League of Legends Profile

Boming Zhou

TYKHE GAME PROJECT

League of Legends is one of the most popular games in the world, and is one of the many franchises featured in our Tykhe Game Project.

I thought it was only fitting that there should be a profile for League of Legends in our game.

Tools: Adobe Photoshop

  • Standard Tykhe Profile Design

  • First Draft of League Profile

In my first draft of the profile, I felt like I had a decent foundation but it felt too basic & outdated to me.

  • For one, the 3 big borders were way too basic, just simply bolder lines with gold or white coloring.

  • The overall design was quite dark and not really striking enough for me, had a very dim atmosphere to it which made it feel unsatisfying, and didn’t quite capture the League of Legends atmosphere.

  • On the left side, it is a simple banner flag waving down, which felt neat at first, but became more corny to me the more I looked at it.

So overall, I thought this was a decent start, but the entire thing felt very off to me and I wanted to reconsider the direction I took with this profile design

 

Taking a closer look.

I decided to take a step back and decided to not just look at the in-game User Interface design, but also take a look at the game’s universal branding style; from their websites to marketing material.

I drew inspiration not just from the game’s UI itself, but also from the websites design and marketing . I noticed there was a common use of thin, golden lines with intricate patterns and compositions. There was a sense of minimalism which elevated the modern feel of the game’s branding, which is exactly what I needed for the profile design

In my first draft, I mentioned that I felt the overall design was outdated and too basic, so using references from the game’s websites and various marketing material, paying closer attention to the colors, lines, patterns, it gave me a much better idea on how to re-approach my profile design.

  • Initial Card Border

    In the first card border design for the cards on the left and right of the profile, it was a very simple border design with a simple gold line that had a bit of a sheen on it. Good, but could be better.

  • Final Card Border

    I applied what I observed on this border, designing my own border pattern of thin gold lines of varying thickness. This accentuates a premium and designer feel to the border that I was looking for in the profile, while also capturing the League of Legends style.

  • The Center Card Border: Initial Draft

    In the first draft of the profile, the middle card slot has a white border, instead of a gold one. Because the center card of a profile is usually the place for a player’s favorite card, or the one they are most proud of, I wanted to design the center card border to be something striking and bold, and make that center card stand out.

  • Center Card Border: First Iteration

    In the first iteration of the center card, I knew I wanted to make the entire card slot a striking white, with game imagery inside and a few thin lines outlining the border. However, because the program-generated text for profiles is also white with black drop shadows, this would make the text readability very hard.

  • Iteration test with Text

    The text is auto-generated from the game’s code, and the default text color is white, so a white background for these profiles usually will not work well. This was certainly a challenging barrier to overcome, I wanted to keep the card border white yet also dark enough so text is legible and readable.

  • Center Card: Second Iteration

    I tried one method which was to add a dark gold border behind where the white text would go, however this made the border feel crowded and claustrophobic, although it did improve text legibility.

  • Center Card: Final Design

    I managed to find a different artwork that worked very well for the border. It is done by the incredible Suke, who created this art for the Chinese New Year 2019 Celebration Event for League of Legends. I applied the artwork and edited the colors and shadows to better contrast with white text, and it was successful. I adjusted the thin border lines a little to add even more flair to the border itself.

  • Final Border Design with Text

    Here, the white text is much more legible now, while the border still retains its striking white design as originally intended.

  • Initial Profile Statistics Section

    On the left side of every Tykhe profile is a section where a user’s game statistics are displayed, such as their card count, their favorite categories, etc.

    In the initial design of this section, I mentioned earlier that I felt a banner waving down felt a bit too corny and on-the-nose, so it needed some modernizing

  • Final Profile Statistics Section

    I simplified the design for the final iteration, by drawing inspiration from League of Legends’ website design with the gold lines floating behind the text.

    Each rectangle is a section for the individual statistics to be displayed, so having the statistic text feel separated rather than floating on a banner made more sense and looked sleeker.

  • Final Design

  • Completed Profile