I Fixed YouTube's 2024 Redesign | Speed UI Design

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In the 84th episode of Demystifying Design, I'll be redesigning KZbin itself. KZbin has released an experimental redesign for 2024, and I couldn't help myself but polish it up.
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Important timestamps:
0:00 What's Wrong With KZbin?
0:51 KZbin's Design Constraints
1:55 Redesign Beings!
3:24 Video Player
4:38 Video Metadata
6:36 Comments
7:25 Related Videos
8:00 Redesign Finished!
This entire redesign took me about 6 hours to complete (over 1 day). Hope you enjoy!
Music licensed by Epidemic Sound:
Let's Go On A Trip, by Baegel
Taking Solace, by Gregory David
Run the Race, by Martin Hall
Final Target in Sight, by Trailer Worx
All content in this video is intended to be purely transformational in nature.
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[@DemystifyingDesign]

Trying to get better with my lighting and sound design. Still a lot to learn...I was looking down a lot at my script a bit too much, and the first few frames are a bit blurry. Getting a wee bit more polished each week though. 😎

[@yellowbebo]

oh you want some advice? im not exactly the best youtuber (having zero real videos as of now because i unlisted all of them) but i definitely researched enough to know how to improve this stuff for lighting i kid you not, just buy a sunlight lamp (the really yellow light) and a ring light (the cheap ones from amazon with like 2 buttons for + or - brightness, one for warm light or cool light or mix (get one with the mix option) and one for power.) sound wise, learn eq and that's it. im not even kidding, but big point here, im not that experienced with sound and i DONT KNOW EQ myself

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Lol it's a constant struggle. I have a box light and a ring light but always seem to be in a position where I can't control the ambient light in my room, leading to really inconsistent fill lighting. Appreciate the suggestions, going to keep tinkering away

[@mvargasmoran]

the new 2024 UI is pure visual pollution. it looks like the lawyer from idiocracy watching Ow My Balls surrounded by ads.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Lmao

[@FreshFromReddit13]

not only that if you put videos on que to watch you see that the que is hiden on the botom right and if you maxmizeit it takes the hole comentesection/subscribe/like making it unusable and i recently noticed that it discurajed me from liking a video

[@RipVanFish09]

"Theres a few problems" _Everything_

[@DemystifyingDesign]

😂😂

[@vivoslibertos]

There's no problem that why they creating it as it's spicen up the idiocracy ROFL

[@MrGuy125]

Its way more tolerable in theatre mode but there is no justifying just how garbage this redesign is like all they had to do was nothing and they still managed to fuck it up

[@DemystifyingDesign]

For real...

[@ferociousgumby]

I find that in theatre mode I can still see the tops of those HUGE thumbnails, and they literally jut up into your field of vision. It's OK on full screen, but I don't always want some guy's face filling the screen. Why was this seen as an improvement???

[@ferociousgumby]

I did something absolutely ridiculous today, but it did improve my viewing in theatre mode. I took a piece of black fabric ribbon and taped it on the bottom of the screen, masking the tops of the huge thumbnails. Imagine having to paste stuff on your computer screen to make it watchable. Now I have double-sided tape all over my screen, and have to keep taking it off again to do other things.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Damn dude that's some serious commitment to the cause. Stay strong out there 💪😎💪

[@harryhack91]

Damn muscle memory. I wanted to read the comments and immediately started scrolling down... Only to realize instants later that the comments are now on the right...

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Yeah theyre super easy to miss. Almost as if they are sending the signal " we don't care about your community, we just want your attention"

[@handymatt1970]

i dont like it at all, just shoving junk under the screen you don't want to look at

[@ferociousgumby]

My main struggle is trying to find the little symbols that allow me to do things like make clips, save videos to watch later/playlists, etc. I couldn't find them at all at first. I also wanted to display my "watch later" playlist on the right-hand side as I watch, but you have to toggle back and forth between the title, etc. and the playlist. Just stupid!

[@yourself9525]

the amount of self-control to not ask for a subscription in this context is crazy

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Ah...didn't think of that.....damn that would have been a nice cheeky meme too

[@Gronky152]

they just rolled this out for real and i was led to this video in a panic because i do not like it

[@electricz3045]

just found out about this today

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Oh no...I thought it was just a test?

