Hexagon userbar

I fail to see anything remotely "decent" in this UB. There is no flow, no contrast and it has no stop value. Beyond that, the text placement is awful and the color choice is poor if you ask me. I also don't know if the background color (black) is suppose to be there or if it is for preview purposes. Though either way it is badly chosen. Also telling people not to judge you too hard because you've been out of the game for a while is like asking people not to judge you too hard because you're new. Regardless of your personal situation or how long it is been since you've made anything, it doesn't make the finished product anywhere near better.

Which is what we are talking about here, the finished product.

18-01-2017, 02:31 AM

Vitya Wrote: I fail to see anything remotely "decent" in this UB. There is no flow, no contrast and it has no stop value. Beyond that, the text placement is awful and the color choice is poor if you ask me. I also don't know if the background color (black) is suppose to be there or if it is for preview purposes. Though either way it is badly chosen. Also telling people not to judge you too hard because you've been out of the game for a while is like asking people not to judge you too hard because you're new. Regardless of your personal situation or how long it is been since you've made anything, it doesn't make the finished product anywhere near better.

Which is what we are talking about here, the finished product.

The background is grey, with black noise to reduce chances of it being ripped, the background is meant to be there yes, again to reduce chances of it being ripped. The text is a placeholder, I prefer it without text personally, but if it has my name on it, I'll give you a clue. Starts with a "Rip"...

And the don't judge too hard thing was more or a humour comment than a serious note, you know, lkke when people post "dont go too hard" on roast me posts on reddit, that sort of comment, but hard-core critics like yourself seem to forget humour during times where they deem it appropriate to not give anything any merit, but to instead single out and pick out the worst bits they can. That's just me tho
I'm happy to explain anything else if you require it

It seems like you copied those circles, pasted them and then just put "voltanic" over it or whatever there is :D

Im disappointed of you, voltaic but the old virtue userbar was also just plain text so its not a big deal for me

18-01-2017, 02:44 AM

voltaic Wrote: The background is grey, with black noise to reduce chances of it being ripped, the background is meant to be there yes, again to reduce chances of it being ripped. The text is a placeholder, I prefer it without text personally, but if it has my name on it, I'll give you a clue. Starts with a "Rip"...

And the don't judge too hard thing was more or a humour comment than a serious note, you know, lkke when people post "dont go too hard" on roast me posts on reddit, that sort of comment, but hard-core critics like yourself seem to forget humour during times where they deem it appropriate to not give anything any merit, but to instead single out and pick out the worst bits they can. That's just me tho

I'm happy to explain anything else if you require it

So you completely destroyed your work all in the effort that it wouldn't be ripped? You made something so horribly bad that no one would want to rip it, to avoid it being ripped? Where is the point in that. Not to mention that this isn't overly complicated to rip even while it is like this. It took me an entire flopping 2 minutes to make a near exact copy of it.

18-01-2017, 02:58 AM

Vitya Wrote: So you completely destroyed your work all in the effort that it wouldn't be ripped? You made something so horribly bad that no one would want to rip it, to avoid it being ripped? Where is the point in that. Not to mention that this isn't overly complicated to rip even while it is like this. It took me an entire flopping 2 minutes to make a near exact copy of it.

That is with minimal effort, and minimal skill requirement.

Beyond that, the idea isn't original and is very far from being that. So there really isn't anything worthwhile to "rip" either. So I really don't see why you ruined a potentially good design because you were afraid of being ripped. Even if the text is a placeholder, then it should be placed in a manner that is good because it is a placeholder for actual text that would be used. As it stands now, I would just remove the text and increase the quality of the design by 10 folds.

Don't get me wrong, I don't disagree with your points and I'll explain why.

I had an idea to get me started back on graphics, and I went for it, but it's not as creative or as adorably clever and well thought out as you (I can explain this if you really want me too, but we'd be shining the spotlight away from me so meh ), big whoop. I took a shot at designing after months and I didn't impress you, which is why criticism is important, this I can appreciate, so for that, thank you very much. I now have something to act upon, even if it did take a snide comment from myself to actually get you to cough up some brilliance and suggestion.

The way you presented your feedback was condescending, and gives me the impression you're some elitist superior race of graphics designer.
You've already proved how well you can mimic my userbars so the demonstration was irrelevant, but it was adorably well put together, like a nice powerpoint with presenters notes. But I'm only in the 99% of inferior designers anyway so meh. But yes, I completely destroyed my work so people can't rip it, not everybody who rips work is also a designer, so they might not have the skills to recreate a wobbly version of it, ergo, the background and text, not everybody is in the 1% master race after all...

