"we" - I am pretty sure a company as large as youtube runs plenty of A and B testing whilst recording our every movement on the platform, to figure out exactly what design and layout suits the masses. Just because some of us like this redesign, does not make it an inferior product to anyone but you.
youtube is definitely one of those platforms that you use so often and for so long that you genuinely forget that it can be improved this much. great work!!
@from my experience, I use mobile 99% time to watch RUclips videos, not computers, PC e. t. c. And yeah you can also get extensions, but then you need to use specific browser and they don't even have all the extensions that PC have so I'd rather use native app
I dove into the overpopulated comments section looking for this. What kind of degenerate clicks on the "trending" page of RUclips? I forgot to log in once and it defaulted to that. I still see it when I close my eyes.
That's why UI isn't UX. You can redesign UI all the way you want, but it won't change your experience. Google products aren't consistent, it's true, but Google probably knows it's good enough.
I love how she makes a point every time she's redesigning something. I always feel like it's useless to redesign such products but when I watch the whole video, then it makes sense. This is one of the reason why I think you're the best UI/UX designer on youtube.
Remember back in 2010 you could literally change the ENTIRE background of your channel lol. I think you could even change the color and background of the subscribe button (as in: design your own subscribe button in photoshop and upload as a picture onto your channel). OH, and there were even achievements you could unlock? Like, having a video reach a certain amount of clicks or being in the Top 20 of your countries channels or something like that. You got I think even little trophies being displayed on your channel? Anyone remember that? I still have no idea why they took that away from us, every single channel was so personalized and unique, now everything looks the same
They also used to allow animated avatars (which were frequently abused so I'm glad it was removed, but the Cat Licking Screen army was fun while it lasted)
@@zeta3341 Oh trust me, they add THOUSANDS of features, it's just that they're not designed for you, but for them to have an easier time destroying your life by getting you addicted to this platform by collecting and analyzing data and optimizing for the biggest amount of money and watch time.
You should totally collab with someone and make a free chrome extension that applies styling as skins. If you don't make money on it surely its not illegal.
Subscription feed being organized by date in a timeline is the best idea I never thought of and I need it yesterday. Being able to see at a glance how many videos came up today vs. yesterday made me so happy.
RUclips is by far my favorite place to spend time online, and seeing the potential for the experience to be THIS efficient makes me wish RUclips would watch this video and take notes! It might be a stretch, but seeing an overhaul of the creator studio would be really interesting! There's so much data in the advanced analytics, but so much interesting data buried/inaccessibly to most creators who don't know what to look for.
The creator studio needs a lot of help. The old version from 8+ years ago was basic, slow, and unnavigable, but at least I found it powerful. The modern one is also horrendously slow whenever they do additions to the main dashboard and haven’t optimised them yet. That might still be personal bitterness from like 4 years ago, though 😅
Their goal isn't your efficiency or convenience. If anything, they'll make sure to take away your choice, convenience and freedom of speech in order to ensure you are a better product. Of course they don't want people to have an easy time at introspecting site stats, they don't pay billions for consumers to piggy back off of them. Surprised you'd call this fascist site your favorite.
This is great! Much better than the current UI, this actually looks user-friendly, and much more consistent than the real thing. All the changes YT made to their UI over a 20 year span made it look inconsistent and all over the place. So I'm glad this aims to fix that. They should hire you, you would make a huge difference! Also I like your voice :) So yeah, great video all around!
it's not so bad. honestly, if they just returned dislikes and added autoscrolling for shorts they'd get praised and glazed for a whole year edit: and fixed the live-chat. praise and glaze for 2 years
I can only point out (copy and paste of my main comment) Not being a fan of Google and Microsoft, I switched my OS and browser since end of Win7 to KDE Plasma Neon with Firefox, which allowed me to use all those lovely extensions that comes readily available with Firefox.. Enter Enhancer for RUclips, which comes with a lot of abilities highlighted in this episode..Not mentioning Return YT Dislikes, another extension pointing out this video has only 4 dislikes as opposed to 2.3K likes. Then there's Adblocker Ultimate to remove all those pesky ads souring my viewing experience. Now, as a pensioner living on the bare necessary, and thus using an OLD laptop I spruced up with more RAM and a SSD, I still enjoy an acceptable experience using these mentioned software, and even with Windows 11 23H2 (Installed with the necessary workarounds) works just fine here. As far as smartphones concerned, yes, I use the same tactics there but since I'm also a tech dinosaur, which means I'm OLD as well, I prefer working with bigger screens, as smartphones kills my poor old eyes.. 🙂
Not only did you mention nearly every feature I have wished for to come back and wished for since forever, you added features that I never knew I needed ! Your proof of concept is amazingly great and well presented. Quality of Life features like yours are what make a platform the best they could be. I wish the RUclips team sees this video and takes action to improve the platform by working with you along with users, together. Because let's be serious, what you proposed should have been the default since a long time ago... Especially since RUclips, Google and Alphabet are MULTI-BILLION dollar companies. I always enjoy your redesign videos because they represent what the users want and need. Thank you for your work !
I have not finished the video, but I am commenting anyway because in under 10 minutes you have already touched on major issues I have with the "newer" youtube. Using Watch Later as I am scrolling through content, but having to work hard to get the video into said playlist. Not being able to easily swipe a video closed on mobile, or accidentally seeing a spoiler comment when I am scrolling through recommended videos. The date at the bottom of a video for some reason being ambiguous instead of just listing the date. Watching one video and suddenly it is recommended to me until the end of time (the home page recommendations have gone horribly downhill since 2018). I love your video so far, excellent work!
This also needs to be fixed like why am I seeing a bright yellow rectangular box in the middle of the dark/white comment section? (I agree with your comment though)
It really *could* look like this if anyone at HQ cared, but the modern RUclips UI was probably all just conceived through A/B testing to maximize engagement and watch time over usability. This is why so many features have been removed over the years like 0-5 star ratings, annotations, video categories, direct messages, community captions, and the dislike counter.
RUclips is in "milk it" mode. The only changes we will ever see going forward are ones that maximize immediate profit. That will continue until eventually RUclips just dies and is taken over by a different platform. However, because they have such an entrenched monopoly on monetization for creators, this death will be very slow and very agonizing, for everyone involved (except the shareholders of course).