[@-JustHuman-]

Same. I send in feedback so they knew it's shit.

[@CastBlastCamp]

I HATE this new UI, and since im not a tech savvy person I guess I'm stuck with this garbage layout... UGH why youtube??!!!??

[@electricz3045]

@@CastBlastCamp pHopefully there will be an Browser Extension to revert it soon

[@super-six-four]

my vote for you for a position "YT main designer"

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Thanks mate that's very kind 🙏

[@super-six-four]

@@DemystifyingDesign np. but do not disappoint us all and return previous layout (or yours) 😁

[@DemystifyingDesign]

:o

[@edhahaz]

Google has been deprioritizing search. (on all of their products) ... in favour of irrelevant garbage.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

It seems to be that way!

[@alfredbydesign]

You made me smile when you said "I'm just a random designer, I can do whatever I want..." Love seeing designers have fun!

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Oh yes the only time we get to have fun lol

[@MinCalm]

Sincerely hoping this one gets rolled back. I know i've gotten used to a lot of redesigns over the years, but this one really feels shitty.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

A significant step back I agree!

[@ferociousgumby]

If they gave us the CHOICE to use this format, fine, but I don't think anyone would. The "fixes" I've seen look far too hazardous for a non-tech person like me. But I will say that in 15 years of using YT, I have never had a problem using any of the features, so I have not HAD to go into my Chrome settings, install new software, etc. and I do not want to start now.

[@fauxset]

Very nice video. I hate the new current UI with the comments pushed to the side & the bloated recommended videos at the bottom. Hoping they change it soon.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

It stopped after a few days for me - I think it's an A/B test

[@ferociousgumby]

@@DemystifyingDesign From what I am seeing in the comments here and in many other videos, A LOT of people have just had this sprung on them with no warning whatsoever. I also noticed when I posted content, the setup was completely different and many of the settings were no longer there. I have NO idea what that is about or how much trouble I could get in if I don't fill those things in, but they are no longer there! A couple of things had "experiment" beside them, so maybe this is just another one? But why use us as guinea pigs for something everyone hates??

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Because you have no choice in the matter! No competition, so if you don't like the changes, oh well 🙃

[@SphereFps]

Call me weird, but i quite like the comments being on the side and by extension scrolling through them not causing the video to be relegated to sound only. I feel like if youtube just put the video information back to where it was i would be happy, as it would be best of both world for me.

[@ambiguousdrink4067]

I just got the new UI and I have to say it's terrible. I rarely used the sidebar to find new videos and now 4/5 of my screen are filled by attention-grabbing thumbnails while I'm reading some very squished comments. The "Expand" option for the comment section is very useful and I wish I could have it while also having the old UI. I just don't get why youtube doesn't allow its users to choose between comments below and videos on the sidebar or the other way around. Make a switch like with dark and light modes. Also I like your design a lot. I think there is a little "wasted" space here, like the video sidebar could be a little to the right and the video player bigger and to the left, but it looks very neat and nice. 👍

[@DemystifyingDesign]

I really like the idea of expanding comments! Seems like best of both worlds.

[@D_Wito]

I thought more of completely foldable / completely unfoldable single column of recomendations, so you could focus on comments or give yourself a little look at recomendations while reading comments or just go search for something similar to what you are watching

[@ruben4447]

Making the View count and Date more visible is probably one of the most important things KZbin should add. It always takes a few seconds for me to find all those things because they are in the middle of the caption.

[@ferociousgumby]

Oops, here I am again. Everything looks blurry today - has YT taken away the HD feature? Or is it just me going partially blind? I am not surprised at anything YT does now, but I am too low-tech to start trying to fix it.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Happens to me sometimes as well, likely just a connection issue

[@COMAXETERNAL]

"If it ain't Broke, Break It." - KZbin, Probably

[@DemystifyingDesign]

😅😅

[@rubub8455]

At the very least, allow us to stretch and squash different parts of the UI like the comments so we can control how much of the screen those parts take up

[@creamofbotulismsoup9900]

I just got hit with this horrific UI today, whoever decided this was a good idea has brain worms.

