Cute Cooking Companion Gaming App for Desktop and Tablet

Hi all! Nice to meet you, I'm Jana. 💕

I started UI design around a week ago, and this is my first personal design!

The game concept is a cooking game where you can obtain magical cooking companions, that aid you and provide certain benefits, with whom you can also play mini-games.

The key focus here is to provide a cute-sy interface that's still functional, not too overloaded and easy to read to reduce cognitive load and keep it fun and easy to play. I chose a simple design to cater to the likely target audience of not just women, but mostly younger children. In this way, it's kept inclusive and for a large audience.

On the left is the desktop version, and on the right we have a tablet version.

Any advice and/or feedback would be greatly appreciated! Thank you for any likes and saves :) ❤️

Here is the close-up of the tablet version. With some formatting and text size decreases, an equivalently functioning screen is seen just as on the desktop version.

The slider buttons are placed on either side of the character so as to make use of empty space and to make a more even spread of buttons on the screen.

And finally here are the key components, including a colour palette, inspiration for the buttons as well as trials of information formatting. This was necessary in making the UI become as engaging. Inspiration for buttons was also taken from games such as Yokai Watch, which has a mildly similar art style and game design for this idea.

All art included belong to their respective artist(s).

Once again, I would love to hear any comments you have! Thank you. ❤️