1. I want to be a GUI designer
SNS Gamer usability and mission of the designers
Presenter: Nguyễn Xuân Phú- 2D art team leader of GSS
GUI: graphical user interface

2. Content
 Common usabilities
 Trends of UI art.
 Testing or discussing UI?

3. Common usabilities
 GUI have to be self-evident, which means
gamers can get it on sight.
 When GUI can’t be self-evident, let’s make
it easy to understand.(explanatory)

4.  Don’t make them think
 They’re always impatient
Common usabilities

5.  Don’t make them think!
– Icon Identification
– 5 fingers
Common usabilities

6.  Don’t make me think!
Icon Identification

7.  Don’t make me think!
Icon Identification

8. Icon Identification
 Don’t make me think!

9.  Don’t make me think!
5 fingers

10.  Don’t make me think!
5 fingers

11. 5 fingers
 Don’t make me think!

12.  They’re always impatient.
– They don’t read, they CLICK
Common usabilities

13. What we think: let’s write some
great literature or at least as
much as better
 They’re always impatient
What a gamer thinks: across the
field with a race car and stop
where we find interesting
They don’t read, they click

14.  They’re always impatient
They don’t read, they click

15. They don’t read, they click
 They’re always impatient

16.  They don’t read, they click
 They’re always impatient

17. Trends of UI Art
 Texturizing
 Borderless

18.  Trends of UI art
Texturizing

19.  Trends of UI art
Texturizing

20.  Trends of UI art
Borderless

21.  Trends of UI art
Borderless

22.  Discussing:
– Wasting time
– Killing the creativity
Testing or discussing UI

23.  Test- comment- fix- test- comment- fix- test…
Testing or discussing UI

24. Conclusion
- Icon Identification
- 5 fingers
- They don’t read, they click
- Texturizing
- Borderless
- Testing UI, not discussing.

25. I want to be a GUI designer

26. Q&A