Guild Wars 2

OMG

divine job.
ANet has to see this and get it into the game, these panels are somewhat alot better, than the current versions, especially your redesign of the Hero Panel UI

Orpheal.8263:

OMG

divine job.
ANet has to see this and get it into the game, these panels are somewhat alot better, than the current versions, especially your redesign of the Hero Panel UI

I like some parts, but really don’t like the Hero Panel UI. Way too crowded for my taste. I think there’s way too much images on that screen. I couldn’t even find the weapons at first… The same with the Guild Panel. No need to show images per user, it only takes away readability.

I do like the story journal though and especially the lore journal. There, the images really make sense and make it come alive.

@ Orpheal Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed them. The Hero Panel UI was actually the one that made me start redesigning the UI since moving between the dyes, finishers, armor, wardrobe isn’t fun, especially when you have multiple alts #tyriafashion.

@LadyRhonwyn thank you for the feedback, glad you took the time to take a peak. It’s really hard to design something without having actual player data and a way to test things and I know that not all people will like it, that’s the deal with designs. Also due to the number of annotations present, the UI’s might look a lot more crowded. Thanks again for the feedback and for taking the time to comment.

I like some of your ideas very much!

In general, I am against making every menu into a picture slideshow (I like a certain degree of just lists and tables to quickly be able to view data) but overall it looks very shiny.

I think my favorite thing in your design document is the redesigned guild panel.

I am most impressed with the presentation, too.

Man that’s pretty dope. For all those who would say this needs to be implemented in the game / site, well, there’s like a 0.01% chance of that ever happening, but still, wow, nicely done.

Loved the LFG and Living Story panels.
The Hero is a little bit crowded, but I still kind of like it better than the current one.
The Guild Panel is ok too.
Excellent job overall.

nicely done but the AP request in the LFG is not right .. why not adding class filter while you’re at it like ‘’ no ranger ’’ ? .

This is actually quite beautiful. I don’t expect all of this to be integrated into the game but I surely hope that Arenanet at least takes a leaf out what you made.

This man has SKILLZ, ANet needs to hire you ^^

And whats about all this instant pessimism now about chances of implementation???
Sure is, that chances aren#t that big, that Anet would get this into the game on a 1:1 copy and paste or so, but at least ANet can get some good impressions and inspirations on how to improve significantly the UI fro the whole game.

I’m a person, who says always its better to actualyl SHOW the Devs, how to improve the game, and less talk about it, because by showing a person how you want to get something changed, its alot better and easier to understand for a developer the improvement, than when you just have a plain text concept only in front of you based on player ideas.

So thats why all of this just blew me away.
The redesigns aren’t at all too much crowded, The redesigned version of the OP actually shows exactly all of the most important things, without that you are forced to open up multiple over and underlaying windows just to be able to see all of this info, what the redesigned version here is able to perfectly show you just in 1 SINGLE WINDOW.

Amazing job, would like to see it in game, especially the LFG and LS/story panels!

I love this, it looks so kitten slick, especially the UI portion.

Website is cool too but the meat and potatoes is that UI

I generally like your design, especially the Hero Panel (btw, is it the drop down menu for build templates I see there? sigh guess is never going to happen). Yes, it looks cluttered, but it provides most useful info in one panel while not taking what already exists there.

But I find the guild panel atrocious. All those user pics make it look like an online store or something designed for touchscreen devices. Or both.

I totally like your redesign of LFG though (surely it will be easier to hit those rectangles with a mouse xD).
Well, almost totally. I don’t like the drop down menu for swapping between dungeons, it will require 2 clicks against just 1 now.

All other stuff looks just amazing imo.

The old Hero panel looked much better. The redesigned looks confusing.

I like it. Especialy LFG and Lore sections.

Why wont the links work for me :S

Lore tab! It’s great \o/

Anet please hire this guy

Awsome! Anet should definitly take a look at this great redesign

Too cool to ever be implemented. GJ, but stop wasting your time :/

Being creative is not a waste of time! Not only does this look quite cool (though I felt a little blasted by image overload ankitten ot sure how this would feel in actual game play), but it gave the OP a chance to practice skills.

