The UI of HUMANKIND  is beautiful, but the UI of the city operation interface is difficult to use.

For example, when the player opens the city interface, it is often to build the District and Infrastructure, but most of the interface is occupied by fixed information, and the high-frequency building functions are hidden on the next screen.

Moreover, even if you slide to the Infrastructure column, there are too few Infrastructures (only 2 x 4 = 8) displayed on the same screen, and it is impossible to quickly locate the Infrastructure you want to build.

There is also a lack of distinction between the Infrastructure icons.

A very strange phenomenon, the icon of a Infrastructure is not a Infrastructure, but …… a person, which makes it difficult to find the Infrastructure you want to build at a glance.

And, ListMode cannot change this problem

In Listmode, commonly used building functions are still hidden on the next screen

And the Listmode here is actually a small icon mode, there is no text description, it is even more difficult to understand and quickly locate.

The evil result of this UI is that when players build more cities (I believe that each king has his own territory, the wider the better), the operation of building each round is very cumbersome. Lead to a fragmention of operation and flow experience.

The original post hit the nail on the head.  This UI visually is a beautiful piece of art,  functionally however, for a game that’s done so many things right, it is a disaster.

At first I thought it was just my inexperience with the game, perhaps there’s an adjustment period between the lists of Civ and the pictures of Humankind.  Now that I’ve played three open devs and have about 100 hours’ played (around 70 in steam and over 30 in Stadia) the problems I’ve had since my first game as Babylon to my games in the Lucy open dev, are the same.

There are two problems I’ve experienced:

1)  Given the sheer quantity of things to build in this type of game, using 4x2 involves tons of scrolling.  This makes it time consuming to build things at the bottom of the list.

2)  It’s hard to find things in this UI. There are so many items condensed into such a small area, it’s very difficult to quickly find what you are looking for.  This problem is exacerbated by the fact that everything is also constantly moving, based on what you have built along with what technology you have.

List mode solves problem 1 but makes problem 2 worse.

Bottom line, in its current state this UI is inefficient, and those who don’t mod it will be at a major competitive disadvantage in multiplayer.

The best UI I’ve ever seen for this type of game is the civilization 5 mod Enhanced user interface.   If you want to see what it looks and functions like, there is a great example in the YouTube video titled, Civ 5: Single vs Multiplayer - Ep. 5 - War in Multiplayer (ft. FilthyRobot) uploaded by Marbozir they show the UI multiple times throughout the video the first is at 6:07.

You can download it from forums.civfanatics.com if you want to try it yourself.