[@TheHermitProcess]

KZbin is a mess. Recommending shorts when I’m watching long form is ridiculous.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Yeah they want to live rent free in the bottom of your brain stem 🙃

[@TheHermitProcess]

@@DemystifyingDesign yeah see KZbin is one platform I do not mind living rent free in my mind. Bombard me with ads sure, but at least do it in a smart way 😅😅

[@DemystifyingDesign]

For real!

[@therrydicule]

And I now got that new UI on one of my accounts, but not the other. And I hate it...

[@D_Wito]

Check incognito mode or other device, if it has previous UI you should be able to revert (at least for now) by clearing browser cache. For me it worked. But first let them know what doesn't work in their new design, the more feedback they have the better chances they hire someone who used PC before. Its their 2nd try at dumb desktop UI designs, no idea if my prevous feedback did anything but I guess there are people with brain in google (previous try didn't succeed and probably evolved into this as it has some ideas common just placed a little differently) so if they got hit with tons of complaints with new UI design they would notice that there's some waste of budget going on.

[@Sarah-Loves-Flan]

You should be able to x out recommended videos on the side that you aren’t interested in.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Oooh good idea!

[@stan3473]

I don't like this new layout. Moving the video description, like, subscribe, and comment sections to the right side makes everything too narrow. Meanwhile, many well-organized creator descriptions become messy because of the cramped space. The KZbin comments section, which mostly consists of lengthy comments, becomes confusing as everything stretches vertically downward. My wide monitor becomes useless for reading descriptions and comment columns.

[@ferociousgumby]

I have a horrible update: my format has switched back to the side comments/video thumnails below the screen. I guess I thought the experiment was over, but apparently not! I have nowhere to turn to turn to try to fix this, and right now I don't even know if I'm the only one who has it. I don't know why they're doing this - AGAIN.

[@VideoInvasion]

The exact same thing just happened to me today. I sent feedback last time to get it fixed. Fingers crossed sending feedback works again.

[@ferociousgumby]

@@VideoInvasion I have no idea how widespread this is, or why they're doing it. My worst fear is that the last run was a test-case, then they decided it was successful and are pulling this on everyone.

[@ferociousgumby]

To my great dismay, I find I can no longer create a clip from a KZbin video. The clip symbol is still there, and you can set the parameters of it, but there is no "create clip" button. When you click "keep", it just disappears. Has this function been terminated or what? What other features will no longer work for me?

[@DemystifyingDesign]

I know certain channels can prevent you from creating clips from their content. Did you check a few?

[@ferociousgumby]

@@DemystifyingDesign I haven't checked that yet. Earlier in the day yesterday, I tested it out and easily made 2 short clips. I'll mess around with it today. Does prayer help, I wonder?

[@ferociousgumby]

@@DemystifyingDesign I tried this again today, and while it seems to make the clip, there is no way of saving it. The "create clip" button is not there any more. I've tried 5 or 6 different videos, so it's not that. I do wonder if YT has disabled this feature now.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

You were just part of an A/B test I bet

[@ferociousgumby]

@@DemystifyingDesign Well, now it works. For now, until it doesn't. But some people have had everything go back to normal for a few hours, then slammed back on them again.

[@treboron2423]

Love how one of the biggest companies cant do their only job properly

[@DemystifyingDesign]

I guess it depends on what you think their job is. If their job is to maximize attention and not get muscled at by the competition, this is a really good idea. However, if you think their job is to exclusively provide the most user-friendly viewing experience, this is of course not the optimal solution

[@Wellington-nl7vm]

What I don't get with the new UI is that if video recommendations is the focus here, I could view more of them with the old UI when it was to the right. Now they just increaded the thumbnail sizes so it can only fit 3 video recommendations without me having to scroll down

[@DemystifyingDesign]

They must have tested this and found that it results in more clicks anyway

[@mediaeducativa3339]

I really like the design you made but is it purely a graphics proposal or can you actually convert this into an extension or something for KZbin & Chrome with the software you are using?

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Unfortunately it is purely a design proposal, there's no way to use this as your actual UI today.

