*This post was originally written for Nix Hydra's Development blog, and can be viewed there as well*

Hail and well met fellow game lovers and egg enthusiasts! I’m Katie, the User Interface Artist and Designer / User Experience Designer currently working on Puzzlescapes! Today’s blog post is going to be about the wonderful world of UI Art and Design, designing good user experiences and a little insight into my process as a designer and artist when creating some of the interfaces you see in our games.

To start off here’s a little summary of what I do in my day to day job - since I really have 3 jobs that all go hand and hand and skip down the development pipeline together: