I have a fairly clean UI as well. It's the way to go for maxamizing game experience. I can't stand see a screenshot where someones UI is so crowded that you can only see the character.

Heres mine on an alt. Same functionality as on my main >>>http://aycu07.webshots.com/image/33366/2003955086605899506_rs.jpg (Thats with bags out and my tooltip highlighted...lucky drop I know ^^)

Another one without the bag and such out>>>http://aycu17.webshots.com/image/32336/2003927890523528226_rs.jpg

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#2 is possibly a keylogger and definitely random as heck.

I guess I should submit my UI... I haven't liked any of the ones I've seen in this feature lately.

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Not to be an asshole.. But that UI is crap. He spend none time on it, all bars are floating around the screen, chat frame totally out of the place.

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I love this UI - can you confirm that this screenshot is post-Patch 2.3 and that the mods all still work?

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Hmm, these Reader UI of the week reminds me how i wanna make a new UI meself, i got an almost standard with just a CTmodding and titanbar over it (and no, i ain't showing it cus it sucks)

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My UI is minimal and causes less headache on patch days.

I'm a caster, (mage & warlock) and I use Omen, and SLS and some utility which shows the sheep timer and some warlock timers, I forget what it's called.

I haven't used anything which greatly modifies the screen or the icons. I did briefly played with the utility which displays everything as nicely coloured rectangular bars. again I forget what it's called. I found it distracting in raids and went back to the standard WoW one which I was familiar with.

Daryl

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Don't mean to knock things,
but in the article it talks about how one of the objectives was to keep the screen clear so the game could be enjoyed. Yet the screen is covered with all kinds of crap, UI things, floating bars and whatnot.
It seems to be contradictory to say the least. The default UI leaves you with more room!

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@4 post your UI

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I don't get why people want to black out a third of their screen.

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the UI isn't really working for me.

seems cluttered and random. i'm not a big fan of massive UI reworking as it is though.

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I have a similar layout (chat, hotbars, omen and DM all at the bottom) and I find blocking out the screen makes it easier to see things and read things.

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My nice clean UI is Alt+z. I know where all my keys are and have to look for nothing. Clean as you can get with Alt+z.

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You know, Kirrina's also a raid leader, so I can see why you would have more stuff on your interface screen than someone who's just the usual guildie.

The center of the interface is clear, and that I like. I would not darken the lower part of the screen, but I like the placement of the buffs and pretty much how the lower part of the UI looks. I would pull the lower outlier buttons lower if possible. Some of the buttons are only used is safe situations, and one can take the time to right click or call them up rather than have them on a visible button.

All told, I've certainly seen worse, and for a leading a raid I think this is a good set up. I will definitely do some modifying of my UI.

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@11

If they are using a viewport addon like Aperture, then there is a good deal of sence to blocking out the bottom with a big black bar, it tells the graphics card not to bother to render that area and as such should get you a couple more FPS.

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Heh. Reminds me of my pallies raiding UI. Things are everywhere!

I'll get some screens next raid. I think a lot of people would like my UI. It's similar, but, cleaner.

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few tips to neaten it up:

align the chat with the eePanel at the bottom, the way it sticks out at the top is just ugly.

hide the micromenu (character, help, skills buttons etc above the chat) how often do you actually use them?

set your profession buttons on the right side so they at least fade out and fade in when you mouse over them. Again there's no need for them to be there all the time, unless you really need to craft some epics in an emergency situation...

hide the anchor for your elkbuffbars, it's ugly.

Those changes alone would take about 2 minutes and make the whole thing look much better, imo at least.

Here's a RAID shot of my UI, as in, this is as cluttered as it ever gets:

http://img137.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lastui1yi3.jpg

I don't wanna sound patronising or anything, I just like my UI's nice and clean and clutter-free so I thought I might offer some constructive critiscism.

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Hey Kirr, nice to see you around! /wave
While you have tons of practical addons and information around, have to agree with previous commenter that you should try to polish the visuals on it a bit, may it be by aligning bars, grouping buttons, etc... Besides that, great UI!

Linking mine for some tasteless publicity! :P
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n73/imarco21/WoWScrnShot_111307_210708.jpg

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Really dig your UI Chiemi, what addons are you using to achieve that?

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I've been on hols, sorry for the late reply.

@3 (Anton) - you're entitled to your opinion, but quite frankly I'm afraid you do sound like "an asshole". Try actually saying something, instead of just slagging this off.

@4 (arb) - yes I'm still using this in the latest patch 2.3.something.

@7 (theremover) - I hate the default ui, and certainly don't believe that it allows me more room. Try playing a hunter and placing your aspects/tracking (yes I know the last patch has refined the tracking somewhat) in the 'normal' bars. It just doesn't work.

@16 (Lastembrace) - thanks for the feedback. I admit that my raid ui gets messy, and there are probably a number of things I can do to polish it more. Ultimately this definitely veers towards the practical, as opposed to the attractive. Raid ui is the biggest area of concern, I just need to know what everyone else is doing, particularly with healer mana, threat levels etc.

@17 (Chiemi) - hi fella, hope you're good. :) Nice ui.

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