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.

  • Osa-Eris-Xero512@kbin.social
    374·
    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
        71·
        11 months ago

        They have some good quality of life suggestions in the video, but also a lot of horrible design decisions.

        I do like the idea of displaying the review ratios on games instead of “Mostly positive” etc. and the expanding info when you hover which moves the add to cart button is a problem Valve could fix. But that’s like the only takeaways, everything else was a downgrade, while I can see where they are coming from with their ideas… they are just not good UX. Their design is a case of wasting space and minimising the amount of stuff shown, they just outright remove useful information because ‘it exists elsewhere’. Just because it exists elsewhere doesn’t mean it can’t be somewhere else to be seen at a glance.

        They mostly looked at it from a design perspective and not a functionality perspective, they are new to Steam it seems from their profile shown in the video, so it makes sense they don’t really know what people want/expect from the application.

      • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
        33·
        11 months ago

        I think you’re making the classic mistake of “all users are like me”. I personally liked pretty much all of her proposed changes and agree with her that Steam’s current offering is a mess of disjointed design elements. I find the layout noisy, complicated, and hard to navigate, while her proposals all felt intuitive.

    • verysoft@kbin.social
      144·
      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.