Six well-paid Google designers trumpeting a new…gradient. Maybe I’m too curmudgeonly for my own good, but that is quite underwhelming.
Clear sign of a bloated corp.
YouTube's New Hue
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#202Not the most ridiculous design update description I've read, but still tough to get through the whole page. What's the idea behind changing the cursor on desktop to a circular tap indicator?
Messing with the cursor like that feels so amazingly invasive and it makes using the page significantly more difficult. Is the point on the round cursor in the upper left? middle? who knows!
You don't have to worry about that because it very conveniently snaps to the click targets that you move it near. /s
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#203A 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.)
This is exactly what it feels like. "Oops, pushed my speaker too near my screen again."
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#204> You’ll hear from six people who helped spin the color wheel:
Maybe I'm being a bit mean to UI/UX in general, but does it really take 6 people to decide a slightly different shade of red ?
I do appreciate good UI and UX but sometimes it does seem some of them are just trying to justify spending so much time and money on these (to me at least) banal things..
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
omg yes this
Honestly, I really appreciate the bizarre, half-ass creativity that goes into these ads. I'm sad I missed this: > The video takes viewers on a bizarre journey from a strip club in Texas to a fake Harvard urologist’s office to an abandoned church in Thailand where scientists discovered a species of bat with abnormally large and long-lasting erections. Along the way, deepfake videos of everyone from Tom Hanks, Denzel W…
if you put a satirical news show logo in the corner, it becomes prime content
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#206> Robyn: To give YouTube a sense of motion, we created a dynamic red-to-magenta gradient. For the second color, orange and yellow were strong contenders, but magenta felt like the most natural pairing with our new red. Interestingly, magenta doesn't often appear in the natural world, so it symbolizes the imagination and evolution that YouTube embodies. We also placed the gradient at a 45-degree angle with magenta on…
After reading justifications like that, I find it hard not to feel cynical about people who suggest and promote such changes. Am I missing something important, or is this really just a fig leaf covering busywork, promotions, and internal politics? Every time I’ve had to implement a "fresh redesign" as a developer, it always seemed to be about scratching an itch for a higher-up or a designer.
They mention technical reasons like avoiding screen burn-in.
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
You just need to learn to embrace the Pepsi Universe: https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell... (For newcomers with limited time, scroll to the last 2 pages)
This is... genius, or parody? I can't tell.
The same folks (Arnell Group) did a redesign for Tropicana.
Tropicana lost 30 million dollars in sales and had to revert the change.
They also spent 35 million on a campaign to advertise the redesign (also ran by the Arnell Group)
https://www.thebrandingjournal.com/2015/05/what-to-learn-fro...
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#208I don't mind continuous redesigns or small tweaks. I like it when products and apps I use subtly but constantly change. Form and function are one, it's not form over function if it's done well. But for YouTube I wish they realized that the majority of the design visitors experience is in the user created content. And they should start policing it. A good first step would be to stop having user selected thumbnails. Vi…
That will never, ever happen, calm thumbnails lose them profit, but you'd like DeArrow https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dearrow/
Depends on how many people just refuse to ever click such a video on principle, or never start a youtube subscription so long as the thumbnails are like that. All you need to wait for is for that group to be bigger than the group of people who mindlessly click the sensational ones. I'm holding my breath until it happens.
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
After reading justifications like that, I find it hard not to feel cynical about people who suggest and promote such changes. Am I missing something important, or is this really just a fig leaf covering busywork, promotions, and internal politics? Every time I’ve had to implement a "fresh redesign" as a developer, it always seemed to be about scratching an itch for a higher-up or a designer.
They mention technical reasons like avoiding screen burn-in.
That's a great point I overlooked, thank you for bringing it up!
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#210This is a manifestation of Google drowning in excess headcount and unable to innovate because of endless fake make-work nonsense, where a team of highly compensated designers make the site less usable (gradient on the progress bar? Really?) and make changes for the sake of change, just to make it look like they are doing something.