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[Prinz Eugn]

Well, I would recommend :

Vox Product team have some good insight : https://twitter.com/VoxProduct

Creative Bloq share some excellent articles and interview with designers : https://twitter.com/CreativeBloq

Smashing Magazine is a temple for every web & digital designers : https://twitter.com/smashingmag

Geoffrey Dorne is a french designer who put his focus on the user when he create something, his brand is called humans & design : https://twitter.com/GeoffreyDorne (yeah, it's in french)

Designer News Layervault is also a good start : https://news.layervault.com/

Reddit/r/Web_design too : http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design

And I would also recommend some collections from medium :

mobile culture : https://medium.com/mobile-culture

design / UX : https://medium.com/design-ux

User Experience Research : https://medium.com/user-experience-researche

Product design : https://medium.com/product-design

And some articles I liked by the past from medium too : https://medium.com/@JuanGGZ/has-recommended

@Stormtrooper: I'm not sure to understand your question, sorry. :-/

You mean for the first picture I've posted, Halo 4, or the second one ?

That's a start I guess, but I mean like an introductory article or two for beginners, not collections of articles that require some knowledge of the subject area to decipher.

Maybe like this?: http://dev.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ui-design-for-developers-introduction--active-9921

I don't know if that's a good article or not, but that's more of what I was thinking of (because I'm not going to sort through 564 articles to find a good starting point).

 

[Ora]

UI designs don't mean much if the game is bad. Make good game 343.

 

[Ragnarok Flames]

Yes because people don't have the right to criticize UIs unless they've made UIs.

Criticizing a book? Write your own book, otherwise shut up.
Criticizing a movie? Make your own movie, otherwise shut up.
Criticizing Halo 4? Make you own game, otherwise shut up.


I can't wait to see your awesome multiplayer maps.

The only criticism they gave was I dont like this, or "learn about X and Y".

Its not just my opinion that the maps for Judgement were terrible, so climb out of my ass.

 

[Juan]

That's a start I guess, but I mean like an introductory article or two for beginners, not collections of articles that require some knowledge of the subject area to decipher.

Maybe like this?: http://dev.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ui-design-for-developers-introduction--active-9921

I don't know if that's a good article or not, but that's more of what I was thinking of (because I'm not going to sort through 564 articles to find a good starting point).

Oh okay.

Yep, this article is a good start, really. Tutsplus is always a good start for beginners, they write and explain things very well, I started with them when I was younger. ^^

In fact, once you've learned the basic things, you read other articles on the web, you try to focus on things like "How a user read a web site, an mobile or tv interface", "how to use a font", "how the information hierarchy works", then you add more knowledge to your vision.

But I don't have a perfect article for beginners. :-/

The only criticism they gave was I dont like this, or "learn about X and Y".

Its not just my opinion that the maps for Judgement were terrible, so climb out of my ass.

It could be a pleasure to critic what you have made. But it would take time. Lot of time. And I'm not sure you would be pleased by everything I could say.

But yeah, why not. I will take my time. Could you remind me what you made ?

 

[StalkerUKCG]

It could be a pleasure to critic what you have made. But it would take time. Lot of time. And I'm not sure you would be pleased by everything I could say.

But yeah, why not. I will take my time. Could you remind me what you made ?

I'd welcome you to do me. See above posts

 

[Ragnarok Flames]

It could be a pleasure to critic what you have made. But it would take time. Lot of time. And I'm not sure you would be pleased by everything I could say.

But yeah, why not. I will take my time. Could you remind me what you made ?

i could say the same to you. remind me What you have made?

 

[Juan]

i could say the same to you. remind me What you have made?

You could not because I don't have posted Halo UI. You feel offended because I said you create picture from photoshop without really think about it ?

Less clutter, direct to the info. Safe zone friendly.

So first, think I'm a casual gamer who know nothing about Halo, and we won't talk about the art direction, just usability.

Who is the leader ? Why is he not highlight ? I mean, I'm a noob, I don't know the first player on the list is the leader of this game, and he has the hand on the lobby.

Why do you put "Team : on" on the left when even a noob could see there are two teams on the right (the colors help) ?

Hunt ? What is that ? Is this the name of the map ?

Settings ? Is it about the setting of the game or the setting for the player I am, like my personnal informations & cie ?

Quick question, Party is for the lobby or to see my friend list (yeah, I don't use Halo, but I know at least how a Xbox One works I guess) ?

Weekly news : Do you really need this in a lobby ? Could be more usefull from the start of the game, like Battlefield 4 made it, don't you think ? (Even if I dislike update in a interface, it was a good idea in Halo 2/3/Reach because it was when I was waiting in a matchmaking lobby, so I had something to read).

Why should I focus on weekly news when it's all about the custom game I will play ?

 

[Mistel]

Juan you do know that matchmaking has no leaders?

 

[Chettlar]

Settings ? Is it about the setting of the game or the setting for the player I am, like my personnal informations & cie ?

Um...it explicitly says game settings. Even I got that it had to do with the game. Plus, when I look down below it I can see things like "score to win," which obviously has to do with the game itself. I got this part immediately.

The rest of your points are interesting, and I'm glad you took the time to put them down. I'm kinda sorta working on a design myself.

 

[Zeouterlimits]

I believe Juan was doing a good role play of the casual illiterate player.

 

[Juan]

Juan you do know that matchmaking has no leaders?

Ahahah, yeah, my bad, now you said it, I should have noticed this is a matchmaking lobby. You see, even from a noob, I can't notice something write in big. Why ? Because I am too confident about what I trust, not what I see.

Forget my point about the team leader Stalker, sry for this one.

@Chettlar : Yeah, I was talking about the button setting under the game setting, but that was when I thought it was a custom game lobby.

Other thing are about column and gutter, padding and margin, but that's totally not appropriate for this picture, because it's a WIP I think and you don't use a grid to build it.

@FUNKNOWN iXi: I laughed way too hard.

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

He is the Juan that can save us, believe.

 

[Mistel]

He is the Juan that can save us, believe.

Needs a harmonica and a revolver to make wasteland drifter chief a reality.

 

[Chettlar]

Other thing are about column and gutter, padding and margin, but that's totally not appropriate for this picture, because it's a WIP I think and you don't use a grid to build it.

I...guess I don't know what this means. What's grid and gutter in reference to the picture refer to? Same with the others as well. Are you talking about how things are set up?

 

[RoyalLaFlame]

I would do something like this, it's just a Paint structure I made. Nothing fancy:

1. "Mode" on "Map" with bigger letters and right above it the settings of the match (but not the Team:On - theres no need for it). There's no need to make it all big, just the mode and the map we're playing on.

2. In the "Settings" box I would put 2 options: "Options" and "My Spartan". Usually people go to take a look at their spartan or change something before the match so that needs to be on the screen in my opinion.

3. Back, Party and Select.

4. Players with a little icon on the host. When scrolling through the players I would do something like a file archive if you know what I mean.

5 .I would drop the blue background. Use the map image as background without the blue transparency. People usualy associate the name with an image so it's really important and making it bigger and subtle as a background image would be different.




Just my opinion, I'm no designer.

 

[Ora]

Drop the UI completely, embrace Kinect.

 

[belushy]

If 343 does keep the baseball card theme for Halo 5, the only thing I ask is to add in a HaloGAF Ultimate Team mode similar to the ones in Madden and Fifa.

Imagine opening up your starter deck and getting a Tashi card...

 

[Speedy Blue Dude]

Drop the UI completely, embrace Kinect.

It's for the best.

 

[Tashi]

If 343 does keep the baseball card theme for Halo 5, the only thing I ask is to add in a HaloGAF Ultimate Team mode similar to the ones in Madden and Fifa.

Imagine opening up your starter deck and getting a Tashi card...

I'd sign it for you as long as you don't put it on eBay.

 

[heckfu]

It's for the best.

I'm not so sure you're even making sense anymore. I don't understand.

 

[Fracas]

It's for the best.

I'm still pretty sure you're a fake persona belonging to a Microsoft PR rep.

 

[aHebrewMenagerie]

I'm still pretty sure you're a fake persona belonging to a Microsoft PR rep.

