YouTube: Unveils New Design
With an interface much more clean and neat, the most visited video site in the world plans to achieve better interaction between users.
After eight months of hard work, YouTube will place focus on its most important product: the videos.
"We had as many features implemented in the past two years and were forced to compete with others. With this design we wanted to put the focus back on videos. We want users to perform actions that matter instead of trying to understand what was there. "
That was the synthesis that sent Shiva Rajaraman, senior product manager at YouTube, in a conference with a handful of Latin American media about the changes that the site will now underway.
YouTube Redesigning internally began eight months ago and made public after two months of internal testing. "In the next six weeks we will be open to hearing proposals from users," said Rajaraman.
"The page loads much faster now than before and are looking for there is more interaction between users. Many of the ideas that we adopted was provided by the feedback of people, "he said.
changes
As shown in the images, YouTube is more emphasis on the interaction between users. The changes highlighted in this area are threefold: to override the rating system to a more simple "like / not like" and added a new list of "Videos that I liked."
Third, YouTube's new design incorporates a new comments section, where there is outstanding and the ability to send a video response.
much cleaner interface was achieved by grouping all information of a video in one place, allowing also deploy a flap with more details if the user wishes.
also wiped the action bar and are now more clearly the controls to share (share), mark (flag) or embed (embed) a video on an external site.
When clicking on the statistics displays a box explaining the history of the video.
The right section of the site also was changed completely, relying only to the next videos to be displayed.
The redesign includes a new suggestion system for related videos. According to YouTube, now based on how the user arrived at the video you are watching.
With this, the channel name and the button to subscribe (above right) came to be located above the video. "We found that our users prefer to take a quick look at the videos uploaded by a particular operator before subscribing to your channel" they said.
Finally, "there is a new interface for playlists, the next video in the list appearing consistently in the top right corner. The user can easily expand the list or jump, using the Next button in new controls player ", explained during the presentation. Print
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