My eyes! My eyes! (New UI choices)

[Qzipoun]

Turbine, please hire a someone with UI design experience for a couple days and use them to avoid monstrosities like this:



This makes me want to puke, the color contrast is so horrible. You've got conflicting things going on here. Dark background for the panel, smaller light background for a sub-panel, a horrible red to highlight title/buttons and too light of a border on the buttons. Too many things are going on at once here, call me crazy but if I stare at this my eyes just kind of lose it...

Something's got to go. Just go back to a simple tan background (it's easy on the eyes) and a less mucky red and you're fine. Remove the dark background (use it as 'empty space' not background color) since it contrasts too much with the rest of the UI, and definitely too much with the game world itself (blue sky, colorful areas etc, see top left corner) and please remove the horrible highlight around buttons (this is worse in the new inventory panel, it makes all the icons look very fake)

/Rant Off


Edit: I never knew there was a User Interface sub forum... mods feel free to move this there (Or move here)

[Loromir]

I don't know....looks fine to me. Maybe I just don't have an eye for design like you.

[Bobthesponge]

i kinda like it. if you don't, go get a skin. they are generally free...

[78mackson]

/signed I agree totally with OP.

[Meretrix]

I'm a graphic artist and I think they look great. Its a matter of preference I suppose.

[Failedlegend]

I like the new UI

[Ratnix]

I also don't have a problem with it. It is my understanding you can get different skins, maybe you should try one out or make your own?

[Baahb3]

I like the changes, simple, to the point. I see nothing wrong with it.

[Monroid]

The inventory icons make it look like Runescape though...

[FlyingTurtle]

I agree. Too chunky and garish for my taste. It now looks like one of those old 256 color 80s games with the huge buttons due to horrible 320x200 resolution. I think the previous UI was technically and functionally inferior but aesthetically superior.

[Irinis]

i kinda like it. if you don't, go get a skin. they are generally free...

Skins all need to be updated for the new UI, and I'm not sure Turbine released the skin pack yet.

[smatt]

It's not TOO bad... I think what kills it for me at least are the BRIGHT white outlines and lettering. It's too stark compared to the goldish color and the black... Ya bad scheme...

[ghettoGenius]

Most of the new UI changes dont bother me, but what does bother me is they removed the semi-transparent chat windows' borders. Dont know about you all but I move my guild chat into a separate transparent window towards the top of my screen where it only has some light outlines around the window/button/text field. Now its either all transparent (I mean you cant even see where the text field is) or it has the entire clunky UI border around it. Plus the button is always solid now. Minor things but definitely not an improvement (chat windows in particular) if you ask me.

[systemstate]

I love the new interface. I mean, it's no Pool of Radiance but, it'll do.

[8BitBanger]

Gotta agree with FlyingTurtle.. after just 2 hours playing with it, I'd rather go back to the old Look and Feel with the new functionality.

[Zachski]

I love the new design, actually. It feels... refreshing.

[FlyingTurtle]

(SSI Gold Box Pool of Radiance screenshot)

Yeah that's exactly what I'm talking about.

[Dragonhyde]

TO me the red looks great in some interfaces like the mailbox but seems overkill in others. Would prefer if they could find a way to let pick the colors like they do on the forums.

[Viking707]

I guess I'm in the middle here. I like the reds and I like the textures. I also like the new layout. I don't care for the overstated borders though. If they could tone down the bright borders on everything, the contrast wouldn't be as harsh.

-V

[fuzzy1guy]

The new interface is pretty bad. But it IS an improvement over the old one.

Just need to get around to finding out how to skin the UI and pick new colors i think.. The red has to go.