[@glaz126]

They need to fire the design team. Or at least those who approved this mess that is the 2024 ui.

[@jackzugna5830]

In my opinion, there should also be a better button for automatic translation of comments, adding the possibility to select the translation language and not the default one based on where you created your Google account; moreover, this function should be added to all of KZbin and not just the videos, as in shorts it is not always possible to translate, especially in user responses. KZbin also tends to translate video titles, this also needs to be indicated more clearly because it is not clear if it is translated or in my language.

[@alunadexter6817]

for some reason my suggested videos aren't showing.

[@aNaughtyFox]

Just got the new UI. Thanks for nothing, youtube. Now I want to spend even less time on this site :/

[@midnightstrider8579]

i was looking up how to get back the old ui because it looked horrendous just to get it back after watching this video. thank you kind sir(no i didnt comment on the wrong thing, i got it back as i opened the link for this video)

[@MaxHDeveloping]

Ive decided to stay. Ive come back to your videos multiple times now. Always mice content. Im now a subscriber 👍

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Eyyyy! Glad you're enjoying them max :). Lmk if the vids ever start being not nice lol

[@MarkoH01]

Just told yotube in feedback that the design is unusuable and I won't use youtube any longer if they don't revert it.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

The problem is though is that YT is so pervasive, where will you go? Vimeo? 😅

[@stevendiaz7633]

@@DemystifyingDesign I mean it is pretty bad. THey are trying to use way to many videos by size.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Agreed!

[@ferociousgumby]

@@DemystifyingDesign During all that COPPA fiasco (which everyone has now completely forgotten about), people were desperately scrambling to find an alternate to KZbin. There simply isn't one. Somehow the COPPA thing got resolved, but I have to mark every single video "for kids" or "not for kids", as YT's instructions were incredibly vague. But if people tried to protest, they were actually threatened with lawsuits!

[@megalofauna]

Homerun again for me. 👍 I have no plans to stop using KZbin, but I agree with your rationale and changes. This is a nice upgrade.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Yeah same here - it's a really complex design problem they're trying to solve. If only the world was as simple as it is in Figma 🥲

[@skyscraperfan]

I had the old design until this morning and now I got this totally new design. I hat it show much that I even thing about not watching KZbin until they revert it. I hate recommendations. Especially if they are based on videos that I watched on the past, although I have turned off my watch history. This new design is just horrible. A quick fix was hiding the recommendations with uBlock origin, but that leaves a large empty area. So I will have to try other browser extensions that revert the new design.

[@Flying-Bunny]

And now that the new UI is widely rolled out, we seriously want (need ?) an extension to make it look like yours (or similar)

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Yeah this is something I've considered building. I have like 20 other priorities right now though :(

[@georgemichelakis1202]

Is it possible for you to create a custom CSS script for the google chrome extension "Enhancer for KZbin" based on this design?

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Possible yes, but likely no

[@Maltebyte2]

I completely fail to understand why WHY on earth they have to fiddle with it!?

[@calholli]

Because they don't want comments to be the center of attention.. It's just another layer of censorsh^p/ suppr3ssion.

[@ferociousgumby]

Just had this thing kick in last night, and I was in a panic, wondering if my computer had had a nervous breakdown or what. I need a FIX for this that does not revert me back to 2016 or so. YT HAS made some positive changes and gradually added some features that I definitely want to keep. I don't want to be back in the Stone Age again. Any fixes I've seen involve installing things or trying to change settings in Chrome or other things I do not trust myself to do without making a worse mess.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Yeah I feel you on that one - they've been making good incremental changes. This one feels a bit desperate - I think short form is really hurting their retention data.

