I’ve been indifferent about the UI so far but after last night’s stream I was shocked how hard to read the report screen is. For me the background is just too bright and the sections are poorly delineated. Maybe we’ve found a new use for those Eclipse glasses although a dark mode would be much better (white on black you can’t go wrong).
I think the big problem with this kind of thing is that often the people making it don't get a choice in the matter, someone above them whose specialty is marketing and branding, not UX, will give them a brief to stick within.
On a side note, it looks like they widened the "Score brekdown" section which lead to the "Performance breakdown" being the victim of some serious squishing. They should probably start from scratch with a new end of service design, to show all information in a much nicer way, some of this design dates back to TSW2 at least, and they keep adding to it. - Why would you put the service name in the lower right corner with a huge font and a scrolling text, instead of promoting it to the title of the screen. - Why is the performance breakdown title font much larger than the other two sections - Why does the score breakdown have those vertical lines in the title line, but the other two do not - Key statistics has the same visual treatment but a completely different font. Basically my conclusion is, DTG as a company lacks UI and Design specialized people, what they have is railfan engineers and a marketing team that always wants something new. So they get something new each year, but progressively worse looking and most likely performing worse as well since the old pieces never change, and they keep adding new UI with different resources.
If I look at the image for too long, I really do get a headache. Please, DTG, change this as soon as possible; as far as I’m concerned, you can even reuse the one from TSW 5 or 6 – that’s definitely better than the current one. Princess Entrapta Yes, I also hope that a mod will fix this as soon as possible. I just keep wondering why modders have to tweak TSW to make it look better than the original in every respect.
Hence why I said who approved it should get it just as badly, honestly going off how bad it is, I think a 3 year painting would still come out better than the mess DTG chose, DTG blink twice if you’re okay
+1 for Dark Mode My eyes are sensitive for bright lights and prone for inflammation and searching the mouse cursor on that bright UI isn't fun either.
Its good theyre investigating, but this needs to be an ASAP thing. its a clear accessibility issue for certain people. Im remaining cautiously hopeful.
Agreed, I dont have any issues with bright lights myself, but even i feel like the entire menu is just super bright. I cant imagine what it would be with certain medical issues which have extreme sensitivity to bright lights.
I should probably just put "Everything is very difficult for DTG" in my signature at this point the amount of times it comes up.
If they cant, that would be logically stupid and quite frankly ridiculous. accessibility should be a top priority, and if they say it isnt possible, I quite frankly dont believe that. To put in a dark mode, it isnt a huge, massive undertaking.
i prefer an customizable menu and ui mode where we can just choose our own color combo there will always be people who will hate an dark or light menu/ui
