Reader UI of the Week: Small screen, big ideas

Thieren UI

Olivia Grace at WoW Insider: Everyone has specific goals to achieve with their UI, it’s one of the things I particularly like about writing this column, is seeing what people are up against, and how they’ve worked with their UI to adapt to that. And this week’s UI is no exception. While many of us are playing the game with big monitors, with big computers, or with big budgets, there are others who aren’t. This week’s Reader UI comes to you from a 1280×1024 monitor, and the submitter, Thieren, has had to work around their resolution to create a UI that allows them the maximum of screen space, and visibility, so that they can be at their most effective.

As a result, the header image is oddly cropped, but fear not, Thieren sent in several screenshots for us all to look at in environments where size doesn’t matter. There’s a solo shot, one in a ten-man raid, one in LFR, one solo, in combat and one in a party, out of combat. Let’s jump straight into Thieren’s email

I’ve largely run with this UI since early Wrath when I sat down to reign in the mess I’d created when I began tinkering with addons during Burning Crusade. There have been alterations, but they’re more quality of life stuff and replacing out-of-date addons. The most recent, and the reason for the delay, was moving my SUF bars down from the typical Blizzard position.

Anyway, I designed with four purposes in mind. The first was to account for the fact that my cheap self still plays on a monitor that only goes to 1280×1024 resolution. . . . read full article

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