[@FellowCinnaEnjoyer]

I personally hate this update and my biggest problem is when I want to see the description of the video for links on PC Usually the description of the video would be already shown but with the new update you would need to click on title like when u use it mobile i dont know if its just me but when I click on it ON PC it wont work and everything on side would disappear which i find very annoying Worst part is i cant fix it :(

[@user-gx5nq7bi9m]

5:30 I already check that before clicking, all I do after that evaluate the video and check comments

[@chandrakanx]

Your design is the cannon but maybe you could retain the pill shaped button, making it look modern and also stands out from other platforms

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Yeah fair enough! I did go a bit generic with this redesign

[@comatose1818]

SO i cam one day to youtube to find fucked beyond belief the comments were tiny and I had ZERO recommended vids, so i had to go back to the home page every time I wanted to watch another video, I had to look up tutorials and ended up moving browsers in hope of restring the old look, I had to add an ad blocker and plop a bit f code into it and now it's mostly back to normal for me, I have to scroll on the sides instead of anywhere but it's better than THAT, I don't expect anything from Yt and they still disappoint me

[@Eddneton94]

ill be honest, if the current design would be only used for Shorts, nobody would have an issue with it. the idea of having the chat on the side couldve been a feature, that you enable like the auto play slider, if only it where implemented in a way that you can scroll the comments with a seperate scrollbar so you can watch the video while reading comments. also major downgrade is the left sidebar now throwing a needless fullscreen shadow on everything and overlapping 1/5th of the player. there is no reason to do that.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Hmm, what do you mean if this was only used for shorts? I don't see how you could fit a sidebar in a mobile-only view

[@Eddneton94]

@@DemystifyingDesign should've specified shorts on desktop.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Ahhh yeah that makes a lot of sense actually

[@Dummio-yp6wn]

Does anyone know how to fix the new KZbin player on Android ?

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Wait did the player change too?

[@blenderstudio159]

that really looks nice.. very clean ui.. you should design the youtube home page also .

[@Iloverimjobs]

This update just rolled in for me today, I immediately submitted a user feedback for the first time just to angrily type out how much I hated it, then proceeded to get a chrome extension that reverted the UI change.

[@blockshift758]

A design i wanna see is for comment to work like how it does on mobile. Scroll but don't hide the video.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

That's a good point haven't considered that the comment experience on desktop is in shambles lol

[@ferociousgumby]

@@DemystifyingDesign I don't think YT wants to use desktop format any more and wants to force us all to use our phones exclusively. Probably down to $$$.

[@yellowbebo]

man if only we could have this be real

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Fr...

[@marco27c1]

Wish I could use your design, much better that YT 2024.

[@handymatt1970]

the yt screen today on PC relocates likes and views when in live chat it hides likes its not good

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Oof....

[@D_Wito]

At least its caused selectively by some cache, clear cache and you are back to previous one. (just don't forget to give them solid feedback thats what they are asking for), at least it worked for me 2nd day after I got hit with it. (you can check in incognito mode if its previous one there you should revert to it by clearing browser cache) and your redesign won't be a solution for me, I need whole width used by video itself, current design (the previous from selectively pushed to people) is quite decent (years of improvements), I don't see any need for redesigning that, at most they could make video similar-recomendations unfoldable so you could have more as its with new design (but only when you feel like it, being able to fold it alltogether would be good as well so it only apears after you unfold it a little or completely) It would be even better if you could attach video so it would stay always on top and scroll everything else below it (remember why we are on YT, firstly to watch videos, after that get information from them and talk on related topics in comments or save video for later, rest is additional much less important features... well except of moneymaking, but thats only for channels and google, still they need to find money in main features, going elsewhere leads you elsewhere). Though its experience of user with 4K screen, so I most often use only half of my screen for web browser (with YT in theater mode, though on other sites they even darken everything else so you can focus on video while new YT UI design drowns you in colors and you are not even sure wheres the video you came for or its title) or as multiple separate windows cause its much better to have vertical screen for browsing. Also save to playlist could open right above a button so selection would be closer to where your mouse/finger is. Except for that I don't see much room for improvement of UI on video page of YT.

[@EduKan20]

i'm fine with the comments on the side, but the video title and other relevant information should be in the correct place. comments and recommendations should share the same space in a tabbed layout.

[@ferociousgumby]

You know, I'm not finding any other videos about this topic anywhere. What's going on here? Why the secrecy? Or is it just affecting a handful of seniors on desktop with no money to spend? YT surely doesn't care much about THEM.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Yeah its definitely an a/b test that only goes to a handful of people at once

[@ferociousgumby]

@@DemystifyingDesign But is it permanent? Us seniors don't have much time left to wait.

