Bug Game: Visual Novel UI designing

After being informed at a lack of awareness regarding UI/UX creation by both lecturers and friends in the game dev industry, I decided to set myself a quick project. I drafted an idea for a child appropriate visual novel themed around bugs and began sketching and finalising designs of possible UI.

This was a real challenge as I had honestly never considered UI design at all before. I tried to keep things consistent, relying on similar shapes and using the same colour palette and motifs for my sketches and refined designs. I also tried to consider how to make my sketches more lighthearted and easier for a child to interact with.

This was quite fun and I will definitely look at developing and refining some of these images into true final designs as they all need some work. For a first attempt I am quite happy and feel a lot more confident in creating UI in the future. It was especially interesting to think about all the different menus and icons in games and what the design process behind them may look like.