Re-designing Ark's inventory.

For my UI module this year, I chose to remake Ark's inventory system based on making it better for casual players to pick up.

High Fidelity Prototype

This is my final prototype for the recreation of Ark's inventory system.

Low fidelity Prototype

A prototype of my low fidelity recreation of the inventory can be found below, this will allow you to play through and interact with the inventory to see how thing should be playing out. It also allowed me to user test with my university classmates, which helped allow me to make adjustments to the overall design.

Low Fidelity Gallery

Below is a gallery filled with images that show off some of the development from a wireframe all the way to a low fidelity prototype.

Scamps

Scamps are quick and simple drawings of the UI idea. I used these to figure out what layouts could work best for the recreation. Below are some of my best examples.

Flow diagram

Below is an image of the flow diagram that I created for the pre-production on this project.

Post it note investigation

Below is an image of my post it note investigation. This was created during pre-production as it allowed me to see how many buttons, inventory slots, player statistics I would have to balance in the recreation of this inventory.

Player personas

Below are some of the player personas that I came up with when creating the pre-production for this project.

UX laws that could help improve the inventory system.