In this 2018 GDC session, developer Zach Gage explains how to make games desirable to someone looking over a player's shoulder on the subway, sitting next to a player on an airplane, or minding their own business on Twitter.
In this 2018 GDC talk, DICE LA's Omer Younas explains how to create consistent, engaging UI art for AAA games using relevant theory and best practice.
In this GDC 2017 session, Nerial developer Francois Alliot explains how the Reigns development team gave themselves a set of constraints defined by the swipe-based gameplay they were exploring to help create the tone they wanted to give to the game.
In this 2016 VRDC session, High Fidelity's Bradley Davis explains the best practices for creating 2D user-interfaces for VR games and experiences.
This 2016 talk from Northway Games' Colin Northway explores how VR with tracked controllers makes us re-think how players interact with our games and that should include challenging the very idea of menus.
See Tobii's interview with Ubisoft producer Corneliu Vasiliu for Assassins Creed Rogue eye tracking implementation.
When I started at Naughty Dog in November of 2012, the studio never had a dedicated UI (user interface), designer or artist, before. There were eight months left in the development of The Last of Us and while some of the UI elements had already been roughed out, an overall design of the HUD (heads up display) had not been established.
In this 2013 GDC Next talk, F2P consultant Ethan Levy offers practical, hands-on guidelines and processes for designing your game's monetization.