6:37 this video is the first in my "Watch Later". I like to search videos when I can't watch them and out them in watch later, and when I'm able to watch them I do.
oh my god thank youuuuuuu for acknowledging the red turning pink. so many ppl were trying to make me seem insane over noticing the slight hue shift 😭also epic video, always look forward to seeing your input and ideas for these site layouts
I am genuinely amazed at how impressive this redesign is. Sure, your old designs were good too, but this is just soooooo much better than the actual RUclips design.
As a RUclips user for over a decade, I have never used any of the Explore options. Neat redesign of everything here, though - even if a bunch of people would definitely get mad, because they would for anything.
Yeah same lol, I feel like there are two types of yt watcher, those who _religiously_ use subscriptions and the subs feed, and those who use everything else (either home/explore tabs, etc)
yeah same, never used it because it smells like another 'trending' to my brain, that part was weird also at 17:47 she said the cast button wasn't important when it's essentail if you use a smart tv regularly, these are the only cases where actual data from the users would be useful to know instead of making assumptions, the rest of the takes are on point
@@trollocat While she did say that about the cast button, her redesign didn't make the it any harder to reach. The difference is that it has room to breathe and doesn't eat up the space of the search bar and filters because they've been moved down a row
10:30 You're so real for this, I've always hated how timed comments would often show up and straight up spoil something I haven't even begun watching. I prefer option B, as it's like a hook into what the people have to say of the video, and entices curiosity to look further
However the most annoying thing about option B (which I prefer over A too) wasn't addressed in this redesign - why tf is there no way to automatically go to the comment which was "hinted"? That's the stupidest thing about them, sometimes you have to scroll for a full minute to find and read the rest of the comment which was literally shown to you!
This was a great video! "Broadcast Yourself" definitely deserves its flowers to be added back to the home page.. In protest I'll add it to every video I upload. I used to like RUclips but the algorithm sucks and ads are what's killing it.. I had to pause my searches and turn off recommendations and do all this stuff to literally just have a blank black screen when I come to the website and I am all for it... sometimes I clear my cache for each visit so it's not tracked across other devices but, I'm truly free to search what I want without being force fed lame videos... I get to find amazing videos like this ~
it's kind of a strange feeling seeing some of these changes and remembering for the first time in years that some of this is literally just how youtube USED to function. it is crazy how much the design of the platform has regressed in recent years for seemingly no reason. amazing video as always
Not for no reason. Stuff like recommendations in search and hidden dislikes were changed because they work with increasing "engagement" and "watch time". Sure, not for everyone, but for most people. They want to keep you on platform as long as possible to keep you watching ads.
Yeah, the latest redesign (removal of Channel and About tabs and moving the view count and upload date into the (ugly) description box) was BY FAR the worst ever imo. I dont like the design in general, but I´m not a fan of the Material You Design language in general, apart from the UI of the Pixel phones (which proves that its not a good design for desktop, but thats a whole other story :D)
14:12 hooooooly moly that is a genius feature. as it stands, the current subscriptions tab almost discourages users from subscribing to too many channels because the feed becomes incredibly messy. but, if you were able to organize them in this way, you could actually control what type of videos you want to see at that specific moment. very nice!!!
As a first time viewer I must say this video really has it all: ✅ Thoughtful problem statement ✅ Smart design decisions ✅ Great animations and prototypes ✅ Storytelling ✅ Cats ✅ Humorous use of memes ✅ Awesome feature ideas Instant subscribe, keep up the good work I really enjoyed that 😊 Edit: I forgot to mention the one thing I don’t like… Now, after watching this I cannot use RUclips and ignore all the things that could be heavily improved.
I am a big fan of your redesigns in general, but I think this one is by far my favorite one yet (maybe because I use RUclips the most idk). The comments, personalization, and general organization in this redesign are all things RUclips desperately needs
It's not added on purpose. RUclips wants the algorithm to keep you engaged, not for you to quickly drop in watch a few specific videos and leave. Same reason search is useless now. They don't want or need to find the video you're looking for; just to find anything that you'll watch.
I've been on RUclips for 10 years and I've never touched the explorer button. Maybe I have and don't remember but there's not a time I remember touching. My brain doesn't even know it's there
RUclips, please hire or at least listen to this women! So many great suggestions and in same cases it's just outrageous that RUclips has not fixed/improved it already.
I'm glad you mentioned the playlists thing, I was really sad when YT merged all the playlists on my sidebar into a tab... like bro, that's all I even USED the sidebar for!! as someone who uses playlists as an extension of my watch later, seeing all the thumbnails is so distracting 😭
@@E4S65 wait is there a max amount of vids you can have in your watch later?? that's stupid 💀 I was more talking about playlists for things like,, "vids to listen to" or "shorts/stubs" or "audiobooks" or "perma-queue" (all of which I have rn, plus like five more for sorting purposes)
@@CrescentCaribou oh I see. Ya its pretty high at 5000 videos but still after years it can fill up and then it won't let you add more videos to watch later. It really does seem to be treated as just a playlist, so unless I'm mistaken you have to manually delete videos from it to clear up room.
Adding the search into the mobile navigation bar, and the addition of homepage filters are honestly the biggest takeaways youtube needs to implement. Fantastic video! Love seeing your attention to detail and how well you implemented our comments into the redesign
@@vdmir40 But that's kinda the thing right. It's such an unintiutive place for the search and yet they've done it for an app that DOESN'T require search that often. Might as well add it to youtub
But Revanced is limited to activating or deactivating features that have already been implemented by Google. They're like game modders and do not have access to the codebase, which makes it impossible to make such changes.
This video is seriously the best YT video I’ve ever seen. Every feature mentioned is exactly what I’ve thought about before. It’s such simple logic-if YT leadership doesn’t get this, they don’t deserve to be there. Everything here is just flawless. Huge props to @juxtopposed! The bit about YT wanting users to stay longer but actually making frustration pile up. Spot on. Companies like Meta, Amazon, Google, or Apple need to think beyond profits at this point. No one’s leaving their platforms-they’ve got a monopoly. YT isn’t going anywhere or facing real competition anytime soon. When you’re at that level, it’s time to prioritize users. But nope, same story-YT leadership sucks. They see the issues, but they just don’t care enough to act. That’s what’s most frustrating.
