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I've tried. I've really tried to adjust to the blue .. monochromatic UI buttons and they just leave me with a bad impression.

The pretense that the human mind can more quickly identify monochromatic icons over colored ones is bollocks. I can find no such studies that substantiate these claims. And in fact to the contrary.

Change for the sake of change is not necessarily a good thing and can often have negative results with users.

After days and days of interacting with the new UI on SISI, I've (re)learned which icons are which. but my opinion still stands .. they're dry and lifeless and there was no call or reason to be changing them.

This is my opinion for what its worth and given the fact that CCP will do what CCP wants to do. I feel that a single voice won't change the course of their design teams, ( HiRez texture threadnaught ) but I had to place my vote next to others in hopes that it might.

Would be nice to see a "vote function" on the forums .. be interesting to not only see the outcomes of popular issues like this but also CCP's reactions or lack thereof.

exactly.
new UI looks awful

No, it doesn't look cheap and lifeless. Minimalism is clear, highly usable and efficient, born out of decades of UI development. Flat UIs are not a design fad, they are natural evolution and a welcome departure from faux 3D and superfluous gimmicks.

Aang? is that you

You want to make one of the largest and longest awaited changes to EVE's UI. Implement a damn switch character button on the escape menu that takes you back to the character select screen instead of us always having to quit game and boot it right back up from the launcher again just to get to a different character.

Many MMO's already have this feature the day they come out. So why is it that EVE doesn't yet?

In Summary: Just 3 words... Switch Character Button.

I can understand the need for evolution but:

1. The new icons are hard to understand as they are not suggestive enough.
2. The icons graphic needs to be more alive and not brought down to a so called theme.
3. The names on the overview tabs are light chars on light background...not a good choice.

Like others said, i hope there will be a possibility to choose between old or new theme & icons.

Thx.

"Minimalism is clear, highly usable and efficient, born out of decades of UI development"

okay - you've convinced me .. won me over.. NOT.

I don't care what affectations you put to it .. it sucketh.

And I'm not talking about "fake wood grain trim on a car". There is nothing wrong with the current iconic depiction of functions that CCP has in game. I've seen no requests for flat, monochromatic, lifeless icons because its easier to select. really ?? ... at night but NOT last night !

And yes .. like everything flat and cheap, its a fad.

But alas I fear that the decision has already been made for whatever reasons and all this is just palaver.

As a follow up on my previous post to this thread:
today I saw in an old elevator what I meant with retro button design.
Here's a side by side of the elevator buttons with the "new UI" buttons:
http://imgur.com/EqPblG3
There you go.
Sorry for the bad quality I only had my mobile at hand...
Edit:
I got the chance to take some better pictures of the elevator buttons, it makes it even more obvious:
http://imgur.com/6ZWHx5L

my 2cents

I read the first 20 pages, and most points I have were already mentioned before.

Generally I like where this is going, even if it's not a huge step and needs more tuning. But many small steps also get us somewhere :)

What I'd like to see as improvements:

- Neocom and Station Icons need a little bit of color for easier differentiation, as they are now they're bland and boring (but the iLife generation will probably love them)
- More scaleable UI and/or font sizing, 90%/100%/110%/125% is not enough
- Adaptive transparency that darkens the window when for example a sun is behind it? If that should already be the case - didn't work well on Sisi, overview was unreadable with light behind it.

And points a share with BlitZ Kotare
- Pinning (make them unmovable) of windows WITHOUT making them more transparent (that's why the current setting doesn't cut it). I want to fix my windows so they don't get moved if I don't hit the very slim scroll bar correctly.
- Save/Load of screen layouts and Lord Maldorors suggestion of hotkey switching between layouts
- Function to let me position all screen elements (like messages positioning) whenever I like, why do I have to target stuff to be able to move the lock icons? Get a WoW trial and check out how they did it , it's the one thing they did really better :)

And one point that someone else - don't remember who, sorry - mentionend, augmented reality! What if we'd for example get information popping up for close or selected objects. Say you're close to 2 roids, show the type, mass and distance. Select that far away bogey? Display shiptype, distance, speed, angualar velocity and whatnot. Same if you're in a dogfight, maybe show info for all locked and selected targets, on screen, maybe with a small underline that's dragged to the object? now THAT would be a HUGE STEP FORWARD.

King Fu, why bother just spouting what is in the blog.
New UI looks cheap, flat, lazy, colorless and really quite boring + not suitable for me with even a slight vision impairment.

Yes I am just 1 person, who cares - but how many others with vision problems have dedicated years to eve, to now find our ability to play is further reduced by a development change.


Flat UI's are a fad, it is called natural evolution for a reason - It will keep changing - What is vogue now will be but a memory in the future. Problem is CCP is behind the curve to start with, so any changes that are put in place now will be it for a long time, whether right, wrong, good or bad, players will be stuck with them.

When recently shopping for a new phone, I chose not to go with "the modern look". It is dull and boring and for me, hard to distinguish what is what.