From a design tailoring perspective, one of the key challenges was to adapt the complex user flow for in-game menus. This complexity mainly came from interactions nested* within the inventory ...

Koji Ise, lead UI designer on hit 2024 JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio, joined Atlus in 2018 after spending a while working on website design in the advertisement space, as he explained at a GDC 2025 talk.

Though developers at Paradox say that some players do long for the older, more complex user interface, Crusader Kings 3 was a deliberate attempt to streamline the game’s UI.

I spoke with Metaphor's UI designer Koji Ise at this year's Game Developers Conference (GDC) to discuss the creation of the game's UI and how it conveys a sense of "cool". "There are various ways ...

One of Persona 5's iconic and stylistic dialogue screens. Persona 5 via the Game UI Database. According to Coates, two games that stand out in the realm of interfaces are Persona 5 and The Legend ...

Speaking to GamesRadar+ after GDC 2025, Metaphor's lead UI designer Koji Ise said he was at least partly inspired by another fantasy PS2 roleplaying game, this time from a quarter century ago ...

Tooth & Tail, Shogun Showdown, and Balatro simplify complex mechanics for streamlined strategic gameplay. Strategy games are typically known for their complex mechanics and, often in the ...

Google Stitch, the free AI-powered tool that transforms UI design with natural language commands and seamless Figma integration. Learn how to ...

The Gemini 2.5 Pro-powered “Stitch” experiment is available on Google Labs and can turn text prompts and reference images into “complex UI designs and frontend code in minutes,” according ...

Players seek immersion in open-world games with minimal UI for a more authentic experience. Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Ghost of Tsushima offer minimal UI for immersion.