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.

RPG maker Atlus has become celebrated for the unique UI designs in its games, from the Persona series to the more recent fantasy epic Metaphor: ReFantazio. I spoke with Metaphor's UI designer Koji ...

References are incredibly important to us as UI designers. We spend a significant amount of time researching design patterns in games so that we might learn, reproduce and improve upon them in our ...

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 ...

Persona and Metaphor: ReFantazio's UI designer is open to accessibility options for players who find the stylish menus overstimulating: 'That is something we understand we'll need to work on and ...

Creatures Inc. lead UI designer Dave Gibson recently reached out to fans on social media in order to discuss how UI and UX could be improved in future Pokemon games.

In this special series from The Verge, we explore the small design decisions that have had an outsize impact on our lives.From simple card game browser UIs to deliberately complicated video game ...

I finally got some gaming done this week. I wrapped up A Plague Tale: Requiem, and it’s now my second favorite game of this year right behind Elden Ring. I’m a sucker for good action-adventure ...