Such great work, ++++++

The clan feature seems neat.
I really wish they could bring the speed navigating through profiles, etc to the speed it was at for the first few months. It's getting a little slower every day it seems like.

FrodaN

754 Posts

March 25 2011 21:20 GMT

#42

Everything looks really solid! Some features would probably not be updated (tournaments/events) as frequently as we want. Also "Join clan channel" means you have to register your clan under battle.net settings which could be a huge administrative hassle. Other than that, I like the direction you're going with the chat channel feature and web browser!

biggestnoob

35 Posts

March 25 2011 21:52 GMT

#43

I love it, great job man. You should teach Blizzard developers how to develop games.

Your suggestions are just amazing and just what it needs, great job.

Bearrorist

United States26 Posts

March 25 2011 22:03 GMT

#44

I really like the most of it, though I would think most TL users would be more comfortable tabbing out? I could be completely wrong there.

The tourney idea is really great IMO also

Roxy

Canada753 Posts

March 25 2011 22:16 GMT

#45

everyone should go over to SC2 Forums and thumbs up this!

Link for the Lazy

Ftwpker

United States165 Posts

March 25 2011 22:20 GMT

#46

Nice Job!! Really Innovative. Only thing I'm doubtful on is the web browser inside the game. I feel it would be much more efficient to run the game in windowed mode and then just use your normal web browser. Perhaps for those links that require a web browser to just simply paste the url so it would be much easier for users to copy and paste to go to those links.

Ayush_SCtoss

India3050 Posts

March 25 2011 22:25 GMT

#47

Somebody get this guy a job in Blizzard. I am behind you in all points. Granted I don't expect Blizzard to fix everything in one patch but one by one and I am okay with it. I really like your design and ideas but I do feel that browser is a bit overkill. If Blizzard do do that, I don't mind :D as long as my shitty laptop can handle it >.>

Zombo Joe

Canada850 Posts

March 25 2011 23:29 GMT

#48

The funny thing is that most of this should be painfully obvious to anyone designing the UI.

That's what happens when you hire the same person that designed Xbox Live's UI.

neSix

United States1772 Posts

March 25 2011 23:44 GMT

#49

Honestly I could fucking cry these things are so good! You have some serious talent for design, and I hope this really gets some much-needed attention. Your interface is just so understandable and so functional. It provides all the information you could ask for in a clean, concise manner. Obviously you designed interfaces for things that don't even exist yet (clan support, LAN, etc.) but I think you absolutely have the right idea.

I cannot articulate how much better I think your interface design feels. Perhaps it's a bit unfair because again you have features that don't exist yet, but even for things that already do exist (news, chat, welcome) I think you propose some massive improvements. That and I think the whole "Events & Tournaments" tab is a fucking great idea that I would imagine could be implemented with what Battle.Net already supports!

Once again, great work. I hope this post gets the plethora of attention it deserves.

-infinite-

United States44 Posts

March 25 2011 23:49 GMT

#50

Excellent stuff. It's hard for me to not believe that much of this is in the SC2 playbook at Blizzard. The only things I'd be personally interested in is Clan Support / Event management tools. Nix the browser jazz. You don't need that.

monitor

United States2404 Posts

March 25 2011 23:58 GMT

#51

Wow. Doing Blizzard's job for them! Would definitely support this, except I doubt Blizzard will... they're too stubborn.

daimyo

77 Posts

March 26 2011 00:08 GMT

#52

I laughed very hard after reading imaginary idra's messages on teamliquid channel.
very nice work.

XsebT

Denmark2980 Posts

March 26 2011 00:12 GMT

#53

It's not like Blizzard doesn't know about these possibilities (at least they should) - it's just that they don't know whether or not we really want them to make b.net2 awesome.
+ Show Spoiler [first of all] +

lan and cross regional play
not like it's gonna happen, but I really want it

prodiG

Canada2016 Posts

March 26 2011 00:14 GMT

#54

this is EXACTLY what bnet 2.0 should have been

when is blizzard hiring you?

Aequos

Canada606 Posts

March 26 2011 00:18 GMT

#55

I like both your optimism that they'll have a LAN button and the overall design of a number of these pages. I especially like the web browser/events pages, I think that those would be a nice touch.

For the pictures themselves, I like that you put a bunch of progamer's names in the chat, gave me a good laugh.

I would honestly support the events page the most of the things I saw, but my second choice would be the rearrangement of buttons, it's just much cleaner.

Roxy

Canada753 Posts

March 26 2011 00:22 GMT

#56

On March 26 2011 08:58 monitor wrote:
Wow. Doing Blizzard's job for them! Would definitely support this, except I doubt Blizzard will... they're too stubborn.

No kidding eh? its like every time someone has a great suggestion blizzard is like:

"Damn.. that was a good idea... i guess we can't use it now"

Torpedo.Vegas

United States1890 Posts

March 26 2011 00:25 GMT

#57

What about a Multiplayer Map Maker section? Where groups of people can get together to create maps in Galaxy Editor together. It might help create a more dynamic and faster map making community if they can talk to each other and design in real time with the maps being saved to both people at the end of a session.

zende

Sweden234 Posts

March 26 2011 00:29 GMT

#58

Has Blizzard actually said anything about clans? That would be so cool and so fun - really bring the eSports side of it further.

Perscienter

957 Posts

March 26 2011 00:32 GMT

#59

On March 26 2011 05:20 sjschmidt93 wrote:
Really sad that some one like you can create a better UI than a company as big and wealthy as Blizzard.

Good work.

Well, it only consists of screenshots, no UI. The coding required to create such features would be huge. But I wonder what they were working on all of the years anyway. They probably recoded bnet 2.0 from scratch. But then they just stopped without reaching the qualitative level of its predecessor. Features like clan integration should be quite natural.

I also miss a big online manual like Mojo StormStout's Warcraft III Strategy Guide was, where details about the game mechanics are carefully explained.

universalwill

United States654 Posts

March 26 2011 00:33 GMT

#60

web browser? damn, totally remove the need for alt-tabbing