First attempt at a UI.

[Xionyus]

I've already posted this on another website and I've shown it to my friends that play. I'm getting good feedback so far. Anyways, I've packaged this UI into a ZIP but I'm not exactly sure if I've done it right. I'm wondering if anyone could test it out and tell me what the results are? Or if I could just get any feedback on my UI that would be fine too.

UI: http://i47.tinypic.com/2gsjqkm.jpg

EDIT [03/20/13]:

I've changed and downloaded a couple more addons and I've gotten it to my likings so far. One that isn't shown that I'm using is Aurora.


In the new LFR on my main character.


Wanted to show the skinning of my DBM bars. I downloaded !dbm and edited it a little of my own. I wanted to try and find a skin that would let me use the same border on the dbm icons that I use for my skill icons, but all of them made my WoW crash or just didn't fit in with my UI. :/

I'm using healbot right now for my raid/party frames. I really like the default blizzard UI but it's just not customizable enough. I spent all night looking for scripts that would allow me to change the texture of the bars and found nothing. But I'm content with healbot, after hours of configuration.

Does anyone know how to get rid of the banner on the top left corner of my SexyMap? I've looked and looked through the config but I swear there's nothing there.

I'm also thinking about getting rid of consolidated buffs, even though it's helpful. It's just bulky and doesn't fit in. Unless there's some sort of addon where I can skin it, I'm prolly going to get rid of it.

Any more advice would be helpful.

[Phanx]

Not my style, but here are a couple of non-style-related suggestions:

(1) You should spend some time working on alignment. For example, the top of the unit frames is about 40px from the top of the screen, while the top of the minimap is about 20px from the top of the screen. The top and left of the unit frames are different distances from the edges of the screen. The top of the buffs should line up with the top of the minimap. The right edges of all the things on the right of the screen -- minimap, vertical action bar, boss frames, Recount -- should line up with each other. The bottom edges of the things at the bottom of the screen -- chat text, action buttons, raid frames, Recount -- should line up with each other.

(2) The bar textures on Recount and your cast bar doesn't match the textures on your unit frames, and I can't quite tell whether the boss timer bars match or not due to the screenshot quality, but you should pick one texture and use it everywhere.

(3) Your buffs are missing borders.

(4) You might consider using the same border for your action buttons that you're using for everything else (the black shadow thing) or vice versa (the thin gray line).

(5) The Radar Range window seems kind of randomly placed. You should try to line it up with something, and maybe give it a border, or hide the background.

(6) The white glow on the nameplates is out of place. Maybe try a different TidyPlates skin, or try your hand at customizing whichever skin you're using?

[Xionyus]

Originally Posted by Phanx Not my style, but here are a couple of non-style-related suggestions: (1) You should spend some time working on alignment. For example, the top of the unit frames is about 40px from the top of the screen, while the top of the minimap is about 20px from the top of the screen. The top and left of the unit frames are different distances from the edges of the screen. The top of the buffs should line up with the top of the minimap. The right edges of all the things on the right of the screen -- minimap, vertical action bar, boss frames, Recount -- should line up with each other. The bottom edges of the things at the bottom of the screen -- chat text, action buttons, raid frames, Recount -- should line up with each other. (2) The bar textures on Recount and your cast bar doesn't match the textures on your unit frames, and I can't quite tell whether the boss timer bars match or not due to the screenshot quality, but you should pick one texture and use it everywhere. (3) Your buffs are missing borders. (4) You might consider using the same border for your action buttons that you're using for everything else (the black shadow thing) or vice versa (the thin gray line). (5) The Radar Range window seems kind of randomly placed. You should try to line it up with something, and maybe give it a border, or hide the background. (6) The white glow on the nameplates is out of place. Maybe try a different TidyPlates skin, or try your hand at customizing whichever skin you're using?

1. I noticed that when I first started. I'm usually more nitpicky for stuff like this but my computer is dying and I freeze in LFR when I'm only using WoW and skype. I'll mess around with that later.

2. When I took the SS I didn't mess with the bar. I didn't even know I could change the cast bar on DBM.

3. I installed an addon to border them and it should be fixed.

4. If you're talking about my stance/action bar, then I am using the same border. It's just 'thinner' and the screenshot is bad quality.

5. When I was messing with the addons I wasn't really noticing anything from DBM. I'll mess when them next time I do LFR.

6. I'll try another skin.

If you don't mind me PMing you my final result for more critiquing? And thanks a lot for the post. I appreciate it more than you know.

[Phanx]

Just post it here. I'm not the only person who can look at screenshots and give feedback.

[Clamsoda]

I don't think your UI is bad, necessarily, but I think it needs a bit of work.

1. Get rid of the black bar at the bottom of your screen. It does nothing but draw your eye away from the important aspects of the game, and crowd the screen.

2. Reduce the spacing between units in Grid, and your action bar buttons.

3. Find a better spot for your unit frames. Shadowed UF is a great unit frame AddOn, but you haven't addressed the main issue with Blizzard's unit frames: their position. As it stands, your eyes need to look to every extreme of the screen to ascertain information.

4. You mentioned your computer stutters in raid; get rid of recount. I don't mind damage meters, but they do not need to be showing in combat, and there are several options better than recount. (Skada, alDamageMeter, TinyDPS)

5. Texture consitency! You have different textures between sUF, cast bar, grid, name plates, and DBM.

6. Find some consistency with the spacing of UI elements. Phanx touched on this well.

7. Turn off consolidated buffs.

[Phanx]

Originally Posted by Clamsoda 7. Turn off consolidated buffs.

This isn't really a UI issue, as it isn't controlled by the custom UI or addons, and users are free to enable or disable the consolidation feature as they prefer. In fact, unless the UI ships with the compiler's Config.wtf file, the user's existing preference won't even be touched at all.