Valorant

Kill Banners

Redesign

September 2023

UI Designer

Design Team

Allison Hao

Keywords

Iconography

Tools

Figjam, Illustrator, Photoshop

This mini project is a quick, personal exploration of kill banners in the popular fps, VALORANT. (Note: This project is unrelated to the work done in UXiF! and Riot Games)

Why redesign?

After losing a clutch to a failed melee kill, my friends banned me from making anymore melee kills in the future. This prompted me to re-imagine exciting visualizations of kill banners in a system where the banners for each weapon category is different. Thus, making melee kills matter to some degree.

While working on this, my favourite phantom skin was criticized and I sought to also prove that the Protocol 781-A skin line is one of the best.

Research

I started off the project researching current in-game assets, such as default kill banners, skins and ADS UI. While creating the set of icons for the Protocol skin line, I also took inspiration from sci-fi games such as Ghostrunners, Cyberpunk 2077 and others. I heavily referenced the Protocol skin release trailer and examined other in-game kill banners.