What goes into making a appealing gui?

[razorblvdes (txt)]

Hi, I’m always to make a game, but always quit on it during the GUI design, I want to know, what’s the special formula to make an appealing GUI, that can teach the player the in and out’s without being too intrusive, what colors go into making it look good? This is a question that has always been on my mind, and this is my first posting here.

[byc14 (byc)]

You can find numerous resources and tutorials which tackle this specific topic in #learning-resources:community-tutorials.

The following are some of the well received ones:

A Guide to User Interface Design

Introduction So before I start this off I want to talk a little bit about my experience in the years I’ve spent doing graphic art and interface designs. It’s never something you will get the first time, I took a very long time to have eye for this sort of thing. You will have times when you need concept art with you to guide you through a process for finding an ideal design. The pont of this tutorial is to be a stepping stone to improving your games because of how powerful graphic design in yo…

UI Design Starter Guide

In this guide I will be showing you some good practices for graphical user interface (GUI) design, as well as how to make GUIs in Roblox. Ultimately what you should do is up to you; I might have good advice, but there will always be exceptions. Design is a flexible discipline. Feel free to mess around or do things that are “wrong”. Just remember that you want to provide a good experience for your players, and a confusing or annoying UI will not help you in that goal. I have reached the maximum…

How to Plan, Design and Build Quality User Interfaces

Introduction I like to call User Interfaces the Crown of games, mainly because it’s the first layer on top of everything else(parts, post processing effects etc.) We all know that studio’s current tools for designing interfaces is pretty limited, so we must resort to a third party software/service like Pinterest and Adobe XD that can fill in the gaps. Background • What is Pinterest? Pinterest is a social platform which makes discovering information on a global scale using images. Pinter…

[valchip]

Well there are many and @byc14 linked some really good examples of some good tutorials but I am going to give you a simple one. Follow a color scheme. Following a color scheme makes the UI look really nice and organized and very appealing to the eye.

[RBLXBrody]

I’d suggest making the icons with rounded corners that have an appealing amount of detail. For some reason I always think they look much nicer that way and more modern.

Or you could make the icons bright and nice looking, to grab the players attention. I’ve mostly seen this used in simulators…