{"id":327,"date":"2007-03-26T17:09:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T16:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=327"},"modified":"2007-05-30T08:42:34","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T07:42:34","slug":"juicy-using-game-design-to-improve-the-email-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/03\/26\/juicy-using-game-design-to-improve-the-email-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Juicy: Using Game Design to improve the Email Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

During GDC I played Peggle<\/a>, and I picked up the design term juicy<\/em> from Chaim Gingold<\/a>: A juicy interface is one that gives excessive amounts of feedback for all of your actions – particle effects (you can’t have too many), halos, sounds, things that glow, bounces, echoes, and so on. Juicy interfaces are usually incredibly satisfying<\/em>, and it is one of the things that PopCap excel at creating. Juicy interfaces are generally quite addictive, in the positive sense.<\/p>\n

So I realized that my email program for years has been set up to make me addicted to the wrong thing: There is a bell when a mail comes in, which gives me your old variable interval reinforcement<\/a> “ah, yes, that’s the stuff”-feeling. So I get addicted to checking my mail<\/em>, which is completely unproductive.<\/p>\n

I want to be addicted to replying to mail<\/em>, so I removed the sound for when mail comes in and I’ve set up a sound for when I send an email. Now, sending a mail is much juicier than it used to be, and my email experience is much better.<\/p>\n

Technically, I would like the mail program to provide extra feedback for when I reply to a mail vs. sending a mail (can’t see how to do that in Eudora). Why not particle effects, halos, sounds, things that glow, bounces, echoes?<\/p>\n

I want a really juicy email experience.<\/p>\n

[Update: I now realize that Kyle Gabler, Kyle Gray, Matt Kucic, and Shalin Shodhan discussed juiciness a while ago on Gamasutra<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During GDC I played Peggle, and I picked up the design term juicy from Chaim Gingold: A juicy interface is one that gives excessive amounts of feedback for all of your actions – particle effects (you can’t have too many), halos, sounds, things that glow, bounces, echoes, and so on. Juicy interfaces are usually incredibly … Continue reading “Juicy: Using Game Design to improve the Email Experience”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}