I’ve done an experiment to analyze AAA UIs and how they were made by recreating them from scratch in Photoshop. Most of the techniques used were shapes and layer effects, then a bit of painting and texturing over top.
I don’t know for sure if the original user interfaces were built the same way, but this was quite a rewarding exercise anyways as it has pushed me to think of UI a bit differently and the challenge really unlocked some new abilities for me.
