tomvlk
commented
7 years ago Thanks for your feedback @TheLongLife. I will come back with some of my opinions about your points later if you don't mind. I will let others also read this and make action points of it. I already agree on some points I can tell. Again, thanks for your opinion about the UI, it helped us already moving in the right direction. We only need to finetune it now, and make it better, some things like you mention in your color point, is still something that needs to be reworked eventually (removed and replaced by something else that makes it compare pretty easy).
TheLongLife
TheMaximum
Suggestion:
Hey, I see that you've updated the UI and I'm glad to see that you used my idea :) :+1:
Looks good but I think that with few small changes and tweaks it could look even better.
When I was making that UI example I had in mind UI that FAST controller had, which was really simple and nonobstructive, which in my opinion is the most important thing when it comes to game UI/overlay.
FAST controller achieved that by having small collapsible widgets and not many colors...even the nick colors were white.
Expansion controller however dealt with that problem in a smarter way...being able to hide the records panels and show them only when you press tab. It would be really cool if you could implement toggle option for that.
Here are few things that you can change/tweak:
1. Unbalanced widget sizes: Map info and server info widgets at the top are unnecessarily bigger than the records widgets and the records widgets are a bit too small thus making them look unbalanced.
2. Readability: Few things are affecting this:
Size Especially the size of the records panels which are a bit too small. By making map info and server info widgets a bit smaller you can make records widget a bit bigger (in height) and also you can consider changing the place of the map duration timer (I've seen they moved stock UI parts on other controllers) which would give you even more space for local records widget.
Color I think that it's a bit too colorful thus somewhat distracting and in some cases affects the readability. Take this screenshot that you posted for example http://i.imgur.com/HktXCHH.jpg Look at the red dedimania records...they are hardly visible. Some nicks are also hardly readable in some situations. That's why I mentioned that FAST had all the text in white, it makes the text most readable in most cases. You can probably use some really bright/neon colors to make it really readable but that would make distracting in my opinion. I'd suggest using either white or colors with a lot of white in them to make it more readable.
Font It's maybe a bit too bold? Using some sharper font would make it look cleaner and also easier to read. In my example image, I used: Roboto
3. New checkpoint tracker widget looks kinda out of place next to that stock checkpoint widget.
4. Record background fields should maybe always be on the screen even if there are no records. Looks kinda weird to have the gap between the dedis and the live records.