Damn! YouTube Got Ugly!
Why does Google have to build things to a certain degree of ugliness? They always do that. They’re just creatively challenged, I guess.
Back in mid November I was getting all happy and stuff for Google because I thought they hired a few designers. I’m talking about the release of Gmail themes. Well what the fuck happened? They just ruined YouTube with a make over.
Redesigns are supposed to make things look better. But, damn! YouTube looks like it was designed by a complete noob. Did you look at the navbar? That’s just fubar. Shit couldn’t get more hilarious. Microsoft fucks up Hotmail and now YouTube gets screwed by Google. Nice.
I don’t see what the point of the redesign was? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t even notice any major changes. The header got shorter, the logo got smaller and the navbar got raped. That’s about it.
Sometimes I feel like I could do a better job than these designers who make the big bucks for making this fugly. Well enjoy the new YouTube.
Lets rant! Hate the redesign? I know you do. Tell me about it. Swear the fuck out. I won’t mind.
4 December 2008 at 11:34 pm
I couldn’t agree more! the redesign is hideous. Same goes to when youtube videos are embedded and there’s that ugly search bar at the top. It’s as if they went back in time to the 1990s.
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5 December 2008 at 3:21 pm
I must agree, I don’t like the changes that have been made. It looks very old school and misaligned. What the hell!
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5 December 2008 at 9:38 pm
What’s different? I mean its a bit wider?
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6 December 2008 at 6:40 pm
I totally agree with you. It looks horrible. Why can’t they take some inspiration from the web design of websites such as Facebook, where every little icon is designed to match the rest of the site? Where everything is organized?
The widescreen makes the narrower videos look lacking.
The new ads - they’re just everywhere. When you search for certain things, sponsored videos appear on the right hand side. It’s all a revenue-maximising thing now… But they may just end up losing out because people may start using it less.
What’s with the bright blue? How primitive and boring. They could at least make the blue darker. They should make the site more visually appealing, not visually appalling…
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9 December 2008 at 1:54 pm
It does not look very good but these guys know what they are doing. It has a purpose. Clearing up header space makes more spaces for the “Videos being watched right now” and also “Featured Videos” sections.
A lot of people have to scroll down to watch a video. Now this has been reduced.
They would have had big board discussions about this and I am sure they would have given reasons to suggest these changes.
You may not notice them but they are there. Hidden away. For instance now because of less scrolling you will watch more videos in a certain time. This may seem like hardly any time but think about how many more videos will be watched by the millions of people accross the world. More ads will therefore be seen and therefore YouTube (Google) making more money.
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11 December 2008 at 9:26 pm
I don’t honestly know why they felt the need to redesign.
And what the fuck is with the widescreen shit? The least they could do is re-size the videos to fit in the thing without fucking them up.
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13 January 2009 at 6:10 pm
Why the hell do you have to take off the copyright off every software you use?
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13 January 2009 at 6:45 pm
Who does?
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21 February 2010 at 1:18 am
?Great post - I was just curious how do you get hold of such a good domain?
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