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Let's gather some homescreen UI preferences while Avid is cooking new homescreen UI. I shamelessly and lazily grabbed one random screenshot of the retro UI and one random screenshot of the last modern UI we've had (just read "achievements" as "adventures" and assume events appear above news). I intentionally didn't assume I am allowed to post yet another UI that was previewed in a... special place.
What do you guys think about button placement?
Which style do you guys prefer?
How would you like a future style to look like?
I prefer the modern UI's placement of the buttons for rewards, news, trading and events. They are much more easy to access compared to retro UI.
Friends could be at the top for all I care, which also goes for the rumored new referrals button although I believe it would be better if we didn't get a referrals button on the homescreen. I don't think it's good to stack friends and referrals together on the same side with alerts. I think alerts should stay where it is.
Decks seems to be placed well anyway. I don't think it needs an icon but I'm not opposed to it getting one.
I think the way to go forward would be a unified play-like button to then select league, casual and events from a vertical list. Maybe even a vertical list with tiles? Maybe adventures and quests could be a tile under such a rubric? Maybe the vertical list could also keep the homescreen background and design language instead of dropping us into some other blue place. A vertical tile list menu with all of the play modes becomes needed as new game modes get introduced. I decide I want to play then I decide the mode but the button selector on the bottom of the current play UI is so awkwardly placed on the bottom, it's like the game modes themselves are afraid that I might switch between the modes if I can see them presenting themselves as impactful choices that fill my entire screen together before filling my screen one by one.
