Comments on: New YouTube Layout

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:03:33 +0000

Google still own youtube, right? If not I look a fool

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:01:10 +0000

The new layout makes absolutely no sense from a design perspective:

Some basic rules are being broken:

Less clicks - better, more clicks - worse.
Hidden menus - bad, open menus - good.
Pop out menus - bad, scroll menus - good.
Intrusive advertising - bad, unintrusive advertising - good (Google practically invented this with their pertinent and small adverts, can't understand why they've done this to youtube)
Simple layout - good, complicated - bad.
STANDARDISED LAYOUT - GOOD : Can't stress this one enough, personalised homepages are a BAD BAD thing, see Myspace.

Google seem to have thrown out all the principles of good design and decided to mess with things that work. Two observations here: it is clearly to make a pay-per-click advertising model work, by giving more space and more prominence to advertisements and their own chosen videos. It will backfire.

Google did the same thing with this new iGoogle rubbish, and the ridiculous social networking thing with googlemail.

Someone needs to show their designers this site: http://www.useit.com/

By: Outlook Formatting

Outlook Formatting — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:52:49 +0000

This youtube layout features hearts throughout the layout. The Grunge heart yt background is a hot pink and has a black, warped grunge surrounding.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:26:27 +0000

I am a web developer and can usually see why popular websites go through a major redevelopment and most of the time it is totally necessary and I stand up for these websites that get a bad time because people generally don't like change.

But I am completely lost for words with the new YouTube layout, it's utter shite! I mean, what the hell were they thinking! The best and most user friendly thing about YouTube was its rating system, which gave people, who uploaded quality content, the recognition they deserve. Now it's just whoever has had the most views... gets more views.

This is what I hate about sites that have monopolies over certain areas, it's not like you can turn elsewhere for just as much video content. It's basically a like it or lump it approach.

I think this is a good opportunity for someone to develop an alternative video repository site, because judging from the responses here, there are many people who would like to say fuck off YouTube, you stupid, stupid bastards.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:45:06 +0000

LOL. You took YouTube's 'claims' to a better redesigned and paraphrased them. Clearly, you have NEVER seen the redesign. IT SUCKS.

By: Sonicsnout

Sonicsnout — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:45:05 +0000

I've been trying to give it time and I don't hate it quite as much. I hate it about 90% as much as I hated it when it first debuted. Ball sucking shit eating lameness!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:31:19 +0000

I agree. And what's even worse is that now the videos won't frigging play- every video I watch suddenly stops and tells me to download the new Flash Player, but on any other website it's embedded in, it works fine! Not only that, but removing copyrighted material susks too. In conclusion, the new Youtube is shit.

By: Lynx

Lynx — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:23:43 +0000

I used to comment lots on vids. It was very interesting reading other people's opinions on the subject matter. Now it's harder to read and follow different communication lines. I don't get nearly the amount of responses I used to because of this and so further discussions on it fall through. This makes it less appealing. Just search 'new youtube layout' and you'll see most of the comments are very negative. If another vid sharing site pops up that has everything the old YouTube layout had with improvements to various things (like making it harder to flag videos inappropriately), people would abandon YouTube for that one in droves.

By: realeducation23

realeducation23 — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:58:04 +0000

so shit

By: kousoulides

kousoulides — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:06:04 +0000

it looks exactly like Google Videos

Fuck this shit..

its obvious that the main reason behind all this ''change'' is the new big players that are now all over utube and are selling their videos and the advertisers Those are the ones who didn't want the 5star rating system because everyone gave them 1 star