Hello, I wanted to ask how you would approach getting better designs and layouts for UI. Rather than making the elements themselves, designing how it would look and be laid out, how can I practice? How did you practice? How did you learn? Things like that, whatever advice one may have, thank you for your time.
I have tried making UI, and I really just suck at getting layouts, ideas and/or designs. When I reference something or am given a layout, I do fairly good, but I just CANT design anything on my own, it all ends up looking like an exact copy of a reference or completely horrible.
Hello, I myself have only uncovered the tip of the iceberg when it comes to ui designing, however i can confidently say that by making very simple Gui’s you can improve gradually. I would suggest starting by creating some Menus, Shops, etc. It will definetily help you learn. If you encounter bugs (you most likely will) that seem unsolvable just remember that its part of what helps you understand and learn. In my opinion you should read roblox’s documentation on Gui’s and definetily all about the Tweening Service from the roblox documentarions or from youtube videos whichever one seems easier, since Tween Service allows you to manipulate the gui’s movement to your liking, making popups and things of the sort. A good way to help you get ideas is to ask yourself questions of what type of ui you’d want to make and if it is within your skill level, if not then try picking something easier. You don’t have to start by making crazy advanced loading screens or things like that. You should play around with the guis properties and learn what each of them do. Also a fantastic way of learning ui scripting (and what helped me the most in undestanding scripts) is to get free gui’s or models off of the roblox toolbox and analyze their scripts, reading the script slowly and understanding what each segment does.
I hope i have been of help, Good luck!
For me, it took a lot of time before I got used to creating designs. Let alone ones that looked good, it’s definitely not simple. A lot of times, I just tried recreating already made designs. Once it looked close to the real thing, I changed little things here and there to make a completely different design. It’s not easy making a whole design from scratch, so try to start with a template.
Once you get used to branching off of inspired designs, try to make one from scratch. Think of the best elements from each of the designs and put something together using them.
You’ll completely blank if you start from scratch without having experience with using reference.