UI Suggestion: Crystal Screen
MSpawn
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It’s been a while but here I am toying around with the UI again. This time, it comes in the form of tweaking the Crystals screen so that we can see more of our stash. Over time, especially with the timed crystals, milestone rewards, daily crystals, gold crystals, etc, these can accumulate pretty quickly. It feels like you scroll forever when trying to pop open some of these crystals, and sometimes you’ll even miss a couple if your stash is big enough. I guess this idea has been in the back of my mind due to a few mistaken taps here and there. One of the things that brought this idea back to life was the milestones list in the Summ(on)er Camp event. With 98 milestones to achieve, I found myself scrolling endlessly, and this became quite annoying after some time. So the idea I propose is something like this:
Decreasing the horizontal size of the crystals’ tabs would give more room to bring other tabs into view. This would essentially double the space to display crystal categories thus shortening the amount of time you need to scroll or to visually spot check for new crystals. The number of crystals you may have and the timers would still be present on the initial overview screen with the details, ability to purchase or open crystals living in the pop-up. Speaking of which, all you would need to do is tap on one of the crystal categories in the previous screen to get to the corresponding pop-up which could look something like:
Would love to hear you guys’ thoughts!
Decreasing the horizontal size of the crystals’ tabs would give more room to bring other tabs into view. This would essentially double the space to display crystal categories thus shortening the amount of time you need to scroll or to visually spot check for new crystals. The number of crystals you may have and the timers would still be present on the initial overview screen with the details, ability to purchase or open crystals living in the pop-up. Speaking of which, all you would need to do is tap on one of the crystal categories in the previous screen to get to the corresponding pop-up which could look something like:
Would love to hear you guys’ thoughts!
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When you open crystyals it takes you back to the same place in the list, top at the top.
1. Less scrolling so use more of the horizontal real estate (might be tricky b/c devices vary in aspect ratio, but should be a relatively easy change to code, but just need to test various aspect ratios)
2. when you select something, never make the user start over in terms of scroll location. the GUI should always take the user back to the exact location of the user (I'm speaking in terms of scroll location). This is esp. painful when claiming rewards
Even in the 2nd screenshot, the option for 1, 5, and 10 crystals should be positioned more efficiently (so the button under each label, then you can fit it all in 1 row)
I’m thinking instead of targeting each item separately, this space was/is there after those discount marks were placed and just affected all like elements. Your suggestion does clean it up even more though! Good stuff!