I don't think I've ever used the trending pages even once, but I like that you merged them all into one tab instead of clogging up the sidebar! makes it easier for folks who want it to find it, and easier for folks who _don't_ want it to ignore it lol
8:36 - it's possible that I'm getting old and blind, but I do actually prefer having the profile icons instead of just colours. This also helps ppl with daltonism, since colours pulled from pictures will the whole rainbow, and avatars at least have some shapes in them. I personally am always very confused by Twitch chat, its a chaos - mostly because of the fact there is nothing breaking up the space there, its just a wall of text. Profile icons/avatars is why I prefer to watch streams on YT.
@morganisapro8k oh yeah, 100% Generally, we have those for a reason. Twitch IMO has a different approach, where chat is just this giant hive mind, individual people don't really matter, and we should focus on the stream. YT feels a bit more focused on the comments/chat.
A lot of work, but much of it could be implemented as a browser extension. Would be awesome if we got something like this redesign made by a few dedicated web designers if RUclips won't do it officially
it can be done by a few dedicated devs, but youtube will just bring another update that will break all of that hard work, why will anyone do it and why ?
@@CalamityFrost da, prin aplicarea unui css peste cel al youtubeului, poti sa faci asta si tu cu tampermonkey care aplica un script de JS peste un site, si ii cauti elementele si le modifici stilul
The only reason you're not getting hired by all companies to single handedly fix their terrible mistakes, is that its the developers who see your videos first, not the marketing team. Awesome stuff
I Also hate it when you're watching a video in your "watch later" playlist , it doesn't let you scroll up to see other videos that aren't in your playlist when you're in landscape mode .
Love your videos. I'd love a redesign for "RUclips TV" it has the worst RUclips design. I kept waiting for a redesign in this video, but I guess it'll take a whole video for it 😉
I really like this redesign, one thing I might add is an option to subsicibe to a particular playlist or a particular topic so when something new gets added or if the playlist is updated I get notified which would be Awesome!
You not only fixed it. We don't need another design again after this 5/5 video. Great job and here's hoping that RUclips implements every single one of these changes you showcased
14:20 I really love the collection idea - this is basically the sole reason why, a few months ago, I used the channels feature for creators to split up my account into multiple themed channels like for IT, Science, Society, and so on, and subscribed to creators based on the subchannel's theme. That way not only are the subs categorized but I can "train the algorhythm" to one type of content which I can freely switch between without messing up the suggested videos
Your redesign is just perfect. I love organizing stuff a bit too much and nothing would make me happier than to have this level of control over things. You also showed me so many aspects that give programmers and designers proper perspective on how to make UI/UX. Thanks!
This went into my "Favorites" playlist as most points actually hit my ideas especially when they tried redesigning the video playing UI on Desktop version. That was abysmal! Thank you for this and let's hope RUclips follows this masterpiece. You're one of a kind UI/UX designer. Love from the Philippines ♥ Happy New Year! ✨
@@Not_merathe gaming section too. It's splintered between two subcategories which makes sense for music, but a system where you can choose what details the recap should expand upon would be greatly appreciated
@@flatbread_clip We actively try to because it sucked. It was the least personal a recap could get, they alienated many communities by bringing in many content creaters a large portion of people never heard about. This isn't about those content creators, everyone deserves to get on there but it's just that the platform is too big to celebrate it as one community. It's a much better option IMO to celebrate it based on what you watched and what categories/communities your viewer behavior falls into.
I love how majority of content about redesigning a site will actually make the design of whatever 10x better than what an entire company did with an entire team of UI/UX designers
I bet that the UI and UX designers have plenty of great ideas to improve youtube but guess what, in those companies, the marketing department makes all the decisions, not the experts. They hire those designers to only do what they're told, they never listen to them. The same is for programmers too
I really hate when they recommend shorts on the video feed, keep a different section, whenever I'm watching a video and a short section in there as suggestion, I hate that so much.
Should've been a separate domain/app altogether. There is a ton of people with zero interest in short videos. But it's clear why it is how it is from the business perspective.
@@bosch5303 I used vanced for a long time but nowadays I prefer to use youtube client applications, because vanced used a bit more battery, although not it's not a big problem and still a good option nevertheless.
Being able to have “Friends” on RUclips was a thing at one point in its very early days up until around 2011ish I wanna say. Use to be able to send people messages/mail, it was nice
Love these ideas! Can't believe some of these basic UX things like not being able to watch a video while reading comments have just never been solved by YT themselves
The "tv mode" is something I've been wanting for years on youtube. I wish streaming services would do it as well, can you imagine how nice it would be if disney plus or netflex had curated "channels" or "stations" that you could play and it would essentially choose random episodes from shows you like and make line ups for you, or combine similar shows and movies etc. I know audio play is a thing on both youtube and streaming platforms, but I don't want random movie marathons on disney plus, and I don't want random recommended videos on youtube. Imagine if you could make a "channel" out of your subscription collection feature. That would be amazing, and it's another way youtube could introduce ads in a more "accepted" and "tolerable" way (same applies to streaming services).
AMAZING video. Definitely something that should climb to the top of the current algorithm to maybe actually be seen by the right person to get some changes made. I would love to use RUclips the way that you have shown us. First time seeing one of your videos and you've definitely earned a new subscriber!
One thing I really want is if when you visit a channel, there should be an option to see all your liked videos from that channel. Kinda like when you visit an artist on Spotify and see all the songs you liked from that artist.
The thrill of every single suggestion being so clear and beneficial one after the other - I can only dream RUclips UI designers sit in a room and watch your video. Would be so much better.
10:55 One key change that's still missing is for channels to be able to define multiple custom "feeds" that you can opt into/out of separately. Right now, creators with multiple types of content have to make multiple channels to avoid killing engagement when viewers of one type of content don't watch another. But that's terrible for discoverability, so many still don't, and then users get their subscriptions flooded with videos they don't want to watch unless they unsubscribe from the entire channel. Since channel feeds would replace multiple channels, I think it makes sense to give each feed its own channel-like page and turn the main channel page into a central hub for all of the feeds.
Juxtopposted: Fixing all the problems in RUclips layout. RUclips: So, did you meant hype, ads on pause and autogenerated creators response? ;) (This video was incredible, it fixed things i didn't even thought that could be fixed in RUclips)
I'd also add a way to sort videos that are inside a playlist by date uploaded. That way when people have the newest upload at the top of the playlist you can still watch from the first video without having to do some shenanigans with the Play Next/Previous buttons
One of the things i like about YT live chat is that you can see people's profile pics. It shows that theyre real people and not just names. The color is a nice addition tho
I find most accounts have no pfp anyway. Also, the pictures are so small it's often hard to make out what the pfp is, and also many bots have pfps. I wouldn't miss them.
