I Redesigned the ENTIRE Steam UI from Scratch
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I've finally redesigned the entire Steam UI. This video focuses on the design choices rooted in much bigger causes, like marketing, development, etc. So get ...

I need it now.

I’m not a designer, but I can appreciate thoughtful explanations from passionate people, and I very much enjoyed watching her walk through her thought process.

Further, I find steam to be incredibly clunky, and I’d love to see them adopt her design.

  • verysoft@kbin.social
    22·
    11 months ago

    No, that redesign is horrendous. It follows modern ‘design’ principles of putting as little information on the page as you can and that’s just a no go.

    Steam’s current UI isn’t bad at all, everything functions and is similar to previous versions allowing anyone to find their way around comfortably. There are some issues, like in the older workshop pages and there is absolutely a lot of QoL that could be made, but the main store, discovery and library are all totally functional and nice imo. Steam having a slightly different style on different pages isn’t actually a bad thing, at a glance you can easily tell what page you are on and makes it easier to find what you are looking for, whereas if it all looks the same, it’s not as simple as they all become too similar.

    Just because there isn’t a shit ton of padding, doesn’t mean it needs a redesign. Steam should definitely add skin support back though, for people who want to play around with it. I did personally use metro for the longest time.

    • Osa-Eris-Xero512@kbin.social
      4·
      11 months ago

      I stopped watching 3.5 minutes in when her ‘solution’ to the top level UI was to delete the downloads status button and half the other menus like ‘File’, you know where you exit the program and said ‘nobody uses’ all the store sorting tools. This should be used as a class for how to ruin your ux for the sake of a pretty ui

      • verysoft@kbin.social
        2·
        11 months ago

        That new generation design mentality, every webpage should have a max of 3 buttons, take up 50% of the page and the other half of the page can have 100 words maximum. Function over form please, every website is slowly devolving into this form over function bs the last 5-10 years. I think the UX designers all retired.

  • Neshura@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
    02·
    11 months ago

    I watched it a while ago and while I was not on board with all the changes to the store she completely lost me with the changes to the UI outside the store.

    Leave the download bar right where it is, also leave the friend list where it is. Multi monitor people actually use that stuff.

    Also don’t touch the god damn library. It’s fine, good even. Not sure what she’s on about a easy “Play” button for recent games missing, it’s right there in the Library home page.