Screenshots from over 1,000 games highlight this often overlooked aspect of game design.

Tailoring (verb): The process of adapting a game user experience and user interface to a new platform.

Coates emphasises that UI is a complex beast that's very dependent on context. The genre, theme, style, and key information a game needs to present all dictate the fundamentals of your UI design.

When people bring up gaming in social conversations, the first things people bring up are the characters and the stories that ...

The Game UI Database, created by senior UI artist Edd Coates, is a repository that highlights the different approaches to user interface design in games.

What makes an awesome game? Here are the factors that help determine how enjoyable a video game is for its players.

There is no video game that can turn you into a great designer (even if SimCity really can teach you a lot about urban planning). But this new game, which tests your knowledge of interface design ...

Edd Coates is founder of Game UI Database. Game UI designers use references to iterate on existing design patterns and provide players familiar, intuitive experiences. This allows us to onboard them ...

In-game texts in particular feel a bit tired, since this format is ostensibly a much easier way to design game conversations than animating several characters speaking to one another.

Since launch many players have talked about the unintuitive Modern Warfare 2 UI design, and how it makes little to no sense for a Call of Duty game. Presented like some sort of streaming service ...