They aren't going to. Google is not a software development company (like they pretend they are) they're an advertisement company. Why would they let people choose what they're advertised? That'd defeat the whole purpose of advertisement. I'm not against advertisement whatsoever, this 'merica, but I do wish they'd actually let people turn off personalized ads and videos. And I think they should make "not interested" actually remove videos in that category from their history, making it actually functional.
The fact that a RUclipsr with 300K+ subscribers has a better idea for a layout than the multi-billion dollar corporation running it says a lot. But who needs actual user-friendly simplicity when they can change the layout every few months and make it worse than the last?
Sooooo what do you think? Is this YOUR Tube?
I want youtube to watch this video❤
Why my reply Isn't showing
Wow, this comment is literally in the video. That's crazy attention to detail!
It looks like RUclips 2! So I pick 1 and 2
I REALLY want keyword filters for the watch page
The worst part of these Redesign videos is that we can't actually have them and will forever have to live with the inferior product
pain
Wikipedia kinda implemented her suggestions!
"we" - I am pretty sure a company as large as youtube runs plenty of A and B testing whilst recording our every movement on the platform, to figure out exactly what design and layout suits the masses. Just because some of us like this redesign, does not make it an inferior product to anyone but you.
She uploads them so anyone can use
the developers could make it into google extension
+1 for adding a Technology category. No brainer!
True 💯
@mkbhd sent me here
@@IanBuryeah me too... After his Twitter tweet!
it could raise so much more tech awareness :D
You brought me here from Twitter lol
youtube is definitely one of those platforms that you use so often and for so long that you genuinely forget that it can be improved this much. great work!!
Browser extensions: are we a joke to you?
@from my experience, I use mobile 99% time to watch RUclips videos, not computers, PC e. t. c. And yeah you can also get extensions, but then you need to use specific browser and they don't even have all the extensions that PC have so I'd rather use native app
RUclips Creators: "First time?"
I definitely notice the issues, but I just ignore them because there is no other platform that can compete with RUclips :/
huge fax
Loved this redesign! This is so needed.
what why no replies and likes????????????? @Juxtopposed better recognize this NOW
no comments? I'll fix that
get this to top comment
guys ₹40 is less than 1$
I’m Indian yes
hey that's me!
WOAH
shout out to you for making working on this project more pleasant :D
oh, hello lofiGirl!
rare comment with only 12 likes
😮
“Explore… everyone uses this all the time.”
I don't even know what it is.
True... I believe Its home instead tho
I dove into the overpopulated comments section looking for this. What kind of degenerate clicks on the "trending" page of RUclips? I forgot to log in once and it defaulted to that. I still see it when I close my eyes.
@@mademedothis424 frrr
Trust me, with all of the constant RECOMMENDATIONS -- I have zero motivation to even want to explore anything else...
That's why UI isn't UX. You can redesign UI all the way you want, but it won't change your experience. Google products aren't consistent, it's true, but Google probably knows it's good enough.
I love how she makes a point every time she's redesigning something. I always feel like it's useless to redesign such products but when I watch the whole video, then it makes sense. This is one of the reason why I think you're the best UI/UX designer on youtube.
Any good designer have +45 to "explaining things" perk )
True. I wonder what company she works for. She’s a genius!
i mean "everyone uses this all of a time" is a bit of a reach
This is actually incredible, the improvements here are MASSIVE
RUclips take notes
You know what else is massive?
@@luckyduck4986 your mom
@@luckyduck4986 the LOW TAPER FADE
dont worry, they wont
Remember back in 2010 you could literally change the ENTIRE background of your channel lol. I think you could even change the color and background of the subscribe button (as in: design your own subscribe button in photoshop and upload as a picture onto your channel).
OH, and there were even achievements you could unlock? Like, having a video reach a certain amount of clicks or being in the Top 20 of your countries channels or something like that. You got I think even little trophies being displayed on your channel? Anyone remember that?
I still have no idea why they took that away from us, every single channel was so personalized and unique, now everything looks the same
the downgrade is honestly crazy and unnecessary :(
RUclips might be the one of the very few products that consistently REMOVES features with updates instead of adding them
They also used to allow animated avatars (which were frequently abused so I'm glad it was removed, but the Cat Licking Screen army was fun while it lasted)
@@zeta3341 Oh trust me, they add THOUSANDS of features, it's just that they're not designed for you, but for them to have an easier time destroying your life by getting you addicted to this platform by collecting and analyzing data and optimizing for the biggest amount of money and watch time.
@@zeta3341 New Outlook desktop joins the conversation 😅
The subscription collections would be a GAME CHANGER
Worst thing is, RUclips used to have that exact feature but removed it in 2015...
u can use pockettube for yt desktop
most def, i always struggle to find actual channels
Those will behind premium subscription
pocket tube extension solves that problem
You should totally collab with someone and make a free chrome extension that applies styling as skins. If you don't make money on it surely its not illegal.
THIS
Absolutely. This is gamechanging
i think theres extension called "Stylish"
I don't think all this stuff can be done with a chrome extension. Also Google Chrome is one of the worst browsers for many reasons.
It's never illegal to make a CSS file and apply it client-side. It's like modding a single-player game lol
Thanks! RUclips needs to hire this woman!!!!
Subscription feed being organized by date in a timeline is the best idea I never thought of and I need it yesterday. Being able to see at a glance how many videos came up today vs. yesterday made me so happy.
pretty sure this used to be a feature few years back
I was just about to say this! Huge!
Yeah this is just how the page used to work
God I miss this feature so much
Why are you guys pretending the sub feed doesn't literally work like this _now???_
This is all I want for Christmas
Seriously her Spotify and RUclips redesigns should at least be listened too!
Santa replied: Can you change your wish?
RUclips is by far my favorite place to spend time online, and seeing the potential for the experience to be THIS efficient makes me wish RUclips would watch this video and take notes! It might be a stretch, but seeing an overhaul of the creator studio would be really interesting! There's so much data in the advanced analytics, but so much interesting data buried/inaccessibly to most creators who don't know what to look for.
