{"id":18838,"date":"2019-11-04T16:57:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T00:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/?p=18838"},"modified":"2021-03-13T13:32:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T21:32:46","slug":"the-fifth-flavor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/the-fifth-flavor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fifth Flavor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>While the standard flavors of salty, sweet, sour, and bitter are obvious to us and easy to experience, the fifth flavor\u2014 umami\u2014is ineffable. It\u2019s the salience of parmesan cheese, anchovies, dried tomatoes, fish sauce, and dashi. Though it can be oversaturated and overused, umami is an essential taste modifier that makes the sum of its parts stronger when it\u2019s properly used. <\/p><p>Animation plays a role similar to umami to elevate good design to a more satisfying experience.  <\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designbetter.co\/animation-handbook\">Animation handbook<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the standard flavors of salty, sweet, sour, and bitter are obvious to us and easy to experience, the fifth flavor\u2014 umami\u2014is ineffable. It\u2019s the salience of parmesan cheese, anchovies, dried tomatoes, fish sauce, and dashi. Though it can be oversaturated and overused, umami is an essential taste modifier that makes the sum of its&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[1028,59,1017,101],"class_list":["post-18838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookmarks","tag-animation","tag-design","tag-quote","tag-ux"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}