Looking good! A few recs and notes:
Expand the size of the browse shops bar a bit - the icons are currently too close to the size of the item thumbnails. Also, unless the icons of the shops are redone, you're going to lose quality there by shrinking them to that size.
I hope the shop logos also stay a good size and quality - it would be a real shame to lose the artwork of Back Alley Bargains, say.
Ow, the whitespace. As people have said, perhaps some kind of translucent image behind the items? Maybe something using some reference to the old storefronts?
I like the little NPC image on the "Talk to" button - will the shops with multiple NPCs have multiple buttons and images like that?
The top tab bar is good, and reflective of the inventory/arranger setup -- but so far you've only shown us Mirai's shop. A typical clothing shop has "Hats-Tops-Bottoms-Shoes-Accessories-Items" - there enough room for that? What about in the salon, which has color tabs? What about the "New" and "By Price" tabs, will they exist, or at least will their sorting options exist somewhere?
Speaking of, now would be a good time to add more sorting besides "new" and "by price". "By color" would be amazing, though of course you'd have to build in a color tag of some kind...
As others have said, I'm hoping the display will show gold prices for the gold shops. Is there enough room for very high prices, though? It looks like you only have enough room for 3 digits right now.
Regarding the exchanges: no major requests. But giving it the same modality as seen in the inventories would be a great help; currently the links aren't tabbable and are kind of annoying in how you have to go through 3 pages to exchange things.
One big note -
previews. Now would be a great time to implement the "backwards" and "clothes removed" options. In case the newer devs don't recall some of their older, more obscure code, those options are visible in the
tattoo exchange, and can be seen by adding "&facing=back" or "&unequip=1" (or a combination) to the preview image url. (You can see an example and a bookmarklet
in my journal.)
Please don't implement the marketplace or Cash Shop preview code, it doesn't work with those options. However, the ability to see the different poses of multi-pose items would also be very helpful.
Can't wait to see what comes next, and hope you take at least some of the user feedback.
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