The creator studio needs a lot of help. The old version from 8+ years ago was basic, slow, and unnavigable, but at least I found it powerful. The modern one is also horrendously slow whenever they do additions to the main dashboard and haven’t optimised them yet. That might still be personal bitterness from like 4 years ago, though 😅
Someone make this a Stylus skin of this ASAP
Their goal isn't your efficiency or convenience. If anything, they'll make sure to take away your choice, convenience and freedom of speech in order to ensure you are a better product. Of course they don't want people to have an easy time at introspecting site stats, they don't pay billions for consumers to piggy back off of them. Surprised you'd call this fascist site your favorite.
wow xander, it's nice to see you around
This is great! Much better than the current UI, this actually looks user-friendly, and much more consistent than the real thing. All the changes YT made to their UI over a 20 year span made it look inconsistent and all over the place. So I'm glad this aims to fix that. They should hire you, you would make a huge difference! Also I like your voice :) So yeah, great video all around!
I was yelling YESSSS throughout the video. So cathartic to see someone make all these functional changes
I hate these videos, they show me the perfect RUclips and then remind me it's not real😭
Great video❤😭👍
now we go back to the actual YT 😰
it's not so bad. honestly, if they just returned dislikes and added autoscrolling for shorts they'd get praised and glazed for a whole year
edit: and fixed the live-chat. praise and glaze for 2 years
Bold of you to put "i hate these videos" and "Great video" in the same sentence
I can only point out (copy and paste of my main comment) Not being a fan of Google and Microsoft, I switched my OS and browser since end of Win7 to KDE Plasma Neon with Firefox, which allowed me to use all those lovely extensions that comes readily available with Firefox.. Enter Enhancer for RUclips, which comes with a lot of abilities highlighted in this episode..Not mentioning Return YT Dislikes, another extension pointing out this video has only 4 dislikes as opposed to 2.3K likes. Then there's Adblocker Ultimate to remove all those pesky ads souring my viewing experience. Now, as a pensioner living on the bare necessary, and thus using an OLD laptop I spruced up with more RAM and a SSD, I still enjoy an acceptable experience using these mentioned software, and even with Windows 11 23H2 (Installed with the necessary workarounds) works just fine here.
As far as smartphones concerned, yes, I use the same tactics there but since I'm also a tech dinosaur, which means I'm OLD as well, I prefer working with bigger screens, as smartphones kills my poor old eyes.. 🙂
10/10 emote game. My thoughts exactly.
Not only did you mention nearly every feature I have wished for to come back and wished for since forever, you added features that I never knew I needed !
Your proof of concept is amazingly great and well presented. Quality of Life features like yours are what make a platform the best they could be.
I wish the RUclips team sees this video and takes action to improve the platform by working with you along with users, together.
Because let's be serious, what you proposed should have been the default since a long time ago... Especially since RUclips, Google and Alphabet are MULTI-BILLION dollar companies.
I always enjoy your redesign videos because they represent what the users want and need.
Thank you for your work !
I have not finished the video, but I am commenting anyway because in under 10 minutes you have already touched on major issues I have with the "newer" youtube. Using Watch Later as I am scrolling through content, but having to work hard to get the video into said playlist. Not being able to easily swipe a video closed on mobile, or accidentally seeing a spoiler comment when I am scrolling through recommended videos. The date at the bottom of a video for some reason being ambiguous instead of just listing the date. Watching one video and suddenly it is recommended to me until the end of time (the home page recommendations have gone horribly downhill since 2018). I love your video so far, excellent work!
So glad I found this channel
THANK you!!!
This also needs to be fixed like why am I seeing a bright yellow rectangular box in the middle of the dark/white comment section? (I agree with your comment though)
@@ejectedguy5988 i mean it did catch my attention when I was scrolling by
It really *could* look like this if anyone at HQ cared, but the modern RUclips UI was probably all just conceived through A/B testing to maximize engagement and watch time over usability. This is why so many features have been removed over the years like 0-5 star ratings, annotations, video categories, direct messages, community captions, and the dislike counter.
RUclips is in "milk it" mode. The only changes we will ever see going forward are ones that maximize immediate profit. That will continue until eventually RUclips just dies and is taken over by a different platform. However, because they have such an entrenched monopoly on monetization for creators, this death will be very slow and very agonizing, for everyone involved (except the shareholders of course).
Yeahhh, I forgot about community captionssss
@@Dremth RUclips won't ever die. Google will just fuse with the US government and it'll mandate to keep YT running out of taxpayer's dollars
@@Dremth yep
@@Dremth I'm usually not on board with all this dread about companies being dumb, but in this case you're 100% right imo
I want to cry with how much better the subscriptions and playlist pages are, knowing I will never have them 😢
so im not the only one who was crying
@ayakashusband you are DEFINITELY NOT the only one who is crying 😭😭😭😭😭
And the comments too
6:37 this video is the first in my "Watch Later". I like to search videos when I can't watch them and out them in watch later, and when I'm able to watch them I do.
oh my god thank youuuuuuu for acknowledging the red turning pink. so many ppl were trying to make me seem insane over noticing the slight hue shift 😭also epic video, always look forward to seeing your input and ideas for these site layouts
Nah you're not insane at all xD those who can't see it have issues.
I read that not all users recieved the pink hue, that might be why your friends didnt notice it even after pointing it out.
@uIz-slc literally everyone has it by now
Idk why they added pink besides the youtube UI team trying to do something to not get fired
@uIz-slc yeah they were ab testing it
I am genuinely amazed at how impressive this redesign is. Sure, your old designs were good too, but this is just soooooo much better than the actual RUclips design.
As a RUclips user for over a decade, I have never used any of the Explore options. Neat redesign of everything here, though - even if a bunch of people would definitely get mad, because they would for anything.
Same, that suprised me haha
yeah, I also never used it
Me too
i am with you on that one. i do see the usefulness of the feature, but the execution is quite poor. they could do much better
Yeah same lol, I feel like there are two types of yt watcher, those who _religiously_ use subscriptions and the subs feed, and those who use everything else (either home/explore tabs, etc)
I love this design! Keep up the good work :D
1:42 I've literally only clicked in the explore stuff once and have never met anyone enthusiastic about those
yeah same, never used it because it smells like another 'trending' to my brain, that part was weird
also at 17:47 she said the cast button wasn't important when it's essentail if you use a smart tv regularly, these are the only cases where actual data from the users would be useful to know instead of making assumptions, the rest of the takes are on point
Same I have never met some o e who has used the trending tab
@@trollocat While she did say that about the cast button, her redesign didn't make the it any harder to reach. The difference is that it has room to breathe and doesn't eat up the space of the search bar and filters because they've been moved down a row
I honestly thought the trending button had been removed years ago because it's so hidden now
same here
I like how this is basically turning back time in terms of the placement of elements with the fresh paint and the few new tabs for the new features.
