CeeUI

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    I started to plaly WOW 2 years ago on US realm, and became keen on addons and UI design soon. This is the very first time I take a try in UI beautification, as my early works are focused on functionality, practicability and efficiency, which are sorta ugly accordingly.
    And this is the UI I designed for my friend Cee, who's playing WOW on Taiwan realm atm. She is a hardcore shadow priest raider, specs into discipline in some combats. This explains why it has two group frame - pefectRaid for dpsing and healbot for healing, and a big blank area between unit frames.
    The primary frame consists of dominos, ouf_Caeliion and satrineBuffFrame. Besides, I have cleaned up useless modules of some addons by persona preference, and have made lots of code modifications to some mods.
    This is it!~

    Comments

  2. dwhite25 ( Member ) - Posted 1 year ago #

    At least it's not a pixel font. :P

  3. Elm ( Member ) - Posted 1 year ago #

    dwhite25 said:
    At least it's not a pixel font. :P

    Which makes me want to see a Chinese one... :p

  4. vivianalive ( Member ) - Posted 1 year ago #

    dwhite25 said:
    At least it's not a pixel font. :P

    I doubt there is any Chinese pixel fonts. There are more than 10K different Chinese Characters, among which 3K plus are frequently used in daily life. While in English, there are only 26 letters.
    Since the UI primarily is traditional and simplified Chinese oriented, I can not use pixel fonts in modules which contains player names and messages from other players.
    Above all, I don't think whether use pixel font or not could determine the quality of a UI. Seriously.

  5. sketchy ( Member ) - Posted 1 year ago #

    edit: dwhite25, I wasn't trying to be rude. But fine, I'll say it nicer.

    vivian, take a deep breath. The pixel font thing was a joke.

  6. dwhite25 ( Member ) - Posted 1 year ago #

    C'mon, sketchy. That's just rude.

    It was a joke, vivian. If you've been following the posts on this site for very long, you'd know that there's a constant debate over whether or not to use pixel fonts in your UI. Most people do it (it's super popular right now), but some top-level UI designers believe pixel fonts are ugly and hard to read.

    I knew Chinese kanji didn't have any pixel fonts, which was what was ironic about the statement. I'm sorry if you took offense to the joke. I was just being ironic.

    I will disagree with you on your last point, though: at high-level UI design, aside from any obvious mistakes like alignment issues or obviously dysfunctional design, font choice is extremely important. This doesn't just go for WoW; this goes for every program, web application, etc. that is ever created.

  7. vivianalive ( Member ) - Posted 1 year ago #

    I confess that the idea behind this UI is pretty simple, which is to keep it clean, minimalistic, everything in right place and targeting the 1440X900 resolution screen, and most of all, raider friendly.
    I changed the textures and frame scales a little bit to make it more consistent and girl-style. However the overall layout is still the same - very basic kgpanels. Anyway, a completely new-carved would be put out before long.

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