[@ferociousgumby]

@@DemystifyingDesign I'm probably going to watch full-screen all the time now. It's the only way to get rid of those thumbnails, but I suppose the full-screen feature will be taken away so you can't do that.

[@DiaborMagics]

For me it seems to have been rolled back. Am I just lucky? Though another issue I have with their design philosophy is that everything I want to do needs extra clicks. Even in the reverted UI. Over time they've made making Playlists directly from unwatched videos or adding them to the queue less consistent and often I have to click the 3 dots first. Before, clicking the clock on the thumbnail was enough. They sometimes still appear, but not consistent. Playlists in the sidebar too, it doesn't expand anymore but takes you to the full Playlist page. And Google itself removed the download bar from Chrome in favor of that stupid bubble every browser uses and yjou need more clicks there now too. The bar was THE main feature and reason to use chrome for me. Actually atrocious how this happens to more and more. It's like they want to make the user experience as horrible as possible (or see what they can get away with because they have little competition and that's so bad for the users....). My mind was blown when in de redesign they would open the description on top of the rest as a new layer you needed to close out of. And not in a good way.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

I think I got it rolled back too, not sure how. I was very careful about not clicking on recommendations, but who knows. Yeah, it's kind of nuts how much pressure is put on users to just watch watch watch these days.

[@anirudh_s17]

I like your redesign, but I think the text on the subscribe button should be more obvious. Personally, I like the change to black since KZbin now adds a rainbow highlight whenever the word "subscribe" is mentioned in the video.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Yeah in retrospect it is quite hard to read

[@Baalaaxa]

Great stuff, thumbs up! The official 2024 KZbin redesign is CRAP. They made every design error possible with the new UI; They removed the video title from the player itself, scrunching all important information (title, channel name, description, etc), all the controls, and the comments section - which by the way all add to the user engagement - to the right side. And it's way too crowded. Often even the channel name is truncated because of the Subscribe button. And what did they do with the freed space below the video? They added thumbnails of recommended videos which just distract me from the content I'm currently enjoying. Often I DO NOT want to see those while I'm trying to concentrate on the video (thanks ADHD), so I enjoy watching videos in theater or full-screen mode. And now in the theater mode I need to scroll down to see even the basic information like the channel name, Subscribe button, Like/Dislike buttons, etc. while all I see below the video are the suggested videos; just a distraction. It fucking sucks. I hate it. If I wanted to see the recommendations, I would not use the theater mode. They got it pretty much right initially, adding little features here and there. This is clearly a downgrade. Just bring back the like/dislike ratio, and DO NOT FIX WHAT IS NOT BROKEN!

[@kanthor7670]

oh thank god I thought my computer was fucking up this UI is horrible

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Hahaha yeah the scrunched up related videos are really weird

[@ferociousgumby]

The only consolation I've found is that SOOOOO many other people got hit with this at exactly the same time as me. So it's not me, but what the f*** to do about it? The fixes are not anything I want to hazard.

[@kikedli]

for me the recommendations aren't even showing

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Oof sorry to hear mate

[@kaviramyead7987]

It should be like this and add a way to pin the video so you can scroll comments and keep watching

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Ooooh, I really like the idea of pinning the video. Should have thought of that!

[@edhahaz]

Making the header bigger is absolutely not the way to go I feel like.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Mind elaborating? What problem is created by making the header larger?

[@edhahaz]

​@@DemystifyingDesign ​ Less available space when reading comments, although the added transparency helps.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Ah yeah that makes sense. I think I should have introduced some sort of collapsing header when you scroll or something. Definitely cut corners with the header to put this in a YT video

[@megalofauna]

Oh the desktop? The larger header doesn't bother me at all there. And I rather like it aesthetically as well.

