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YouTube's New Hue

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Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by dangus »

dylan604 wrote: post #26
trentnix wrote: post #6

Six well-paid Google designers trumpeting a new…gradient. Maybe I’m too curmudgeonly for my own good, but that is quite underwhelming.

I feel the same way when my AWS console asked me to take survey on the EC2 console. I replied that I don't know which version I was meant to comment on since it changes every other week, and that I hope someone gets there performance bonus. My favorite question was "it feels modern". Like just leave the damn thing alone. Rather than worrying about useless small tweaks like a gradient, make sure the core features of t…

I hugely disagree on "leave the thing alone."

A whole lot of nooks and crannies of the AWS console are missing major convenience UI features, and usually when a console is redesigned it solves some reasonably major pain points.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by armchairhacker »

I sense that, albeit slowly, big companies are moving back to more complicated skeuomorphic-like designs.

Here YouTube’s adding a (very subtle) gradient. Better examples may be: compare the newest macOS icons to those from the Sierra (?); and the new Reddit logo has a slight 3D effect, while I remember the old one was flat.

Allegedly styles and fashion go in cycles, so maybe minimalism is going out of fashion. I doubt we’ll get old YouTube or OS X Snow Leopard, but we’ll get something different.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by roenxi »

josephg wrote: post #32
jsheard wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The least they could do is write up something as unhinged as that old Pepsi design strategy document. https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...

Thats amazing. Its in the uncanny valley where I can't tell if they're serious or if they're having a laugh. It immediately makes me think of the song "Redesign Your Logo" by Lemon Demon. Pure comedy.

It recalls to mind Don Quixote. Is it madness or genius? In the case of great art; who can rightly say.

It is clear they worked hard for their salary.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by darth_avocado »

trentnix wrote: post #6

Six well-paid Google designers trumpeting a new…gradient. Maybe I’m too curmudgeonly for my own good, but that is quite underwhelming.

What’s frustrating about tech industry is that they are probably getting paid multiple hundred thousands of dollars for this. Meanwhile I know of engineers at Google who are being managed out for “performance reasons” after being gaslighted into working 60+ hour work weeks.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by dangus »

trentnix wrote: post #6

Six well-paid Google designers trumpeting a new…gradient. Maybe I’m too curmudgeonly for my own good, but that is quite underwhelming.

I often think about how much more cost effective some companies' products would be if they would decide their product is "done" and that they accepted moving on into a cash cow type of phase.

There are major websites and web-based products like Craigslist, Wikipedia, and Steam that are handling insane Internet traffic with comparatively tiny levels of staffing when compared to YouTube or other giants.

I think those companies have accepted that there is no rush to make major innovations or changes and that hiring a large army of talent is far less cost effective than having teams that are small enough for everyone to know each other.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by stouset »

atonse wrote: post #16

I literally can’t read this blog post because it keeps jumping to the top of the page to play the video again and again. Maybe take 10% of the time you spent dreaming up new colors to just make your blog function like a regular page instead of adding a million weird animations?

Same here. It took six designers to change the color of the YouTube logo, but the design department of a company that built its entire existence on the web can’t build a functioning website.

Design is how it works. And your website doesn’t work.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by slater »

josephg wrote: post #32
jsheard wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The least they could do is write up something as unhinged as that old Pepsi design strategy document. https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...

Thats amazing. Its in the uncanny valley where I can't tell if they're serious or if they're having a laugh. It immediately makes me think of the song "Redesign Your Logo" by Lemon Demon. Pure comedy.

(i think it was also released as a joke, then everyone took it seriously)

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by jszymborski »

exogen wrote: post #10

A comment I made when I started noticing the magenta gradient at the end of the progress bar: it's a bit anxiety-inducing for those who remember needing to degauss their monitors, because it looks almost exactly like when you mess up a CRT with a magnet. (Aside from that: not a fan, it makes the chrome of the video player more distracting.)

I know I sound silly and dumb for feeling so strongly about something so small, but the gradient really gets on my nerves. It is indeed so subtle as to make it feel like something is wrong with the display, but not subtle enough that I don't notice it _every time_.

Similarly, the "glow" they introduced a while back makes it feel like I'm getting the worlds worst backlight bleed.

Mercifully I use FreeTube to watch YouTube which saves me from these design choices.

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