Thanks for sharing and I hope that ANet takes strong note of your effort.

Good job, looks awesome.
That being said, knowing Arena Net, and the attitude they’ve shown before regarding other great suggestions, don’t get your hopes up.

Gaile needs to print it and immediately carry it over to Mike O’Brien.
I mean it.

Absolutely awesome! ANET HIRE THIS GUY NOW!

hire this person!!!!

Very good design. I especially like that the UI and the Website work together to form a cohesive “vision” for the game as a whole.

Amazing. Hire him now!

Little to cluttered.
But much much better and visual apealing than actual one.
Waiting for dev response

There are some pretty nice changes in this. Personally I have two separate suggestions.

First, can we have a one key command that takes us directly to the equipment page and a separate key command that takes us to the “everything else” portion of the hero panel? It is so annoying when you are counting on those few seconds OOC to switch armor sets and what you get is the last random panel you logged into and the moment is lost.

Second, since you are already putting the trailers in the LS journal can you also put the cut scenes in after we complete the episode?

This is probably how you get hired to work somewhere. Patent these images or something lol!

This is such a stupid nit-pick on an otherwise remarkable job you’ve done – its not classes in GW2, its professions.

This isn’t to take away from work that should absolutely be purchased from you by Anet for immediate consideration. I love the Lore idea, its such a central concept of the game and so much of the content could be pulled directly from the wiki to make it easier to keep up with. Bravo sir. Seriously, bravo!

Farming Flats.5370:

nicely done but the AP request in the LFG is not right .. why not adding class filter while you’re at it like ‘’ no ranger ’’ ? .

Well, people that say that does not know about spotter and frost spirit i guess, however try being a necromancer, often you join a group and before you know it you’re not in that group anymore at all and they all block you

I simply LOVED LFG and Story Journal redesign! It feels so RPG-ish! <3

If ANet put a daily reward for people who do all dungeons and all paths… omg… so much rage. They could lessen the rage by rewarding doing all paths for a single dungeon, or make this weekly so they would have time.

Btw, great ideas! +1

Amazing job, and equally amazing references. Anet should at least look at this project and analyze it.

Maybe the guy who did the previous ui layout will ragequit his job once he sees this and they will have a spot open.

WOW
I only can say that . Anet , please , think about hire this person for redesign the journal and the website . PLEASE

This is pretty spectacular. I especially love the Lore Journal, LFG, and the website redesign.

If a Lore Journal like this was implemented into the game I think it would be amazing. Great job!

I think your design is great and I can see that you put a lot of thought and hours into it. But.. there is always that but It is way way too flashy and I don’t think it fits the game perfectly well. Pictures are everywhere and i don’t think it is a good way for making nice and clean design. Also watch out for your fonts, less is better in most of the cases. Same goes for everything else.

I logged in just to say that you have talent. Good luck in the tough field, I hope you get to utilize that talent of yours.

+1 great job i hope i could see this in the game one day….you sir are very talented

REALLY like this! Great job!

I got linked to this off reddit and I didn’t look at the name I just went right at looking through your art and I was super excited that an Anet developer made this then I noticed you weren’t an employee and I got depressed

This is an amazing job. Hire this man

Gj, this is really impressive.

You must know the “get used” factor it’s extremely important. If you are going to add usability to the UI, you can’t change everything radically. Also, the style of the design should make you know immediately you are in a GW2 website or ingame, being unique, and not similar at all to any other game.

Anyway, the work is good, you could even work for ArenaNet, but is easier when you design with your own tools/software than actually adding that to an existing game.

Hire him, ANet!

Amazing job and wonderful ideas. I really hope Gaile / others take a note of this, the sooner the better.

Very impressive!!!!! Hopefully you can become part of the Anet GW2 team in some way.

Would love to see a dev response on this one!

Hire! Him! Now!

+1 ANet seriously go over this guys suggestions, get the UI people together in a room and have them go over this. And I would seriously suggest that you look at what he’s done with the Story Journal (Very good work there). Also Lore Journal!!!