Hello
I happened to get used to UE4 UI in some ways, I kinda liked the colored button icons, separators between tool icons and thicker borders a bit more, all of which are something the modern UIs specifically seem to avoid avoid.
In general I understand the current tasks to make the UI work with limited space and so much features we all want at the fingertips so I expected there would be a change.
I would appreciate the support for optional borders and/or separators between elements that were removed in UE5 compared to UE4, that adds to the contrast and just looks better to me. Most importantly, the ability to adjust border WIDTH or THICKNESS, transparency and perhaps even color-gradient at higher border widths would be a bonus.
These custom borders should ofcourse behave like actual ones that can be independently colored in the border group and not tied to the element coloring, etc. And the scaling has to be taken care of as well automatically, ofcourse some kind of a thickness limit should also be made, it may be dependant on a calculation that factors total resolution and DPI and stuff like that into account.
Bordering helps with clarity and separation and gives things good contrast for me, but if we can’t agree on technical reasons I still have my personal taste that it just looks better to me. However I am not talking about high-contrast effects where everything’s blown out of proportion for disability reasons, this isn’t the same and does not achieve the unique effect I’m after.
Overall I’m just not a fan of the material design, that goes for the desaturated icons, that also adds to the decreased contrast so the whole thing feels like a bland cloth soup.
I was about to mention coloring in a bigger way, but I don’t have to, it seems like there’s a lot of granularity that’s already possible, so that’s very good to see.
Thanks for consideration.
EDIT: The forum won’t let me create or choose UI-UX tag, it seems bugged only showing Animation and VR, there’s Feature Request too but then it asks for yet more tags under that none of which are about UI.