True UI development or bodged in extra feature?

[DogTailRed2]

With each new update the extra UI elements seem to grind my gears.

The chat window is clunky and awkward. Pressing C, then escape, then, well you get the picture.
But now with Power Play I just don't understand what the interface is trying to do. It's just clunky and annoying.

Can't we have some better, fluid, UI design please. Visible, Affordance, Accesible, and the other one I can never remember (feedback, that's it).
No hidden meat.

Thanks.

 

[VR Morgan Grimes]

I have to agree, the chat window is just plain odd in the fact that you can do nothing with it until focused on it, you can't even swap tabs and accept voice comms and stuff without focussing on it, why it works differently to the lower two panels I have no idea. The lower panels also need to stay on the page selected when looking away from them, CG info I am talking about you!!!

The system map, galactic map, powerplay and galnet also need to be better integrated, why on earth do they need to be full screen? really destroys the immersion, they should function the same as the station services interface, ie; a nice big window front and centre that still leaves you the ability to look around the cockpit.