10:30 You're so real for this, I've always hated how timed comments would often show up and straight up spoil something I haven't even begun watching. I prefer option B, as it's like a hook into what the people have to say of the video, and entices curiosity to look further
I've seen some videos with SPOILER BLOCKER as the top comment
However the most annoying thing about option B (which I prefer over A too) wasn't addressed in this redesign - why tf is there no way to automatically go to the comment which was "hinted"?
That's the stupidest thing about them, sometimes you have to scroll for a full minute to find and read the rest of the comment which was literally shown to you!
I was watching a game remake trailer that I wanted to go into blind but that feature spoiled me on an important character death I hate it 😭
The irony of this comment
@@loucam08 Crazy how people have to do that just because RUclips thinks they're adding a "cool" feature
This was a great video! "Broadcast Yourself" definitely deserves its flowers to be added back to the home page.. In protest I'll add it to every video I upload. I used to like RUclips but the algorithm sucks and ads are what's killing it.. I had to pause my searches and turn off recommendations and do all this stuff to literally just have a blank black screen when I come to the website and I am all for it... sometimes I clear my cache for each visit so it's not tracked across other devices but, I'm truly free to search what I want without being force fed lame videos... I get to find amazing videos like this ~
OMG THE PERSONAL REWIND DESIGNED LIKE WRAPPED WOULD GENUINELY BE SUCH A GOOD IDEA
They already do that
They do that for RUclips music, but I definitely want that for normal RUclips
@@RysI990 they literally dont
@@ludvigholst4767 they do but only for gaming and music for some ungodly reason
@@ImprobableTrace the RUclips music one is shit tho
it's kind of a strange feeling seeing some of these changes and remembering for the first time in years that some of this is literally just how youtube USED to function. it is crazy how much the design of the platform has regressed in recent years for seemingly no reason. amazing video as always
Not for no reason. Stuff like recommendations in search and hidden dislikes were changed because they work with increasing "engagement" and "watch time".
Sure, not for everyone, but for most people.
They want to keep you on platform as long as possible to keep you watching ads.
Yeah, the latest redesign (removal of Channel and About tabs and moving the view count and upload date into the (ugly) description box) was BY FAR the worst ever imo. I dont like the design in general, but I´m not a fan of the Material You Design language in general, apart from the UI of the Pixel phones (which proves that its not a good design for desktop, but thats a whole other story :D)
14:12 hooooooly moly that is a genius feature. as it stands, the current subscriptions tab almost discourages users from subscribing to too many channels because the feed becomes incredibly messy. but, if you were able to organize them in this way, you could actually control what type of videos you want to see at that specific moment. very nice!!!
RUclips literally had this feature up to ~10 years ago, maybe 12...
They removed it without warning and I was mad about it for months.
That's the key word: Control. Google is all about the algorithms so they want the control.
As a first time viewer I must say this video really has it all:
✅ Thoughtful problem statement
✅ Smart design decisions
✅ Great animations and prototypes
✅ Storytelling
✅ Cats
✅ Humorous use of memes
✅ Awesome feature ideas
Instant subscribe, keep up the good work I really enjoyed that 😊
Edit: I forgot to mention the one thing I don’t like… Now, after watching this I cannot use RUclips and ignore all the things that could be heavily improved.
Perfectly aligning the progress bar in the video with the real progress bar is a nice touch
Finally someone noticed it
I am a big fan of your redesigns in general, but I think this one is by far my favorite one yet (maybe because I use RUclips the most idk). The comments, personalization, and general organization in this redesign are all things RUclips desperately needs
Love your vids
it means a lot, thank you :)
this is comment
@ctrlsoffmc This is comment to
What the heck! I just found out this channel and judging by the subscriptions, I've a lot more common with this lady already!
that filter button idea for the feed is genius
It's not added on purpose. RUclips wants the algorithm to keep you engaged, not for you to quickly drop in watch a few specific videos and leave. Same reason search is useless now. They don't want or need to find the video you're looking for; just to find anything that you'll watch.
Right? It would fix a lot but I don’t think they would put it in action
juxtopposed is what happens when a designer is passionate, skilled and reasonable. goddamn this redesign is just chef’s kiss
"lets put explore up there because everyone uses it all the time"
I didnt touch that thing in 3 years
I didn't touch it ever. Maybe by accident once or twice, but never on purpose.
yeah whar?
Wait... Meaning you have touched that before?
TBF I would probably use it if I knew it existed
I've been on RUclips for 10 years and I've never touched the explorer button. Maybe I have and don't remember but there's not a time I remember touching. My brain doesn't even know it's there
RUclips, please hire or at least listen to this women! So many great suggestions and in same cases it's just outrageous that RUclips has not fixed/improved it already.
yoooo hope youtube does these changes in futureee!!!! (the redesigned chat looks like twitch one ngl)
Its almost like they got it right
honestly after everything youtube had done to its platform, i have no more hope for good youtube UX
But i prefer with the profile picture one
nah they are removing eveything like removing dislikes, likes, comments and even monetization
i mean it's probably a good thing that it looks more like twitch chat since RUclips chat is an absolute catastrophe
The spotify wrapped-like “youtube rewind” at the end feels like the most no brainer idea i cannot believe it’s not a thing
its... perfect
A LEDGENDARY CREATOR with only 2 likes, ❤by the uploader, and no replies?
Lemmie Fix that. 👍
❤ your guys' content!
@jvkofficial07he is not legendary pluhski, he is Temu SunnyV2
@@blockacheese_ I understand you dude.