But thank you for the feedback nonetheless, next time I'll try and be more creative, perhaps you could show me how to be more creative?
On a serious note I do intend to act upon the feedback and make some revisions.

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18-01-2017, 02:55 AM

Monopoly Wrote: It seems like you copied those circles, pasted them and then just put "voltanic" over it or whatever there is :D

Im disappointed of you, voltaic but the old virtue userbar was also just plain text so its not a big deal for me

*Hexagons* and thank you for your feedback. I shall see what I can do to improve it.

I really like it dude, tho it's not as good as the other ones you've made, hopefully you'll gain your creativeness back again!

18-01-2017, 03:26 AM

Devourz Wrote: I really like it dude, tho it's not as good as the other ones you've made, hopefully you'll gain your creativeness back again!

I hope so, I'm hoping there will be some moment of creativity that snaps back, in the meantime I'll just have to play with ideas

It's far too bland to be a user rank, there's so much lacking in terms of design!

18-01-2017, 03:16 AM

voltaic Wrote: I had an idea to get me started back on graphics, and I went for it, but it's not as creative or as adorably clever and well thought out as you (I can explain this if you really want me too, but we'd be shining the spotlight away from me so meh), big whoop.

The idea is underdeveloped, has a lack of work to it and passion. There is nothing wrong with the idea, the issue here is your work put into it. This design looks like something I saw back in school.. When someone else (or me) had postponed the work they were suppose to do until the last hour and just quickly smashed things together to meet the bare minimum criteria of the task so they wouldn't completely fail at it. The idea is not the issue, your work effort is.

Also feel free to explain that portion, as you've already completely ruined the entire point of this thread.

18-01-2017, 03:16 AM

voltaic Wrote: I took a shot at designing after months and I didn't impress you, which is why criticism is important, this I can appreciate, so for that, thank you very much. I now have something to act upon, even if it did take a snide comment from myself to actually get you to cough up some brilliance and suggestion.

Suggestion? If people used half the time they use to defend their bad designs on working to improve them based of criticism then the average quality of a forum designer would be increased like it was 5-6 years ago. I outright stated what was "not good" with the design you made, I am not telling you what to do because that ruins the learning aspect and creative aspect of learning graphical design and art. Go find how to fix it yourself, learn that yourself. People are better off giving you some guidelines to what you can improve upon, something which anyone who gives constructive criticism should do.

As constructive criticism and how it is given depends on the context. (Which I stated just now. Why it is bad for creative work to tell you ever little possible thing you should do.)

18-01-2017, 03:16 AM

voltaic Wrote: The way you presented your feedback was condescending, and gives me the impression you're some elitist superior race of graphics designer.

And the way you are replying is both condescending and childish. What impression you have is not important. I commented on your current work, and what was contained within your own thread. Nothing else. Is there a lack of flow in the UB? Yes. Is the color choice bad or could be improved? Yes. Does it lack a stop value? Yes. Could the text placement do with some work? Yes. Did you go to such extreme lengths to avoid it being ripped that you ruined the original idea? Yes.

There is nothing condescending or me acting "high and mighty" with such a comment. The only thing that was remotely subjective (and just barely) was the color choice, to which I added that it was my personal opinion.

18-01-2017, 03:16 AM

voltaic Wrote: You've already proved how well you can mimic my userbars so the demonstration was irrelevant, but it was adorably well put together, like a nice powerpoint with presenters notes.

I demonstrated what anyone with a week of Photoshop experience should, and would be capable of doing. No need to be condescending about it, I was proving the point that this thing, no matter how hard you try is not hard to rip. So you shouldn't have tried avoiding that so much and rather tried to make it look good.

18-01-2017, 03:16 AM

voltaic Wrote: But I'm only in the 99% of inferior designers anyway so meh. But yes, I completely destroyed my work so people can't rip it, not everybody who rips work is also a designer, so they might not have the skills to recreate a wobbly version of it, ergo, the background and text, not everybody is in the 1% master race after all...

And now you are being the; "Yes I totally agree with even though I don't" kid. No, you are not in the 99% of "inferior designers" as there is no such margin to go by. You are a half-decent designer with little knowledge and somewhat lack in general experience.