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Youtube Re-design in the works focusing on Google+ & Subscriptions
Brandon Davenport
Youtube has been morphing over the past few months with numerous design itterations and most recently Cosmic Panda, but the design team has hit a sweet spot and are now testing a new site-wide re-design. The focuses looking forward is simplicity, content subscriptions, integration with other Google properties and a slick new design — but the biggest impact of it all will be a tight integration with Google+.
A short while ago, Google launched a system-wide re-design and a new initiative to all of their web properties (Gmail, Maps, Docs, Google+) to simplify things and allow more coherent integration. The new consistency in Google’s design is going to allow them to more tightly integrate Youtube with existing services, and hopefully provide a better user experience.
Deeper details via TNW
- Deeper Google+ integration shows off YouTube content your Circles have shared to Google+, letting you surf user-recommended videos from people you might actually care about.
- New left-column dashboard sorts your Subscriptions and more into easily-clickable sections, including featured videos and recommended content categories.
- Homepage content will be displayed in a single column, putting a focus on larger preview images for videos.
- A slight color scheme tweak (new gray background) highlights content.
- The “fullscreen” button in actual YouTube videos will receive a more user-friendly update, giving viewers the option to shrink, expand or, yes, fullscreen the video.
- Recommended video content pops out when clicked, allowing you to easily exit to where you last were before clicking after viewing.
- Clicking the YouTube logo on the top left of the site will lead to http://www.youtube.com/guide.
- YouTube’s favicon will also be switched out for an updated version.
Screenshots of the new Youtube