I just like them both. 👍
I'm glad you mentioned the playlists thing, I was really sad when YT merged all the playlists on my sidebar into a tab... like bro, that's all I even USED the sidebar for!! as someone who uses playlists as an extension of my watch later, seeing all the thumbnails is so distracting 😭
I literally have a playlist called "Watch Later 2". Seriously why is there even a limit🤦♂️
@@E4S65 wait is there a max amount of vids you can have in your watch later?? that's stupid 💀
I was more talking about playlists for things like,, "vids to listen to" or "shorts/stubs" or "audiobooks" or "perma-queue" (all of which I have rn, plus like five more for sorting purposes)
@@CrescentCaribou oh I see. Ya its pretty high at 5000 videos but still after years it can fill up and then it won't let you add more videos to watch later. It really does seem to be treated as just a playlist, so unless I'm mistaken you have to manually delete videos from it to clear up room.
the most egregious thing is that the pink shift broke the "awesome" easter egg where if you typed out awesome, the progress bar would become rainbow
yeah. maybe ðey could implement ðe gradient þing into it (and also make it less strobe-y)
@@jan_Etenmaybe you stop using runes in 21st Century...
@@TheStOne1 ok ðat was uncalled for
@@jan_Eten yay thorn and eth! I love ðose letters!
@@TheStOne1 no.
Adding the search into the mobile navigation bar, and the addition of homepage filters are honestly the biggest takeaways youtube needs to implement.
Fantastic video! Love seeing your attention to detail and how well you implemented our comments into the redesign
Yep...i really hate that + button...i keep hitting it by mistake
tbh im not really a fan of search at the bottom, they did it on play store and i hate it. muscle memory i guess
@@vdmir40 But that's kinda the thing right. It's such an unintiutive place for the search and yet they've done it for an app that DOESN'T require search that often. Might as well add it to youtub
THANK YOU FOR ACTUALLY DIMMING THE BRIGHT BACKGROUND!!!! YOU ARE SO BRILLIANT!
dark mode
absolutely loving this. I was engaged all the way till the brilliant ad popped up. 😂😂
I'm so surprised by how actually AMAZING your redesign turned out! Like, i want to youtube look exactly like your design.
revanced team take notes xd
Real
Ah! Fellow man of culture, I see
But Revanced is limited to activating or deactivating features that have already been implemented by Google. They're like game modders and do not have access to the codebase, which makes it impossible to make such changes.
Im still scared of blue comments
THISSS
This video is seriously the best YT video I’ve ever seen. Every feature mentioned is exactly what I’ve thought about before. It’s such simple logic-if YT leadership doesn’t get this, they don’t deserve to be there.
Everything here is just flawless. Huge props to @juxtopposed! The bit about YT wanting users to stay longer but actually making frustration pile up. Spot on. Companies like Meta, Amazon, Google, or Apple need to think beyond profits at this point. No one’s leaving their platforms-they’ve got a monopoly. YT isn’t going anywhere or facing real competition anytime soon.
When you’re at that level, it’s time to prioritize users. But nope, same story-YT leadership sucks. They see the issues, but they just don’t care enough to act. That’s what’s most frustrating.
I don't think I've ever used the trending pages even once, but I like that you merged them all into one tab instead of clogging up the sidebar! makes it easier for folks who want it to find it, and easier for folks who _don't_ want it to ignore it lol
8:36 - it's possible that I'm getting old and blind, but I do actually prefer having the profile icons instead of just colours. This also helps ppl with daltonism, since colours pulled from pictures will the whole rainbow, and avatars at least have some shapes in them. I personally am always very confused by Twitch chat, its a chaos - mostly because of the fact there is nothing breaking up the space there, its just a wall of text. Profile icons/avatars is why I prefer to watch streams on YT.
also, it makes it so much easier to recognise someone
@morganisapro8k oh yeah, 100% Generally, we have those for a reason. Twitch IMO has a different approach, where chat is just this giant hive mind, individual people don't really matter, and we should focus on the stream. YT feels a bit more focused on the comments/chat.
A lot of work, but much of it could be implemented as a browser extension. Would be awesome if we got something like this redesign made by a few dedicated web designers if RUclips won't do it officially
chiar am putea schimba layout-ul printr-un simplu plugin?
it can be done by a few dedicated devs, but youtube will just bring another update that will break all of that hard work, why will anyone do it and why ?
@@CalamityFrost da, prin aplicarea unui css peste cel al youtubeului, poti sa faci asta si tu cu tampermonkey care aplica un script de JS peste un site, si ii cauti elementele si le modifici stilul
You could use extensions on your PC browser, but that won't help RUclips on mobile, as you can't use extensions there.
@@CalamityFrost Se poate, exista plugin-uri care schimba destul de radical layout-ul pe reddit de exemplu
I smiled throughout the entire VIDEO, i was internally and externally screaming YES to everything you did and said. thank you.
Your editing skills rivals no one, because you're the no. ONE!!
The only reason you're not getting hired by all companies to single handedly fix their terrible mistakes, is that its the developers who see your videos first, not the marketing team. Awesome stuff
I Also hate it when you're watching a video in your "watch later" playlist , it doesn't let you scroll up to see other videos that aren't in your playlist when you're in landscape mode .
10:40 the way she removed the comment section😭
ACCUSATIONS.
ugh, spoilers!
😝
Knew it was comin
Love your videos.
I'd love a redesign for "RUclips TV" it has the worst RUclips design.
I kept waiting for a redesign in this video, but I guess it'll take a whole video for it 😉
I love how you put HowToBasic in the Gaming collection
I really like this redesign, one thing I might add is an option to subsicibe to a particular playlist or a particular topic so when something new gets added or if the playlist is updated I get notified which would be Awesome!
You not only fixed it. We don't need another design again after this 5/5 video. Great job and here's hoping that RUclips implements every single one of these changes you showcased
omg thank youu for acknowledging this, the amount of times the video got spoiled for me because of how the comments work 😭
14:20 I really love the collection idea - this is basically the sole reason why, a few months ago, I used the channels feature for creators to split up my account into multiple themed channels like for IT, Science, Society, and so on, and subscribed to creators based on the subchannel's theme. That way not only are the subs categorized but I can "train the algorhythm" to one type of content which I can freely switch between without messing up the suggested videos
Your redesign is just perfect. I love organizing stuff a bit too much and nothing would make me happier than to have this level of control over things. You also showed me so many aspects that give programmers and designers proper perspective on how to make UI/UX. Thanks!
you're so talented.. I wish I had 1% of your talent as a UI/UX Designer. Makes me wanna cry 😭
This is some of the best content on RUclips.
Also, this is some of the best content, on RUclips.
