If nothing else, it's a decent starting point to give you concepts to research. Not perfect, but still useful

<400ms, rofl. It takes about 45 seconds for my client data to load using Salesforce Lighting. Happens on different computers and at different locations.

It hurts my mind that this has NOT been addressed at my organization where time is extremely important for generating sales.

Probably not much. UX is undersold in a lot of companies because its not a money maker and doesn’t drive sales. You’d think that a good looking game would, but UX gets left on the back burner a lot compared to graphics or other tangible elements.

Working in UX is an underappreciated job. UX is essentially “making the obvious look easy”, but doesn’t realize how easy it can shift from good to bad

Somebody send this to TeamNinja.

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My conspiracy theory is that they made the ux unintuitive on purpose. Everything else got more complicated as well, gun leveling, battle pass, attachment unlocks. They want everything as complex as possible so people need to spend more time online doing basic things.

It was super hard to differentiate between the options though, most looked alike. Colors would have been nice

You sound like an over 40 developer (I’m not far off the same so not an insult). Users understand how to scroll these days and so it instinctively, size is subjective.

Postel's 'law', namely to be flexible in the input you accept but not in your output and feedback, is somewhat related. But it does not fully cover it...

As someone planning on going into ux this is awesome, thanks

A daily painful part of my job. Having developers question every step with smart solutions but solutions that someone’s grandma in Nebraska would never understand. Good UX is for everyone.

Endless Space 2 mastered this. If you look at it, it's kinda bland. If you play it, it's the most useful, smartly designed excel sheet ever that somehow manages to make space feel alive and rich with life.

It’s 3-5 things in active memory. Phone numbers and Social Security numbers are chunked into three sets for this reason. Give a user more than 3 sets of information at once and you risk them having a difficult time as their brain tries to assess priority. Also note that active memory is different than short term memory.

Beautiful is a mighty stretch

IIRC, the phone system was modified in the 90s to allow multiple area codes in one geographic area.

As late as the late 1970s, in some areas, if you were calling a different number in the same exchange, all you had to dial was the last 4 digits. For example, if your number was 555-1212 and you wanted to call 555-1234, all you had to dial was 1234.

The weapon stats bars that are on a scale of what feels like 0-10,000, taking up only 1% of the screen and each attachment seems to change them ±5 out of the 10,000.

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Squinting SO hard to see if damage increases even on my 75" tv.

You already knew it was going to be when you saw the link

That’s a fair assessment. Perhaps they made some slight improvements compared to GTA5. I wonder how bad the menus will be in 6 lol.

Years ago I found R*’s lead UX designer on LinkedIn but was unable to message him. I wanted to see if he know what he was doing, and if so, how much leverage he had in the company to promote proper UX practices. I kinda want his job lol

Your points are definitely fair. I just felt like I adapted to RDR2 rather quickly, whereas I still can't figure out GTA.

The weapon wheel is just OK. Not great, not terrible. The problem is they were trying to go with a certain aesthetic and it makes all of the items incredibly hard to differentiate being that they’re all white on black with no labels. This is far worse a problem in the satchel menu and what not. The weapon wheel was easier since the shape definitions were easier to differentiate.

Yes, that's generally how things shake out. This one seems like a personal project more than anything, but in my experience it's a miracle if you can convince a company that having separate mobile and desktop interfaces is advisable, much less getting buy-in for a fully scaling interface that adapts to screen size.

It's also difficult because outside of fully regular gridded interfaces (which, in all fairness, this site is), there are diminishing returns once you hit desktop size. And user flows can be interrupted or the false bottom effect (where there is content beyond the bottom of the screen, but the user doesn't realize it's there because what they can see cleanly cuts off at the bottom of the screen) can come into play if an interface is designed to scale with screen size.

Yep lmao! Those, and various other psychological or design tricks to manipulate people into doing or not doing something the company/product/designer wants are called "dark patterns".

Yeah, it's anecdotal but it was a nice story.

11+ if you include the country code.

I always thought the weapon wheel on RDR2 was well designed, for how many items you have available to use.