Ace Poker

How to Design for Professional Players

2015-2017

Category

Mobile Game Design

My Role

User Research
UX Design
UI Design

We got some positive feedback from our users after the launch of TNT Landlord. To train the Doudizhu (a popular poker game in China) AI more efficiently, we decided to pivot from a light-weight poker game to a professional game trainer. This requires more complex product features, new information hierarchy, as well as a new set of interface.

I gained some experiences after the first product, so I could focus on details that I haven’t thought through in the last project, such as personas, design guidelines, etc.

We created personas based on workshops with our users.
Design explorations between portrait and horizontal view
Designing poker cards is quite fun.
Some interface details