04-20-2015, 10:56 PM
It's all good. I'm a programmer, not a designer...I wing interfaces and just hope for the best usually.
That being said, regardless of whether something will look improved to a brand new user or not, existing players may find discomfort in change...with the emphasis of "If it's not broken, why change it?". I'm usually one of those people myself....for example look at Google Map's new interface - to me, it's complete garbage and a turn around from what I recall as being perfect before, but people who use it for the first time, comparing to the old are going to think it's more fluid.
The reason i'm working on swapping things with new interface elements is to attempt to give everything a more consistent and attached look, along with setting it up to be more expandable. The old interface, while it has done a great job since the start, is finding some limitations that i'm not equipped to resolve without rehiring the same artist to redo a lot of things. These changes aren't for personal aesthetic preferences, but for the ability to expand/optimize the interface system
That being said, regardless of whether something will look improved to a brand new user or not, existing players may find discomfort in change...with the emphasis of "If it's not broken, why change it?". I'm usually one of those people myself....for example look at Google Map's new interface - to me, it's complete garbage and a turn around from what I recall as being perfect before, but people who use it for the first time, comparing to the old are going to think it's more fluid.
The reason i'm working on swapping things with new interface elements is to attempt to give everything a more consistent and attached look, along with setting it up to be more expandable. The old interface, while it has done a great job since the start, is finding some limitations that i'm not equipped to resolve without rehiring the same artist to redo a lot of things. These changes aren't for personal aesthetic preferences, but for the ability to expand/optimize the interface system