What an atrocious design choice. All that wasted space and that sea of red. Ugh.
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YouTube iOS App Updated With New Design, In-App Editing Tools
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Material design is either very clean in apps or a complete train wreck.
Switched to Tubex on my iPad a few weeks ago. Must say it has been a refreshing change. And way smaller at a little under 8meg.
I don't mind the design it looks ok, however, the icon is what I find the worst part of the update. I don't understand why all these apps are going with the all white icon design, I personally find it horrible. All the color on my phone has been washed with white.
Couldn't disagree more. Material design is positively terrible. And those dialogs are unbalanced visually and have terrible touch targets. Material design is a fancy name for terrible design.
Yeah, that is straight up disgusting. And terrible if you're colorblind.
Can anyone confirm if this app has playback speed controls? That's by far the most important feature to people with too little time.
So, I'm not the biggest fan of material design, but to say that it's completely awful is unfair. Having used it on a Nexus 4, it does make sense. However, in the Apple context, it makes little to no sense. The bright red bar across the top is blinding to the eye. I couldn't stand to look at it.
I actually had this design a few weeks ago on both my iPad and my iPhone, so I went in search for an alternative. It's called YouPlayer. It seems to work pretty darn well, and has a nice Dark Mode as well (although there are a few bugs with it as well). It does have pip and split screen, so I really like it.
Material design isn't great, it isn't awful, but it should really stick to Android, as it makes the most sense in that context anyways.
I'm using ProTube... Enjoying the SplitView aspect.
I opened the YouTube app today around 4:00 after using it at about 2:30. I immediately pressed the home button and tapped the YouTube app again thinking I tapped on something else. When I realized that WAS the YouTube app I had to change my pants, I **** myself... Speaking of that I honestly feel like I could crap a better UI.
I haven't updated and I got the new design. I actually got the new design before the update showed in the store so I'm thinking its server side.
The entire app feels even more cramped than before on my iPhone 6, it’s so uncomfortable to use. Visually unbalanced now with the coloured (especially red) navigation bars, huge navigation bars everywhere that take away screen estate, especially when you’re scrolling upwards on a channel or playlist page. Beyond poor.
Am I the only one who has been using this update for at least a month now, maybe two? How is this new news??? I've been hating this change for a while lol. Although not long ago my app reverted back to an older version and I was happy. Same thing happened on my iPad too. Did this happen to anyone else? Were they testing it on certain users or something?? I'm very confused.
Why does the app icon still not have that flat look? It still looks like it's a pop out icon.
That's because it was a "selected" few they allowed to do a trial run. This is now a "public" update.
That's because it was a "selected" few they allowed to do a trial run. This is now a "public" update.
To go back to the home/subscription page, you have to go back through all the searches you performed beforehand. Very inconvenient and could potentially take a lot of time. The red bar is hideous and takes up way too much space. The people you follow now just show up as an image with a little blue dot below it to show they have new content. It didn't even prompt me for an update! I just opened it and saw this thing. It's a step back in my opinion.
Google uses their own design standards, not Apple's -- which, in a twist of irony, people compared to Google's flat design concepts when iOS7 came out.
Haha just looked it up after reading your post. 29,000+ one star ratings. The butt hurt in Adroid land is strong.
Interesting because every other app icon in the App Store that was developed by Google, the design is flat.
But it's got some fancy name and marketing gibberish and Matias Duarte is loved by the geeks at the Verge.