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Hey All,
Wanted to start a thread to share our user experiences with card makers and publishers about their decks since clearly most do not consider user experience in their design phase.
Hope this is therapeutic and helpful for everyone.
Here's my most recent experience I will share. This is the Art of Tarot deck set made by Metro Books. Admittedly, this is a cheap set. The cards are 3.4 x 4.7 roughly. For my taste, these cards are too big. The card stock is thin and these are glossy. This recipe amounts to what I refer to as Big Floppy Cards, which translate to an unwieldy/bad user experience.
CHECK OUT PIC BELOW
My solution for this particular set is to trim the deck because of all the wasted space in the card design. However, the problem in doing this is that the card back design will be chopped/cropped in a less than desirable way. I'm going to do it anyway because it is an acceptable trade-off, so stay tuned for follow-up pics.
The main point here is that if card makers/publishers are going to be unconscious of some of this user experience feedback, consider choosing your card back designs with modification by the user in mind.
Feel free to share your user experiences of decks on this thread, so hopefully we will get more of what we want and less of what we don't.
Paz
Wanted to start a thread to share our user experiences with card makers and publishers about their decks since clearly most do not consider user experience in their design phase.
Hope this is therapeutic and helpful for everyone.
Here's my most recent experience I will share. This is the Art of Tarot deck set made by Metro Books. Admittedly, this is a cheap set. The cards are 3.4 x 4.7 roughly. For my taste, these cards are too big. The card stock is thin and these are glossy. This recipe amounts to what I refer to as Big Floppy Cards, which translate to an unwieldy/bad user experience.
CHECK OUT PIC BELOW
My solution for this particular set is to trim the deck because of all the wasted space in the card design. However, the problem in doing this is that the card back design will be chopped/cropped in a less than desirable way. I'm going to do it anyway because it is an acceptable trade-off, so stay tuned for follow-up pics.
The main point here is that if card makers/publishers are going to be unconscious of some of this user experience feedback, consider choosing your card back designs with modification by the user in mind.
Feel free to share your user experiences of decks on this thread, so hopefully we will get more of what we want and less of what we don't.
Paz