I’m Emmanuel Katto from Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), web developer and I’m planning to create an online gaming website. I’m new to game design, and I’m looking for advice on how to design an engaging and user-friendly gaming interface. Specifically, I’d like to know:
What key elements should I consider when designing the user experience for an online game?
How can I make sure the design is visually appealing and keeps users engaged?
Are there any best practices or design principles I should follow to make the game interface intuitive and fun?
I’d really appreciate any insights, suggestions, or resources from anyone who has experience with game design for web platforms. Thanks in advance!
I’m Emmanuel Katto from Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), web developer and I’m planning to create an online gaming website. I’m new to game design, and I’m looking for advice on how to design an engaging and user-friendly gaming interface. Specifically, I’d like to know:
What key elements should I consider when designing the user experience for an online game?
How can I make sure the design is visually appealing and keeps users engaged?
Are there any best practices or design principles I should follow to make the game interface intuitive and fun?
I’d really appreciate any insights, suggestions, or resources from anyone who has experience with game design for web platforms. Thanks in advance!
Focus on a clean, intuitive UI with minimal clutter, responsive controls, and a visually appealing design. Use consistent colors, readable fonts, and smooth animations to enhance engagement. Incorporate progress indicators, rewards, and interactive elements to keep players invested. Ensure the interface is scalable for different devices and follows UX principles like Fitts’s and Hick’s Laws for usability. Testing with users will help refine the experience.
Well, I can say one suggesting:
Use bootstrap when possible.
But why do I suggest this?
Well, imagine that you hired a REALLY great team of graphic designers. (and if you have access to that graphic design department?
I STRONG suggest that after you have some basic layouts, then get them to go over and make suggesting's
People in print media, and web design? They do this for a living, and they have an AMAZING ability to correctly layout and format text and screens.
I mean, I always thought I have "good taste". But, having had people with graphic design experience make some suggesting's?
It's amazing. I feel the web site went from amateur hour to looking like a real amazing professional web site.
Same goes for trying to lay out documents or a brochure - these people have just amazing taste and a "knack" for layouts that look great.
And their same "taste" and layout knowledge? It will transform your web site - and in most cases VERY little changes are required.
And this brings me back to using bootstrap. Bootstrap is really only a standard approach to the fonts, the spacing, and the layout you use.
In other words?
Say you don't have access (or the budget) for hiring some graphic artists to improve you layouts?
Then use bootstrap.
But, why?
Well, bootstrap was developed by twitter folks. (not all that important).
But WHAT IS most important?
They hired some top notch graphic artists and layout people - spent a lot of money for good looking web stuff.
They THEN took that "know how" and put it into a standardized approach to web layout for tables, and buttons, and just about anything else!
So, while bootstrap can handle things like different sized screens from smartphones to large monitors (reason alone to use bootstrap)?
The REAL value is that bootstrap amounts to a style guide. So, from page to page etc., your "web style" and layout will be consistant, and not just "made up" as you go along. This is the real value of bootstrap - you get a style guide that costed someone a BIG AMOUNT of money.
Often, this means you can save the need for hiring some graphic artist to help with a "tasteful" layout.
I'll give you a simple example:
Let's whip up a simple table (gridview) in asp.net.
Code behind does not really matter, but code to fill out the GridView is this:
Code:
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
If Not IsPostBack Then
LoadData()
End If
End Sub
Sub LoadData()
GVTeams.DataSource = MyRst("SELECT * FROM
vTeams ORDER BY Team ")
GVTeams.DataBind()
End Sub
And the result is this:
Now, if you ask me? The above looks like something from the year 2000....old and dated.
And, if you were to hire a graphic artist and they cooked up a layout?
Well, what they would cook up is much the same as what bootstrap "thinks" is a good layout.
So, let's add JUST this bootstrap class to the above:
eg:
Code:
<asp:GridView ID="GVTeams"
runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False"
DataKeyNames="ID" GridLines="Both"
CssClass="table table-hover" <--- We add these 2 bootstrap classes
>
<Columns>
And now the table looks like this:
Wow!! What an improvement!!!
And let's add the btn class to the hyper-links (the Edit links in above).
And a shadow to the button(s) - along with font awesome
Now, we have this:
Wow! Talk about an improvement here, and only took 1 minute of my time!!!
And guess what? If I hired a graphic artist to fix the original page? Well, in most cases, the results would be much what bootstrap does for you.
So, I can't really suggest "things" on your site to increase traffic, and say how to keep such people engaged on your site.
But, if you not using bootstrap to make the site "pleasing to the eyes", then I do suggest as such.
And perhaps you already are using bootstrap, and thus the above is of little help to you....
And, today? I'm hard pressed to think of a site that's not using a nice set of style sheets etc., and often that means a set of styles based on bootstrap...