He's the anti-thesis of CBoaT

 

[Karl2177]

I'm still pretty sure you're a fake persona belonging to a Microsoft PR rep.

 

[RoyalLaFlame]

That pic Karl.... that pic. I'm in tears...

I'm sorry Speedy

 

[Fracas]

dead

 

[xxjuicesxx]

about time that dropped.!

 

[Duji]

The only criticism they gave was I dont like this, or "learn about X and Y".

Then there's no reason to use the idiotic phrase "put up or shut up" if it isn't the idea you're trying to convey.

and lol @ that poster.

 

[DeadNames]

Holy shit, GSO speedy.

Any leaked/official halo 5 news? I saw those "leaked" pics and the hype train started a tiny bit.

 

[Ora]

There it is.

Amazing.

 

[Fracas]

Wait do you guys just make these in your free time or something? Is there a hard drive somewhere with hundreds of these?

 

[Karl2177]

Wait do you guys just make these in your free time or something? Is there a hard drive somewhere with hundreds of these?

You tell me.

EDIT: I'm just gonna say that the Tawpgun Halloween one is my favorite, but you gotta know some chat logs for it to be as funny as it is.

 

[aHebrewMenagerie]

Might as well drop these;

 

[Fracas]

wat

 

[Ora]

Booooooooooooooooo

 

[Ghazi]

Choo choo

 

[User 73706]

Aspect ratio is off(2000x1100 at some weird non-standard dpi). Not a clear text standard. I don't know if anyone remembers this(and my google-fu is failing me), but MW2 used something like 3 different fonts and the UI was all over the place in what it was trying to tell you. This is the same.

I'm surprised you were the first to point it out - I worked at 2000x1100 to get everything to properly align in Photoshop's pixel grid and forgot to remove the negative space after.

I'll try and have a revision out tonight. Thanks for the explanations, guise.

 

[DeadNames]

I thought We Bought a Zoo was Kevin James?

 

[Syphon Filter]

After Judgement I don't think Gears can ever make a comeback sales wise sadly. Halo I think can since most are willing to give it a chance but Judgement died....soooooo fast.

Judgement was a spin off by another developer. Of course Gears can make a comeback sakes wise. Now under Black Tusk and not PCF which people hated and on top of that they got Rod back which was a surprise. Getting Rod for Black Tusk was a good idea.

 

[kittens]

Might as well drop these;

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BestsvgCYAA5Pe8.jpg[IMG]

[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BeodQs4CIAA7NHI.jpg[IMG][/QUOTE]
Making a meme of yourself ain't the same.

 

[Ora]

Making a meme of yourself ain't the same.

But he's Homestruck kid, that's a zoojoo on the posters. He's banned remember?

 

[Ghazi]

I thought We Bought a Zoo was Kevin James?

You're thinking of "Zookeeper"

 

[DeadNames]

You're thinking of "Zookeeper"

Ahhh, thanks boss. I knew he was in a movie that had to do with zoos.

 

[Speedy Blue Dude]

I'm not so sure you're even making sense anymore. I don't understand.

I'm still pretty sure you're a fake persona belonging to a Microsoft PR rep.

That one was actually a joke. I was continuing his bad sarcasm/joke. BUT!!!!

Haha holy shit who made this. XD

 

[aHebrewMenagerie]

Making a meme of yourself ain't the same.

It was HGS that did em, i just passed them on.

But he's Homestruck kid, that's a zoojoo on the posters. He's banned remember?

What's A slutty poison?

 

[Ghazi]

That one was actually a joke. But!!!!!


Haha holy shit who made this. XD

Karl did...

 

[Speedy Blue Dude]

Karl did...

Haha, okay. Wondering since it seems to have been around for a while (based on these post), and I've never seen it. Assumed Karl was just the messenger. Nice job Karl, I laughed.

 

[Ora]

What's A slutty poison?

Oh that was my OG acct.

 

[Ghazi]

Oh that was my OG acct.

lol

 

[Plywood]

that is all

 

[aHebrewMenagerie]

Oh that was my OG acct.

lmao