[@ZenthAScar]

This move is like a microsoft doing in their Win8 back then Thinking that their userbase is only on mobile while we're still using desktop watching it in horizontal big screen. And this gigantic thumbnail is really bad in this big horizontal screen 😡😡😡 And also, since the comment section is on the right side while the emoji window is still the same (no horizontal scroll), a few of emoji has been hide due to being cut on the right side 😡😡😡

[@shawbag11]

I had the awful new lauout forced on me this week and i thought it was perminate. Thankfully today it went back to normal but my god this last week as been pain dealing with that awful new layout.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

I'm sorry :(

[@Ann-fi6ep]

dp not like new deseign

[@AdamJensenReal]

Now I want to use your UI design for youtube :D. Also I want to add 1 more thing that is new they made Fonts extremely tiny and I don't see any option to increase font to increase the whole UI because its so tiny and when I'm on the couch 3meters away I cant see shit. :D Hope to find some addon or the UI designers of google to think a bit with their stupid heads...

[@93Froster]

this new yt design is so awful it is hard to belive they seriously did it. It makes yt almost unsusable for me as coments are unreadable and cant focus on anything because of thumbnails everywhere.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

I know :(

[@Zegur]

theres a video on using unblock origin to revert it back to look like the old

[@thegreatpigeon8999]

"They have to remain competetive" Well, this is not how they should try and do that 😐

[@BlazinRiver1]

It would seem YT could get more vids/shorts on the side. Removing the video info from beneath the vid to the side bar makes no sense. May as well stop wasting my money on a monthly subscription for crap. These are the same people censoring American.....glad I am 66 and on my way out of this shit show.

[@willsmith9726]

They're moving towards TikTok, with no reading at all.

[@sageisexisting]

I just got this😭

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Sorry mate :(

[@sageisexisting]

@@DemystifyingDesign its alright

[@ferociousgumby]

Ain't it awful?

[@sageisexisting]

@@ferociousgumby it is:D The worst part is that i am very easily distracted, so the new layout makes me even more distracted than as is

[@ferociousgumby]

@@sageisexisting I heard that this change was made so you could read comments AND watch the video at the same time. Just try it! You can read the top 3 or 4, but then you have to scroll down, and - oopsy! - there goes the video screen! You can't see it anymore. Great improvement, that. So what IS the advantage? It may well be that they want to shove the recommended videos in our faces with HUGE thumbnails that we can't ignore. Even theatre mode still shows the thumbnails (surrounded by white) pushing up from the bottom, so it's impossible not to be distracted. I've been trying to set up a physical "blind" to cover the bottom of the screen. But what a stupid thing to have to do! Full screen is OK, but only good for high-res things, and most of the stuff I like to watch is older. The default setting is driving me crazy.

[@Rykyuby]

Tbh i honestly hope youtube gets nothing but backlash for this god awful UI and if they refuse to change it i really hope people boycottt the platform

[@DemystifyingDesign]

We shall see!

[@PlatinumDragonFish]

This UI change is so stupid, there is zero reason to change it

[@DemystifyingDesign]

KZbin sees it as an existential necessity unfortunately

[@R1project0]

IT JUST HAPPENED TO ME IT'S FUCKING GROSS, WHY? IT LOOKS LIKE OT WAS DESIGNED BY MIDDLESCHOOLERS WHO ARE TESTING DRUGS FOR THE FIRST TIME

[@Albert-Duz-It]

I can't stand the new design. I just installed the extension "Enhancer for KZbin" from the official Chrome Store.

[@TheRealSpicke]

Wow this just went live with me. Wth is this shit?

[@statelyelms]

How they let this ancient ass UI format through is beyond me. It's so uncomfortable. Plus, I get two massive recommendations per row.. and if I open the description (with two clicks! fun!) it takes up the entire page because it's so crammed. If it's not broke, don't fix it. Except they've been chipping away at the corners with a crowbar for months to years now, and then this month they got out the sledgehammer..

[@statelyelms]

Basically, what they've tried to do (I think) is: - Increase the size of recommendations (bad) - decrease the size of description etc. (very bad.. that was important, and the less useful stuff already took up so little space) - make comments scrollable as you watch (good!) Why they felt the need to make it like THIS, however, is beyond me. It feels like Baby's First Video-Based Social Media UI. The scale of elements based on their usefulness is all out of whack. This comment I'm typing can fit 6 words per line. That's uncomfortable. It's also getting very tall. Even more uncomfortable.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

If it's not broke dont fix it - That's what I'm saying!!

