While I was working on StarCraft II, my buddy, Ryan Schutter, and I starting thinking about doing a full UI revamp. Of course we were CRAZY to even think about it. It was going to be so much work! And there was little room on the schedule for it. BlizzCon was approaching, so we were going to be even busier in the very near term. Somehow none of that stopped us.

Ryan wanted to do a big cleanup like this for a long time, but never had the time or the help. But here I was, and I was excited to do it too! We’re odd people, honestly. If memory serves, this is how we reacted to our hair-brained idea: