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Some interesting ideas, however restricting themes to only having dark backgrounds with light highlights seems like a silly restriction and may make it difficult for certain users.

Here's one (of several) articles discussing the use of text colours. In addition to technical usability issues is the fact that some users just prefer a dark on light theme rather than light on dark.
http://uxmovement.com/content/when-to-use-white-text-on-a-dark-background/

You should consider providing additional themes including dark on light and potentially lower-contrast options for those that want them.

new style is better and less tiring. also it achieves two goal(simpler and more sci-fi, militaristic looking) at least.

No, I don't like the new style at all! Even after testing it a few times on Sisi.

It looks cheap and tawdry and cold and sterile and impersonal like any fandom f2p game.

And I don't understand why transparency is so damned cool nowadays! I can't read almost nothing regardless if in station or out in the space. The blurry background disturbs strongly. Espacially when the windows are "inactive". Overview/Selected Item and bright nebulas are an awfully combination.
Which sense has an open window if I can't read the contents? Then it's better the window is not open at all.

Minmatar 2 theme looks almost like the Hello Kitty pink.


If you want the new style at any costs, please make the UI switchable old/new style or modable that you can insert the beloved old icons.


Maybe I am too old for this s - stuff.

After screwing around a bit more, I had to make a really crude mockup which might show how I see he game in space now and open the market window for example: http://i.imgur.com/851oTEC.jpg

Is that easily readable and workable with? No.
Is it obfuscating all the information behind the window? Yes.
Is it pretty? One could argue yes.

Also:
Outposts don't have the station serivces which is a known issue.
If you're resizing or moving a window when you either dock or jump through a gate, the brackets showing snapping will remain visible on screen.
The gaps between windows still exist and they don't sit flush next to each other.
There's wasted space in windows which have tabs, screen real-estate is not something people have.
It's impossible to hide the super-bright sun behind an UI element now causing strain on the eyes.
Using the setting "Black" turns anything behind the window monochrome instead of just muting the colours like it should.

There was no general change implied by this decision. Maybe someone noticed though that now it looked inconsistent with the remaining UI and took a felt pen and wrote "use new tab icons from st.pnl 4 ui ovrhaul" on a whiteboard. Someone else looked at it and said - yeah we could do that; made a mockup, distributed it internally and now we have this.

Oh and I looked up "imply", since english ain't not my mother tongue, but it is more of an well implication. It need not mean anything. It might do - or not. Which is really grand, the world would be boring in stark contrast. It's rather grey than black or white.



I'll wait till they roll out the next version as I still believe the tabstrips are way to prominent (to large (mainly in the y dimension), to flashy) till I have anything new constructive to say. As is I can understand people wanting to keep the old UI but if there are no readability or use issues I have no problems switching over - everyone else will jsut have to adapt or unsub I guess. Oh hey same discussion as allways*.




*Hint: If you don't want your game to change play single player.

Maybe new UI is more "fancy" and some people may think that it is "cool" but it is less ergonomic and more pain to eyes.

But at least, Please, Please add option to remove all transparency as it is now on Tranquility.

That's already a thing, just needs support from drivers for it (AMD eyefinity, Nvidia Surround).

Hi there!

Please also consider the size and the position of the icons in each window like Personal Assets, People Places, World Map Control Panel , each tab of the Corporation Window, ... etc. Even that the icons look simpler, it's somehow too much.

So far the new UI looks like teh sex. Good job.

whats the symbol in the bottom right of the first picture?