Archive for the 'Highlights' Category


SexyMap is Terrifying

This blog is based on hate, and there is very little I hate more than SexyMap. Not only is the mod a disaster area of bloated options, it also comes with the ugliest art I’ve ever seen. Literally, I can’t imagine something uglier. That’s not really true – in fact, typing “ugly” into google image search produces [...]

Highlight: Duke’s UI

So, this highlight is going to be more oriented to discussion how one should do transparency in all elements of the UI rather than the specifics of some of Duke’s choices. Obvi Duke is awesome, and I’m sure he doesn’t need to read me writing it 10 more times. But, for the sake of conformity: [...]

Highlight: Metz’ UI

Introduction
I typically won’t highlight a UI which I think is deeply flawed, and I won’t be breaking that trend with this post. Metz’ UI uses a lot of things I think are bad, but in a way that ultimately comes together to form a great UI. This won’t’ be the typical “Aesthetics/Functionality” type post; rather, [...]

Highlight: Failure, Part One

Introduction
This morning, I woke up and checked the requisite Post your UI Thread on the Official Boards. Low and behold, someone (who shall remain nameless) linked a UI from WoWInterface, and gave it “props” for the “art”. Now, usually when I see something that is truly awful, I keep my opinions to myself. It’s easy [...]

Highlight: Donk’s UI

Intro:
It’s been a long time since I’ve done a proper highlight, and I think it’s time that I do one. I picked this UI because it was something different, but still maintained usability. There are a lot of elements in this UI that I dislike, and I’ll go through those at the end. That said, [...]

Highlight: Halcyone’s New Colors

It’s been a while since Halcyone introduced us to the new colors in his UI. They’re “vibrant,” which is a pretty big break with current trends in the UI community. Of course, there are huge advantages to having bright, distinct, and easily identifiable colors in your UI. It helps with snap evaluation of class, makes [...]

Highlight: Duke’s UI

This is my first highlight in a while, so give me a break if it kinda sucks. I thought I’d start this one off with something a little…different than what I had done in the past. This highlight is going to focus on the art incorporated in Duke’s UI, because it is the main [...]

Designer Highlight: Caithlyn

Unfortunately, the discord site has been down for the past few days, so I wasn’t able to get the screenshots of Caith’s older UIs. If the discord site comes back up, then everyone should take a look at them. Aside from Chimaine, I would say that Caith has been the most influential on my personal [...]

Author Highlight: ckknight

You pretty much would have to be living under a rock not to have heard about ckknight, or his addons. He has some of the most popular and powerful mods out there right now, and all of his work is nothing short of the best. It’s tough to describe what I like the most about [...]

Forums!

**If you read some garbage here about using the forums isntead of comments…um…that was like the dumbest idea I’ve ever had. I’m not doing that – each post is like its own thread in a forum…no reason to replicate it elsewhere**
Anyway – Forums! I’ve added them! You must register! There are two forums for folks [...]