[@ferociousgumby]

@@DemystifyingDesign I did not think I could display my playlists down the right-hand side any more, and was in a panic. You have to literally toggle back and forth between the comments and the playlists. It is just incredible.

[@Tuttomenui]

I swear shitty changes like this are just some idiot who shouldn't have a job anymore trying to justify they employment. Google does this to chrome all the time to, keep changing icons and shit that doesn't matter but they make it ugly. Pretty good example of why youtube can't be profitable, they have to many employees for what the site does.

[@Secretlyanothername]

I do not like the redesign at all. I'm trying to watch a video and keep having my attention drawn away from it to the videos below. It sucks.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

That's what they want though! Your attention is not mandatory, only your eyeballs 👀👀

[@Secretlyanothername]

If I click on another video they get to serve another ad! Jokes on them though, I'm just going to listen to podcasts now, this version pulling my attention in different directions literally hurts my brain.@@DemystifyingDesign

[@ferociousgumby]

@@DemystifyingDesign Today I tried to post a video just to see if it would still work. It did, but the information I had to fill in was COMPLETELY different and a lot of things had been removed. Has anyone else experienced this in uploading? It is just radically, drastically different, and no doubt YT will say I didn't fill it in properly and give me strike.

[@user-lk4kp4by7u]

If some Deltarune chapter gonna be happening in KZbin. Secret boss gonna be dislike button

[@vivoslibertos]

Coz youtube cannot afford to pay smart designer like you ROFL

[@Xscapeplan01]

The new UI is hideous and very distracting hopefully they'll listen to the complaints and revert back

[@calholli]

oh.. so this video was a waste of time and not an actual solution.. wonderful

[@DemystifyingDesign]

🤣🤣🤣

[@danilomoraes7040]

Ficou uma bosta e sequer deixam alguma opção para escolher.

[@astrealove2247]

I just want the old UI back. The new UI is horrible. Your design is the way I'd want it to be, at least the gist of it. All I ask for is comments below the video, and recommended videos to the right of the video I'm currently watching. They didn't have to change anything, it was good just the way it was, it worked in 2009, and it also works in 2024. KZbin doesn't have to become TikTok.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Mine went away after a few days!

[@ferociousgumby]

@@DemystifyingDesign Do you have a special blessing for this, or should we call an exorcist?

[@DemystifyingDesign]

@@ferociousgumby I had to sacrifice my first born 😅

[@realtruth529]

Worst youtube design EVER. They clearly dont want us to read and use comments ! It looks so bad I cant expres my dislike enough. I used an extension ASAP to get a bit out of that awful design experience. Google is becoming a nightmare company like every other tech gigant, all about cash and never about giving the user a better experience. Design team kids at google must be completely out of touch with reality of what makes users happy. I recommend bumping up size to 120 now for bigger reading size. Or making a protest march and boycut if the persist on this level of stupidity and malice upon users.. Change to BRAVE broweser or other browsers to show them, what we think aobut this endless attack of free speech and data collection.

[@mocrohas]

i feel sick when im using that disgusting design. it feels like a messy room. you have everything on room but not organised. ANXIETY

[@Mr8ohms]

I HATE IT SOMUCH!!!

[@HarryNicNicholas]

so another video that rambles on but doesn't actually show anyone how to restore the old look.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

This is an experimental redesign lmao

[@cosmin4798]

this ui is bull**** and hideous

[@stevendiaz7633]

THis is terrible

[@ferociousgumby]

When I try to upload things, the information to fill in is totally different. Is anyone else having this? What is going on here???

[@ChristopherPerez-lo5ti]

try talking less and going straight to the point

[@DemystifyingDesign]

Lmao

[@killxsad]

for some reason im not getting this UI when I use it regularly, but in incognito mode its loading the new UI, wtf is wrong? i have a yt color changer extension but disabling that doesn't seem to fix. not that I'm complaining I'm more than happy that it happens but just curious why is it happening.

[@DemystifyingDesign]

It's probably what's known as as "a/b test". YT only tries a certain layout out vs. a subset of their audience, to see if people actually click on things. If they do, they publish it for everyone.