The Thinking Behind UI Design / UX in Odyssey
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This, its actually worse on controllers or using a straight up hotas.
To give you an example, before i could exit from a menu with my hotas by like 2 clicks, now, its about an 8 button hop.
Filtering also is a horrible thing now, and if im correct you cant actually filter based on multiple things anymore.
Actually he is wrong.
for 1.5 years i play in parallel on XB with controller and on PC with kb/mouse and Horizons UI was dead perfect. No issues whatsoever
Here comes EDO, and the UI is a mess. This falls on the team not on the devices aimed for.
And let me tell you that the tile UI model is not as good for controllers as someone may imply. I have had no issues with carriers UI in Horizons using the PC KB/M, but on XB navigating those tiled buttons is not quite a pleasant experience, sometime requiring extra clicks.
If you think the Horizons UI is anything close to perfect you need to get out more.
Try counting how many button presses it takes to request docking.
Compared to what we have now?
Oh, but it is.
Things started to get less perfect when they introduced the uneven tiled interface for carriers and when they altered the symmetry of the buttons in the right panel making them into unevenly arranged tiles. None of those changes made UI navigation using a controller easier, but those changes are not as intrusive if you use a mouse or a touch screen.
bUt NuMbeRs ArE hArD tO rEaD!
This is a game involving science fiction and for whatever reason, UI design continues to shift towards something that wants to move further and further away from showing defined values.
You know what the tile UI reminds me of? The interface on these "smart" tvs. Have to use a remote to navigate and I don't like them much.
I don't post here much as I much rather prefer to play Elite instead but the Odyssey UI/UX changes are a DISASTER. What the hell F-dev? It's clear that you have done zero or near-zero design workshops with users which is a cardinal sin in revamping a products interface. A pretty UI is not UX, and the user experience of the system maps and galaxy maps is a train wreck. Information tucked away, too many clicks, too many mouse movements (thanks now I need to use the mouse?!). If you fix nothing else, please, fix the UX
Perfectly put! Thanks for coming and posting! Nobody asked for any of this just improve some of the deficits like bookmarks for example
As an off-topic sidenote on this: no, not in aviation. Touchscreens in aviation are the past.
A lot of airlines are switching back to HDDs with programable softkeys. For the same reason why a number of military forces never even adopted them: they work great under stable conditions, but when things really go wrong, the aircraft might be shaking, the crew might be exposed to several g, etc. In such a case, touchscreens require noticeably more effort to use than the older control elements. Which is not what you want during such an emergency situation.
Why couldn't they just add a few requested features to the existing Horizons UI? Why did they have to needlessly replace a great UI?
Someone decided this was necessary and someone OK'd the final design. That's bothersome.
Hmm... reading is hard, it seems. All i wrote and what you quoted is that i before people told me better, i thought it was because of the design being made with a controller in mind. So, if i say that i formerly thought it was due to it being designed for controllers, i am scapegoating them? Interesting logic.
3. THe UI was outsourced to a third party company with a list of user stories to fulfill. ow it got signed off on is another story.
Idea of "press and hold" is not very good.
It can be useful if all my 102 buttons already assigned and I still want assign 103rd action. But this is obviously not that case.
Now let's consider I want to share 20 wing missions staying on my legs... for each mission I need to bring up the wheel (press and hold), then couple clicks to open transaction tab.
Seems that could be done easier and may require less clicks.
FD, please stop adding new clicks and focus on reducing them instead to allow user make things faster. And I don't mean assigning shortcuts to every possible action, I am about more user oriented interface.
Thanks!
Oh... I missed the sarcasm. sorry it was late at night and I was exhausted (both in dealing with odyssey launcher and a screaming kid) when I wrote that previous post. Gotcha now.
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No consideration needed here. Based on all I’m hearing, if they backport these UI changes to Horizons I’m out. I have wrist tendinitis and 2x-3x more clicking is a non-starter. FD, mess up your FPS all you want, but leave my space sim alone.
They obviously don't have a clue how to design a modern and intuitive Interface. They released the '1996-Paint-Guy' on this job.
Really a shame when you think about that it is 2021, a time with uncountable good designed Apps for your phone.
The Galaxy Map for example, is a lot better in Horizons from a Design perspective. Everything important is centered, and not splattered across the edges like it is now with Odyssey.
For me, Odysseys UI Design is a major step back to what we had in Horizons. It's rediculous..
Really a shame when you think about that it is 2021, a time with uncountable good designed Apps for your phone.
The Galaxy Map for example, is a lot better in Horizons from a Design perspective. Everything important is centered, and not splattered across the edges like it is now with Odyssey.
For me, Odysseys UI Design is a major step back to what we had in Horizons. It's rediculous..
You must be joking…t