Chessboard

Personal Work

Main Menu | This was my first UI exploration with a limited color palette. By focusing on simple shapes, I challenged myself to ensure that selected states were always visually distinct.

Main Menu | This was my first UI exploration with a limited color palette. By focusing on simple shapes, I challenged myself to ensure that selected states were always visually distinct.

Save Menu | This menu maintains a stark, high-contrast look, while providing just enough information to meet the player's needs. It's sometimes useful to see how far you can cut back a design while keeping it usable.

Save Menu | This menu maintains a stark, high-contrast look, while providing just enough information to meet the player's needs. It's sometimes useful to see how far you can cut back a design while keeping it usable.

Settings Menu | These menus are a great way to experiment with focus states and different player controls, like sliders and toggles.

Settings Menu | These menus are a great way to experiment with focus states and different player controls, like sliders and toggles.

This exploration was focused on minimal colors and geometric interactive objects, inspired by a chessboard, as the name suggests. By limiting myself to these elements, it made me focus on making each element clean and clear, without losing a sense of cyber-noir style.

  • Limit the color palette to 3 colors, with varied saturation/opacity where necessary

  • Stick to rectangular shapes and 45/90 degree angles only

  • Leverage tooltips and contextual popups to provide the player with specific information