{"id":1247,"date":"2009-08-13T16:39:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T22:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2009-08-13T16:47:11","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T22:47:11","slug":"co-the-gmail-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2009\/08\/co-the-gmail-interface.html","title":{"rendered":"CO: The GMail Interface"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting article today on how the UI director for Champs Online was one of the designers of the GMail interface. He describes some of the challenges in creating an game interface<\/a> that is quick and easy to use but still provides the info that some folks want to see.<\/p>\n

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There are many times in Champions where I want to give the player every last piece of functionality but I also know that such a thing is detrimental to the overall experience. You get to a crossroads, a certain point when people can no longer find what they\u2019re looking for. Microsoft Word is a notorious example of that crowding of features. It\u2019s an incredibly powerful application but because you have so many features, all the really useful ones can get hidden.<\/p>\n

In Champions Online, or any other game, you have to make sure that discoverability is not so much of a problem that you can\u2019t actually play the game.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Attempts on CoX to add additional info (and additional ways of getting to it) have been a mixed success. Getting something that scales info from the get-go would be pretty cool.<\/p>\n

Of course, I’m also impressed how WoW has had an extensible UI, so that people can add on things to it. I think that’s a great idea, but I don’t believe CO will be set up that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting article today on how the UI director for Champs Online was one of the designers of the GMail interface. He describes some of the challenges in creating an game interface that is quick and easy to use but still provides the info that some folks want to see. There are many times in Champions … Continue reading “CO: The GMail Interface”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-champions-online","category-resources-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}