Submitted 11 months ago by RustedSwitch@lemmy.world to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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.
Been using Steam since its debut and while I don’t like 100% of this, good lord it’s nice seeing someone actually trying.
I would absolutely love this as a starting point.
For all Gaben’s MS/Windows angst, its long term bloat and mishmash of design language/features he’s not wrong), this really does illustrate the need for Gaben to get his house in order.
10/10 would support
Ew, YouTube… Where is piped-bot?!
Can you still do custom Steam skins? I remember that being a feature many years ago.
nope. Got removed when they switched from Vgui to CEF
Official support may be gone, but there seem to be tools out there that will let you modify your Steam install.
Of course, you need to be careful. Don’t do this if you have payment information saved to your Steam account and don’t purchase games through a modded client or you will get your credit card details stolen.
Someone could take this redesign and apply it to modern Steam, though I don’t think it’s much better.
Following…
What do you think?
Are there screenshots of the different sections? I cant watch a video rn
All in all? Pretty horrendous. Looks like a template taken from Soulless MoneyGrab Inc. but with some added steam elements.
Change and innovation is not bad, but while perhaps not especially beautifully, the current user interface is pretty decent in the storm that is nowadays “looks over function”-mentality.
I’d say I like about 60-70% of their changes.
@PostWatchBot@lemy.lol
verysoft@kbin.social 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, but the main store, discovery and library are all totally functional and nice imo.
Just because there isn't a shit ton of padding, doesn't mean it needs a redesign.
Osa-Eris-Xero512@kbin.social 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 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.
jard@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
BloodSlut@lemmy.world 11 months ago
i exit steam whenever i close the window
well, i did, until valve removed that option…