{"id":297,"date":"2011-03-01T07:15:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T15:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2011-02-23T16:23:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T00:23:27","slug":"how-the-user-experience-of-angry-birds-contributes-to-its-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/01\/how-the-user-experience-of-angry-birds-contributes-to-its-success\/","title":{"rendered":"how the user experience of Angry Birds contributes to its success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across an interesting article recently:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mauronewmedia.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/why-angry-birds-is-so-successful-a-cognitive-teardown-of-the-user-experience\/\">Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience<\/a>. \u00a0It&#8217;s a great discussion how all of its user experience components together have made it such a highly-successful game.<\/p>\n<p>I especially find the discussion of response time to be relevant, not just for game design. \u00a0We often assume that response time should be as short as possible, but that&#8217;s not really true. \u00a0Response time in Angry Birds is used to help you learn how to play the game and correct errors. \u00a0I think that this line is the one that every software engineer should take to heart:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bottom line on how Angry Birds manages response time: fast is good, clever is better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across an interesting article recently:\u00a0Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience. \u00a0It&#8217;s a great discussion how all of its user experience components together have made it such a highly-successful game. I especially find the discussion of response time to be relevant, not just for game &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/01\/how-the-user-experience-of-angry-birds-contributes-to-its-success\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">how the user experience of Angry Birds contributes to its success<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}