17:11 I can feel the emotion there
Those new subscriptions and playlists pages are just **chef’s kiss**
This went into my "Favorites" playlist as most points actually hit my ideas especially when they tried redesigning the video playing UI on Desktop version. That was abysmal!
Thank you for this and let's hope RUclips follows this masterpiece. You're one of a kind UI/UX designer.
Love from the Philippines ♥ Happy New Year! ✨
WAITTT RUclips pulling a Spotify with RUclips Rewind would actually be INGENIOUS!!! that was so slick omggg i love the concept!!
It isn't even that out there. Yt music already does it
@@Not_merathe gaming section too. It's splintered between two subcategories which makes sense for music, but a system where you can choose what details the recap should expand upon would be greatly appreciated
Did everyone just forget about RUclips Rewind fr?
@@flatbread_clip We actively try to because it sucked. It was the least personal a recap could get, they alienated many communities by bringing in many content creaters a large portion of people never heard about. This isn't about those content creators, everyone deserves to get on there but it's just that the platform is too big to celebrate it as one community. It's a much better option IMO to celebrate it based on what you watched and what categories/communities your viewer behavior falls into.
@@bowiemtl I absolutely agree! I'm just surprised no one brought up the old format
I love how majority of content about redesigning a site will actually make the design of whatever 10x better than what an entire company did with an entire team of UI/UX designers
I bet that the UI and UX designers have plenty of great ideas to improve youtube but guess what, in those companies, the marketing department makes all the decisions, not the experts. They hire those designers to only do what they're told, they never listen to them. The same is for programmers too
@@Mr.Engine993thank god for AGI then. Some humans are horrible
I really hate when they recommend shorts on the video feed, keep a different section, whenever I'm watching a video and a short section in there as suggestion, I hate that so much.
yeah but that leads to more engagement
Should've been a separate domain/app altogether. There is a ton of people with zero interest in short videos. But it's clear why it is how it is from the business perspective.
Unhooked plugin for browser and revanced for mobile :)
@oppressor5599 @ivanjermakov indeed, that's true. I really hate those 1 minute videos, they are mostly filled with cringe stuff.
@@bosch5303 I used vanced for a long time but nowadays I prefer to use youtube client applications, because vanced used a bit more battery, although not it's not a big problem and still a good option nevertheless.
this video was like almost everything i wanted to see in youtube ui. loved it
Being able to have “Friends” on RUclips was a thing at one point in its very early days up until around 2011ish I wanna say. Use to be able to send people messages/mail, it was nice
Love these ideas! Can't believe some of these basic UX things like not being able to watch a video while reading comments have just never been solved by YT themselves
that's a debatable thing i guess.
You don't need to simultaneously look at the comments AND the video, just either one.
The "tv mode" is something I've been wanting for years on youtube. I wish streaming services would do it as well, can you imagine how nice it would be if disney plus or netflex had curated "channels" or "stations" that you could play and it would essentially choose random episodes from shows you like and make line ups for you, or combine similar shows and movies etc. I know audio play is a thing on both youtube and streaming platforms, but I don't want random movie marathons on disney plus, and I don't want random recommended videos on youtube. Imagine if you could make a "channel" out of your subscription collection feature. That would be amazing, and it's another way youtube could introduce ads in a more "accepted" and "tolerable" way (same applies to streaming services).
AMAZING video. Definitely something that should climb to the top of the current algorithm to maybe actually be seen by the right person to get some changes made. I would love to use RUclips the way that you have shown us. First time seeing one of your videos and you've definitely earned a new subscriber!
5:23 Like RUclips wants us to have a choice lol, they throw content on our faces that they want to trend
Excited to see the browser extension for this!
One thing I really want is if when you visit a channel, there should be an option to see all your liked videos from that channel. Kinda like when you visit an artist on Spotify and see all the songs you liked from that artist.
That's a great shout!
The thrill of every single suggestion being so clear and beneficial one after the other - I can only dream RUclips UI designers sit in a room and watch your video. Would be so much better.
I've been waiting for this! 🎉
Btw your videos are amazing, you're an amazing designer, you just think of everything.
10:55 One key change that's still missing is for channels to be able to define multiple custom "feeds" that you can opt into/out of separately.
Right now, creators with multiple types of content have to make multiple channels to avoid killing engagement when viewers of one type of content don't watch another.
But that's terrible for discoverability, so many still don't, and then users get their subscriptions flooded with videos they don't want to watch unless they unsubscribe from the entire channel.
Since channel feeds would replace multiple channels, I think it makes sense to give each feed its own channel-like page and turn the main channel page into a central hub for all of the feeds.
Sounds like what playlist has potential to be
Juxtopposted: Fixing all the problems in RUclips layout.
RUclips: So, did you meant hype, ads on pause and autogenerated creators response? ;)
(This video was incredible, it fixed things i didn't even thought that could be fixed in RUclips)
I'd also add a way to sort videos that are inside a playlist by date uploaded. That way when people have the newest upload at the top of the playlist you can still watch from the first video without having to do some shenanigans with the Play Next/Previous buttons
18:00 RUclips already had a feature like this it was called "RUclips Leanback" but they killed it off around 10 years ago
Yet another video that is going to leave me sad that the real product isn't like your version :(
Love the changes, and it was nice seeing
MAKE. THIS. A. BROWSER. EXTENSION
yes!
Genuinely can’t make it better than this what an incredible design!
Also, I can listen to her voice for literal hours!
One of the things i like about YT live chat is that you can see people's profile pics. It shows that theyre real people and not just names. The color is a nice addition tho
I find most accounts have no pfp anyway. Also, the pictures are so small it's often hard to make out what the pfp is, and also many bots have pfps. I wouldn't miss them.
5:00 please youtube
They aren't going to. Google is not a software development company (like they pretend they are) they're an advertisement company. Why would they let people choose what they're advertised? That'd defeat the whole purpose of advertisement. I'm not against advertisement whatsoever, this 'merica, but I do wish they'd actually let people turn off personalized ads and videos. And I think they should make "not interested" actually remove videos in that category from their history, making it actually functional.
The fact that a RUclipsr with 300K+ subscribers has a better idea for a layout than the multi-billion dollar corporation running it says a lot. But who needs actual user-friendly simplicity when they can change the layout every few months and make it worse than the last?
These changes are so goodd. Also i swear some of these things used to be features in some earlier builds of youtube