Background: So I prepared this video as part of my application to Blizzard Entertainment to become one of their User Interface Artists for StarCraft 2 and Blizzard DOTA. It is intended to demonstrate some of the changes I would make to StarCraft 2’s existing interface layout; specifically in the Match History and Replay portions of the menu. It is however not production ready work or in any way functional at this point. Rather it is a rough draft that simply demonstrates how I envision some those areas being changed to help improve their functionality. Some of the changes are relatively minor, and some are more major; as they represent a complete overhaul of how the replay file management works. As I thought the video came out reasonably well: I wanted to share it one here. Obviously if you like any of my proposed changes: I would greatly appreciate you taking the time to thumbs up the video or leave a comment on youtube or in the blizzard forums. (As any attention it gets might help get my resume noticed, and might potentially lead to me getting the job… I generally don’t ask for this kind of thing, but community support never hurts.)
Regardless, you can watch the video at the link below (it is 7:04 long I think, 8:18 with credits… so not a huge time investment), and I am interested to see what you think of my proposals. So without further ado, here is the link:
Thanks to anyone that takes the time to watch it, and once again if you take the time to leave a comment or like it: I would be genuinely appreciative. If you feel up to it the original post on Blizzard's SC2 Forums is here.
I...want this all so badly. Have you contacted blizzard directly/checked out their job listings? You have some amazing ideas that do not require a total re-tooling of how battle.net 2.0 works.
You would think Blizzard entertainment would use everything that is suggested in this video, and MUCH MORE. It's still mindblowing how TERRIBLE the current UI is. I just don't understand how you can fail so miserably. It still annoys me..
Obviously, they need to hire this guy, but it's not like there weren't a million other persons that would've done it for them before...
I can think of at least 25 things that annoy the SHIT out of me when I'm using the UI and I could easily suggest many improvements. It really doesn't take a genius to see all the failures in this lackluster Battle.net 2.0.
I like the ideas very much, but I am kind of irritated of you claiming that you have already done this. Some of the stuff you describe is hard work to change, yknow?
Wow, just finished watching the video. I LOVE so much what you thought of with the game summary ---> replay and the extra stats you included such as units at the end of the game, and how you can tell what's happening at what point in the game.
Such simple stuff, but for people who play thousands of games in customs/1v1 ladder sorting through them starts to get so tedious.
I really hope you get the job man, these things are far and away the best suggestions I've seen thus far.
Wow very well done, Looking through the match history is such a pain, and its almost always a long process, this would be so helpful when I'm sorting through replays.
Just finished the video and 100% agree with all changes, and loved the way you showed them implemented! Hope you get the job fast, so you can fix bnet 2.0
Goodness there are some good ideas in here! I wonder how easy it would be to actually code all of these changes, but regardless, this user based thinking would be a great step in the UI.
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