Friday, June 26, 2009

Reader UI: Zupa

Hey guys, I recently received an email from a reader named Zupa. He sent me his UI. Some of the things I think Zupa did right is the placement fo grid for his party. Although it is clean which I really like, I feel that the use of Spartan UI is a little too domineering of the screen space. What do you guys think? Do you like spartan UI?

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o126/desarius/wowscreen4.jpg

Zupa is using:
spartanUI
bartender4
sexymap
grid + grid mana bars
miks scolling battle text
quest helper
titan panel
chatmod
yuri's rune watch
satrina buff bars
auracle - check this out if you havent already!
power auras
omen
recount
critline

Think your UI is well developed? Is it a good example of how to make a good interface? feel free to share it, and some day you may just see it here

8 comments:

  1. I don't like SpartanUI exactly for it's dominance. I prefer much cleaner and smaller bars (by bartender), which take about one half of Spartan's on my laptop.
    Also, i never understood concept of placing minimap at the center of the screen. Does anyone really need to look there so often? And it consumes a large chunk of precious space.

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  2. I agree with your opinion on the minimap livercat

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  3. long time reader, first time poster, so here we go.
    party grouping is ok i think (although a dk could only have use of it as a tank).
    spartanUI is really dominating this UI. i also prefer bartender + a nice texture from button facade. has a nice style too, but it appears much cleaner.
    besides this, a would recommend to place rune bar information more on top, otherwise you're a stuck at the bottom of your screen.

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  4. the reason for mvign the minimap to the center is to make less eyemovement. I have a center loaded low UI so that I can see everything very quickly. I am a raid leader so I use my minimap to see where my group is and help direct them.

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  5. What sits at the center of your screen is what you need to focus on the most. In my ui, I set up my raid frames in the center because I mostly play healer toons, and I need to watch health bars all the time (and my healing buttons are below it, so I can also check on the gcd).
    And even when playing as tank or dps, I rarely had the need to see the minimap; I never raidleadered before (I'm usually more like an 'advisor' guy regarding raids), but I rather watch my screen to see where people are positioned than at the minimap.
    If anyone care to know what I'm talking about, that's a ss from my ui: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v450/guinnyn/WoW/WoWScrnShot_061009_222124.jpg (it's a bit old, replaced sexymap with chinchilla, tweaked a bit since then, but the positioning is still the same.)

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  6. I agree with what you guys are saying re: spartan being too domineering of your screen space. It certainly only works for me because I use a widescreen monitor.

    I rather like it though, so my plan to fix it is to switch off it's unit frames altogether and replace them with pitbull.

    As for the runes, I seem to be peculiar among DKs in that I hardly ever look at them, so I put them out of the way. Perhaps I've just become too accustomed to watching cooldowns on the spells themselves... so that's why I have the big spammable buttons on the left, the other's are too tiny to look at during a fight.

    @ Dr.Baegga, Can we see your UI? I'd like to see the button facade texture you mentioned.

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  7. @Guinnyn, what are the boxes in the middle-right, under the buff bars? Is that part of grid and what does it do?

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  8. bluefade, that is decursive in guinnyn's UI, each box is a different party member, when someone gets cursed/poison/etc. they will change to a certain color and you can click them to well decurse them.

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