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New GUI in zen pinball ios
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IGoFirstIndy
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100% Zen GUI sucks now. it's def worse than TPA. ZACC has it right.
Zen's new GUI - rather than open on all the tables now they are in sub categories. so you open zen. then have various folders for marvel, south park and star wars. then you go into that folder to pick a table. it reminds me of how some web sights present links in order to beef up their page counts.
keep it simple. i'm there for the games not the menu screen.
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- May 8, 2012
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Here's the main screen (Android)
Why Sorcerers Lair is not in the Zen folder bewilders me.
Then when you go into the Star Wars menu, you can update the table.
You can bet they did this because the flat UI structure was not scaling for all the teeny tiny icons they were jamming into the old interface.
Nesting them makes sense to me.
Why Sorcerers Lair is not in the Zen folder bewilders me.
Then when you go into the Star Wars menu, you can update the table.
You can bet they did this because the flat UI structure was not scaling for all the teeny tiny icons they were jamming into the old interface.
Nesting them makes sense to me.
Too many clicks to get to the gameplay
1. Click on stack "marvel" brings up description of marvel2
2. Click marvel again takes you to table selection screen with redundant marvel description
3. Click on table brings up table description
4. Click on table launches table play option "single player"
5. Click play option
6. Click launch.
From a UI/UX perspective this could definitely be simplified - the very least remove the first click that brings up the group description - it is pointless as it is the first thing you see when you get into the group table selection. I think all descriptions could be moved to the in game options screen - I don't need to be "sold" on the table I am about to choose, and once you read it you don't need to have see every time you play. IMHO
1. Click on stack "marvel" brings up description of marvel2
2. Click marvel again takes you to table selection screen with redundant marvel description
3. Click on table brings up table description
4. Click on table launches table play option "single player"
5. Click play option
6. Click launch.
From a UI/UX perspective this could definitely be simplified - the very least remove the first click that brings up the group description - it is pointless as it is the first thing you see when you get into the group table selection. I think all descriptions could be moved to the in game options screen - I don't need to be "sold" on the table I am about to choose, and once you read it you don't need to have see every time you play. IMHO
Exactly! I've even complained TPA's "start" "start" double tap. Let me play just by one click!
IGoFirstIndy
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it'd be awesome if just clicking "start" in TPA started a 1 player game and clicking the table's icon brought up it's option screen like it does now.
As far as Zen, their menu screens have always been a major weakness. it is a little surprising though that they've made them even less user friendly than they already were. i made the mistake of buying star wars and marvel tables separately so i have three zen pinball apps on my home screen now. you'd think they'd want them all in the zen pinball app so that people buying licensed tables can then see what other tables they offer rather than being license inclusive. What they have now is by far the worst option.
- Feb 19, 2012
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It's still much better than TPA's UI.
- May 8, 2012
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...for many reasons. It is fully controller compatible for one. Yes the nesting is a little annoying, but far less than a UX stuck somewhere in the past.