{"id":550,"date":"2026-05-11T12:04:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/xz16u24\/?p=550"},"modified":"2026-05-11T14:11:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:11:44","slug":"ui-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/xz16u24\/2026\/05\/11\/ui-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"UI Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is an UI Designer\uff1f<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is an explanation from \u3010UX of Game Career Theory\u3011Take you to recognize the UI, GUI, VX positions in one step – NetEase Game Academy – Empower love<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since all the software we use on a daily basis relies on UI design, I have a general understanding of the industry\u2019s key functions. However, game UI design is actually not as simple as one might think. From the feedback provided by playtesters, I noticed that users often interpret the meaning of icons differently than the designers intended, so I decided to research some other, more established UI designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot from Arknights\uff1aEndfield<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot from Arknights<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot from https:\/\/dribbble.com\/shots\/24047061-Lost-Legends-RPG-Game-Illustration<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personal Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After reviewing the project, I realized that for a UI to be immediately intuitive, it needs not only well-designed icons but also text labels. In this project, I didn\u2019t think of this in time, and because of space constraints, I didn\u2019t include text labels, which led to frequent feedback from players that they found it difficult to understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot from GDD \uff0cthe draft of the UI design<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot from our game\uff0csince some of the mechanics weren’t implemented in the end, a few icons were removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make them easier to understand, I added symbols to the icons, but even during the final playtest, we still received feedback that the icons\u2019 functions weren\u2019t clear. Fortunately, since the icons\u2019 meanings didn\u2019t have a critical impact on the gameplay experience and were intended solely for guidance, we included on-screen prompts during the game to guide players on what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UI designer in the Gaming Industry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I used to think that UI design was a single role, but after doing some research, I discovered that it actually involves collaboration across different roles. I searched for UI-related positions on miHoYo\u2019s job portal, selected a few that caught my interest, and took screenshots of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshots from https:\/\/jobs.mihoyo.com\/#\/campus\/position<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is an UI Designer\uff1f This is an explanation from \u3010UX of Game Career Theory\u3011Take you to recognize the UI, GUI, VX positions in one step – NetEase Game Academy – Empower love Since all the software we use on a daily basis relies on UI design, I have a general understanding of the industry\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-semester2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/xz16u24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/xz16u24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/xz16u24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/xz16u24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/xz16u24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/xz16u24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/xz16u24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/xz16u24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/xz16u24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/xz16u24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}