New Main Menu and User Interface

[Darkness01101]

I think the poll should have had another option: keep the new menu but let’s start evolving/fixing/tweaking it. There might be some who don’t mind the spirit of the new menu and see some potential with it.

It is odd, though – I don’t recall ever seeing threads asking for the Main Menu needed to be revamped in this way I enjoy the enthusiasm by designers/devs to try new things, but I guess regarding UI, this was, personally, probably the least of my worries. I’m still bummed about all the tan and red, and every button being red.

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That said, the animated wipes where menus unfurl feel slow and lethargic – all over; not just main menu. I wish they’d be sped up 2x or 3x, if they must remain. It reminds me of when typing chats in-game and how chats feel laggy/lethargic between moment of hitting [RETURN] key and moment of chat sound/appearing.

• When I click something, I like immediate responsiveness in UIs. Don’t like feeling as though my time is being unnecessarily wasted micro-seconds at a time.

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I admit, I didn’t know I had to go to the gear icon in upper-left now to get to Options until it was pointed out here. Thought they were completely removed from menu and I could only adjust them mid-match, which was odd. Now that I know, not a huge deal… but maybe a little strange to have them under a gear icon now.

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@PilgrimHYR

the UI: the civ select menu’s very unreadable all cap font for civ overview (I remember seeing a thread about it, but can’t find it now)

I think you might have been referring to my post as follows?..

SNEAK PEEK! Age of Empires II: DE November Update!

I kindly request that the font/text on the civ screen be made more user-friendly. It’ll be a bit of a chore to scan through info finding the important info and differences between civs if the font/text choice looks like this (screenshot from the vid). ALL CAPS, no indents, huge letters, lines wrapping, all the same font size, all the same font color, no text formatting (bold, underlines, etc.), and capital letters being virtually the same size as regular letters. It’s a good recipe for a poor …

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@DarkGreyCat

All of these minimalist designs, plaguing websites… are starting to get on my nerves.

you aren’t designing for tablets. This big icons bs needs to stop!

My thoughts exactly:

Let's discuss the new main menu

So much red and tan/gold everywhere. Starting to feel like a Michael Bay film and his obsession with teal and orange. I could use a little more use of color, and not black & white pencil sketches for menu items. Purely subjective, though. It’s so strange, however, how everyone who has done UI design in and since the 2010s have all come to the conclusion together that no colors exist in the rainbow except the two or three they select for their product. I’m all for brand recognition and themes, …

Foxsports and IGN have become websites that are a joke to visit. I don’t do it anymore because of the push to huge graphic tiles and a total word count per page of maybe 15-20. News flash: my 24" widescreen monitor can show more than 20 words per page and actually YEARNS to, lol. I have to [CTRL]+[Mousewheel] zoom out for 75% of web pages these days because their font and images are so huge.

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I’ll also do a shameless plug for my thread suggesting that we should be given options to choose our own theme to use. By giving us some options, it would help please more players → Allow us to choose our own menu theme