Conclusion

Conclusion

After designing our first alien User Interface design, finding the most important interface design rules, looking at
how Starcraft uses these design rules and making a new alien User Interface design, I think we can say that it’s
clear that all of the interaction design rules are very important. But then there is our main question.

Which User Interface design rules can be broken when designing a User Interface that is designed by and

for aliens, but is still user friendly for humans?

I will say that no, you cannot break any of the design rules that we have used in our design. But that is because of
all the design rules that are out there, I have chosen the five most important and used ones. That means that yes,
these are the most important rules that you should not break when designing an user interface. Because designing
something that is meant to be interactive, should be easy and useable. That means however, that most of the other
design rules that have not made the top five, can be broken.

During this tutorial we have found the five most important design rules. The ones that should not be broken.

Instead of trying to see which ones can be broken and which ones cannot. Eventually we can say that with this
tutorial, we have made a user friendly user interface that also fits an alien project very well. We now have a user
interface that has been tested and has been human approved, but is still an alien design. With these results I hope
this tutorial has been useful to you and that I may have teached you something along the way. But I hope that we
can say that we now know the design rules and guidelines that will help me and hopefully other artists in the future
when designing.

If you are a game artist and you find it difficult to design user interfaces, you can follow these five design rules and
guidelines. I am sure that these will help you designing a user friendly user interface design. But if you wanna go
all out and maybe make an alien design like myself, maybe you should break some rules. As long as you keep
these five rules in check, you can experiment on breaking other rules and have fun with your design!