EVE Information Portal

While I imagine this might be appreciated by some minority of players (myself included), I would hope that they would focus on other more troublesome areas first. Overhauling bad UI should overtake adding configuration to mostly good UI.

As a counter-point to some of the things being said here (trying to keep it, at least, loosely related to info panels):

1) Don't let us design your game for you. You are the designers. We can tell you want our needs and desires are, but please take that information and lead it where you think it needs to go.

2) The general information panel approach is good. The info panels should contain all the information we need at a glance. If you can make it so that we don't need to keep a window open that's a plus. E.g. placing the mission complete check mark next to the mission in the info panel means that window stays closed.

3) Please revamp and then iterate on the bookmarks and people's system. Right now it's a pretty poor system for keeping track of bookmarks and doesn't take into account the many ways in which bookmarks are used. Sites fall into a limited number of categories, but several categories are heavily used. Exploration sites, safe spots, offices, and mission locations all have different characteristics, but expect for mission sites and to some degree offices, the UI doesn't take that into account. Separating out these concepts into their own systems and then adding them to info panels would be helpful.

3a) Exploration sites have expiration timers and make bad long-term bookmarks, but the one place in the UI where they appear temporarily they also are too short lived. If I change sessions, I lose all the sites I've managed to scan down. Automatic management of exploration site bookmarks would be much appreciated.

3b) My bookmarks are littered with safe spots. Reducing the number of clicks to mark safe spots and travel to them would be much appreciated. If I could make them appear together separate from my other bookmarks and appear in the overview automatically that would be very helpful. I know there are ways to do this already, but reducing the amount of clicks would be better I think.

3c) Please consider adding corporate offices to one of the information panels -- potentially a new corporate panel. This panel could contain information and context actions appropriate to the corporation. Though there isn't that many pieces of information that I think would be useful all the time. Though I'm sure you all could think of something. Corporate offices are one of those long-term, frequently used things.

4) Please don't overuse the new info panels. If you have the option of making a good UI with them, but a great UI with new functionality, I think most of us will wait. Not all UI elements work for everything. The overuse of grids I think outlined this problem well.
In general I see the UI broken up into three categories of UI. Large windows that contain everything you need; chromeless info panels that distill other windows to their most critical data; and finally chromeless twitch interfaces used in combat. These should be very difficult to move accidentally and be operated by either mouse or keyboard -- the latter allowing muscle memory to apply.

5) Not technically an info panel, but please add my effective standing to both the station panel UI (maybe next to the logo) and next to each agent. It would be great to see this information at a glance.
Not every major window will have an info panel and vice versa. And certain things that are now full windows should be changed to pure info panels or pure twitch interfaces (e.g. drones in combat).

awesome

I would like a way to save auto pilot routes please and thank you.

I remembered what I would like to see in my info panels (and my space screen too)! is there a way we can get the option to get rid of those red crosses that we see in space when there are NPC hostiles around, but keep them in the overview? it buggs me when im looking at my ship but the thing that is shooting at me from 30km away is ..... a giant red cross, then i have to zoom in on it to get a good look at it (yeah i know I can get a look at it in my overview but this is an aesthetics question) i understand some people would want the crosses to stay, or allow the option to put them back on the screen after they are taken off. but can we make it an option to have brackets stay in the overview but not appear on screen? including those red crosses?

also when we click the info on an object in space can we get the overview filter info on it? so that we can decide to add or disable it in the overview filters?

Looks great. When is this going live?

It's about time this stuff was fixed. ;)

In the navigation info panel, there are a sequence of colored squares representing the autopilot route. It would be nice if the squares were a different shape (say, a triangle or a circle)) for the first system after a region jump. That way it would be easier to see when your market selection will be different (for those of us who browse the market as they travel). Coincidentally, this would also give folks a heads up on when they might be about to cross into hostile territory and be attacked by faction navies and also on when the skybox will change. Furthermore, this could probably be classified as low hanging fruit.

Yeah, I like to be abvle to see the route in space as well.
But I couldn't really figure out which was the beginning or the end. Could you make it so that when you hover your cursor over a waypoint star in space, a tooltip shows you which one you're looking at?

They look good. I do like the system overview version of the panel (the one that listed the planets/stations etc) and the auto pilot management looks very good

I'm still really hoping that you guys can do something about making the info panel section movable to the right side of the screen. Even the neocom can move! The HUD can be moved anywhere along the top or the bottom of the screen! Every other interface is a movable window! Why can't we move the info panels?