Reader UI of the Week: March 15 - 30
by Paul Sherrard 
Apr 4th 2007 at 8:28PM
This edition's UI is, in my opinion, pretty good looking. It's clean and it looks like all the mods have been tweaked in their settings to look as though they belong to a coherent whole.
Zodak of Dark Iron provides an explanation of his UI is as quick and clean as the setup itself:
My UI goal is to simply display everything necessary in a straightfoward manner. Minimalism with the most pertinent information shown as possible without creating clutter. I've also focused a lot on maximizing my widescreen display.
The mods we can see include:
- FuBar
- EEpanels
- SWstats
- agUnitFrames
- Bartender3
- Prat
- Squeenix
- SimpleCombatLog
- Buffalo
What do you think of Zodak's setup? What I want to see from you in submissions for the next edition are some really WACKY UI setups. Let's see how outrageous you can get! Maybe we can put together a cavalcade of the weird, the cluttered, the unusable!
Show us what you got by submitting to: readerui@gmail.com
Filed under: Reader UI of the Week
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
E Apr 4th 2007 9:50PM
Ah,another Charcoal expatriate, I see. :-)
jetsfan80 Apr 4th 2007 10:18PM
his ui looks like shit its confusing as hell
Shawn Apr 4th 2007 10:45PM
It looks like to me that it is basically Spartan UI which I started using a couple months ago. I really like it for getting crap out of my way and consolidating information. Plus it uses a lot of Ace2 stuff.
You can check it out at: http://antipersonnel.org/spartan
Baluki Apr 5th 2007 12:22AM
I really don't understand why people like to block off the lower third of their computer screens. And the rest is a jumbled mess.
I've yet to see any of these things that actually improves upon the default UI.
Longday Apr 5th 2007 1:53AM
What is the user interface that has portraits appear like they do in WC3 (in moving 3D)? I want that one.
Poddo Apr 5th 2007 1:59AM
I'd like to know what skin you are using for SWstats...
dotSeed Apr 5th 2007 4:41AM
I'm going to have to agree #4. This UI is nothing special and is a jumbled mess. There's no flow. Everything is heaped together in the bottom third. It proves the point that a *vast* amount of users whilst thinking they know better than Blizz's UI designers, they don't.
(And this is *coming* from a UI designer.)
E Apr 5th 2007 7:21AM
@4. The reason is to maximize screen viewing. Unless you remove items from your UI (map, buttons, buffs, etc) they're going to take up screen space. What the submitter (and I) have done is consolidated all of that screen space (that I'm going to have no matter what) into one portion of the screen, where it doesn't obscure the game. The alternative is to have buttons covering up your view, which is a fine choice I guess but not one I prefer.
Odas Apr 5th 2007 10:58AM
@5 - I believe that's FuBar
Live Apr 5th 2007 10:57AM
@5 Longday, Xperl will do that for you but after about 30 mins I found it so distracting I had to turn it off and make it into static frames.
Dracula Jones Apr 5th 2007 11:23AM
Terrible use of screen space. The original UI is designed very well. Just use Titan to scale the UI down to 70% and clutter is no longer an issue.
Flit Apr 5th 2007 12:43PM
What about that mail up in the corner, showing he has 6 new messages and has read 0 of em. What mod is that? IS there a separate mod for just that functionality?
stunrunner Apr 5th 2007 5:01PM
@5. Yes it is Xperl. As Live said, it may be a bit distracting at first. (Sometimes I thought a mob was in my peripheral vision) But I love it now. Great addon.
Ahoni Apr 5th 2007 3:32PM
@12 Thats a FuBar plugin called MailFu I think. You can find a big list of FuBar plugins at http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=4571
Tanick Apr 21st 2007 11:25AM
How did the user bind the shift+numpad keys? I haven't been able to get around the fact that Windows automatically disables numlock when you press shift, so shift-Numpad-4 binds as left arrow, or shift-numpad-1 binds as home, for example. It also makes it impossible to bind shift-numpad-5 at all.
Anyone know any workarounds to this??