EVE Information Portal

Good god man... why are you taking up half the vertical screen real-estate (the most important in a UI) on such pointless information as how many skills you've trained in each group and a giant head?

You're aware you've left what appears to be about 150px to show the actual *substantial* functional part of the skill queue, right?

The previous (current TQ) layout is _much_ more functional and intuitive.

You've already been shown the way to go about it by player-made mockups, get that list stacked in a vertical single-column down the left hand side, give much more room for the training queue, get rid of that horrible 3-column layout when a table is much more appropriate, especially with all the vertical space you would regain from fixing that godawful skill-type list.

Regards, a frustrated UI designer banging his head on the desk.

Edit:
I apologise if this came across as unduly aggressive, rest assured it's not meant to be. It's more venting frustration, I am concerned that the UI team have maybe gone down the route of "People hated it, let's make minor tweeks" vs re-evaluating if their initial decision on placement was the right one in the first place.

I, personally, feel their initial layout decision was a bad one, and even though tweeks have make it better, it's only gone from "Terrible" to "fairly awful" when they should be aiming for "Great".

I still feel that having the skill categories in the same column as the skills and queue is taking up far too much room. The categories aren't the important part. The skills in the category and the queue itself are what matter. Please, push the skill categories to the side and give us all that extra vertical space to work with in the skills and queue.

Exactly this.

While I realize that I barely log in these days still...

Please enlighten me why are you fixing something that DOES NOT need fixing?
There are plenty of things that do and character sheet isn't one of them.
Frankly I'd say you are making it worse.

plz don't mess with my character picture......

i worked hard to get her in this pose, this lighting. perfectly...

Being able to collapse the character portrait is helpful, but in the skill queue, collapsing the categories removes access to information you need to effectively work with the skill queue (unless you do everything via the search box, but not everybody is that good at typing). It's also a nuisance to have to slide the divider between the skills and queue up and down when you want to go between them.

Moving the categories to the side in a vertical window and giving that extra vertical space to the skills and queue would be ideal.

Thank you for fixing the GLARING Omega Clone symbol into something less in your face to Alphas! :) Very tastefully done CCP!

Good job all. :)

That initial panel with all the groups and icons is likely to be overwhelming to new players (not to mention us veterans). And for what? Is it useful? What purpose does it serve? What's the user need?

The previous comments about how much space it takes up are also dead on. It's prominence suggests importance, when in fact it's the least important part of this screen.

About the icons, and this is painful to say, there are too many. I love cool icons. They are cool. But after a certain threshold you are bordering on creating you're own runic language that no one will use or understand. Personally I think there are too many groups to begin with. Regardless, with that many groups the need for icons, or the practicality of having icons, is severely diminished.

I hate myself for trashing the use of icons. They are cool.

:(

Edit: By first panel I mean the area directly below the profile picture with the skill groups.

I will say! I think this new character UI looks sweet! will look forward to having that on TQ!



PS #formom

I like how pretty it is. Looks nice, shows you what you need to know, and doesn't look like a spreadsheet. Seriously looks sharp.

I am always pro-pretty!