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Staff
Overall the new design is very clean and elegant. The old design feels very boxy and cluttered after looking at these screen shots.
The new menu structure looks good so far. Judgement will of course have to wait until we get to play around with it for real. In particular I hope it will be super-easy for users to access their national conference as well as their NT and U20.
I like the inclusion of weekly cost for each staff type - adding simple functionality such as this without the need for installing browser add-ons is a good step.
Finances
I like the cartoon on the right hand side. Little touches like this should keep the design feeling homely, even while it is cleaner and more elegant.
Player (Supporter)
The skill bars are a great addition, surely making it easier for new managers to get used to their players.
Personally I'm not a fan of the icons instead of text in the "Owner Actions" and "Supporter Features" sections though. Pictures and icons are ok, but I like my menus to come in the form of text!
The new cartoon player portraits seem to be polarizing opinion on Global. Personally I like them so far.
Player (non supporter)
I imagine if I was a non-supporter then the in-your-face silhouette and "only available for supporters" text would annoy me after a while.
Allowing supporters to toggle between the old fashioned skill listings and the shiny new bars is a good move. Hopefully there will be plenty of display options in the new design.
Overall
The new design appears to be clean, fresh and energising. What's more, the Hattrick "feeling" seems to remain. I can't wait to play around with it for real.
What do you think? Is this one step too far? Have the HTs got it spot on? Leave a comment and share your opinion!
i think the new design looks very good at the surface, but how it's going to work out is the big question.
ReplyDeletei particularly don't like the part where Senior Squad and Youth Squad are listed together. Since when was the youth squad of equal importance with the senior squad?
well i do think that hattrick really needs a good design and this is a nice one but forgive me for all the criticism.
we could actually see how hattrick is gearing towards having 50% of it's game for supporters only and this is proven with the layout differences between non-supporter and supporter. Alraedy we have increased mail type limit for supporters, training reports and so on. Coming back to the topic, the non-supporter player page in the new design didn't took me a little days to be annoyed with. It was just a matter of seconds.
not finished, i seemed to have something i want to write here. Aww. Can't remember it now.
lastly, an important fact to note is that the page may look really nice now. But imagine it with ads?
I suppose it is probably worth remembering that the design is subject to change before it finally gets released.
ReplyDeleteI think the HTs have already said they will reconsider the in-your-face "you should buy supporter" texts on the player page - but yes, I totally agree that the design shown in the sneak peak is too much.
I don't blame the HTs for adding more supporter only features, supporters pay good money and deserve the occasional new feature. I certainly don't think the lower HT mail character limit or the absense of a training report give any disadvantage for non supporters - it is very easy to send 2 messages rather than 1 and there are plenty of free CHPP tools that are much, much more useful than the in game training report.