The new YouTube design should be live for all users by now soon. TechCrunch did a great post about it, but I have a complaint.
Isn't it strange from a design standpoint (not that I'm a designer) that Google would reject the ubiquitous black bar they have been testing at the top of Google pages and then opt for a black sidebar on YouTube?
Look at all of that content, too. And it's tiny. What happened to the whitespace they are married to in G+, Gmail, and Reader? They even squeezed plenty of whitespace into the right-hand parts of the grid on YouTube's new front page. There are so many videos, but still they managed whitespace.
Hopefully, someone at Google agrees with me and eventually fixes that sidebar because it should be the primary mode of entry for signed-in users who are looking for subscriptions, popular content, and other tie-ins to their Google account and other social networks.
I don't upload to YouTube, but I do use my subscriptions page to keep up with stuff posted by the awesome people I follow. This sidebar should help that somehow, and I can tell that substantively, it intends to do just that. It's just a bad user experience, in my less-than-humble opinion.
What about you, do you like the new design, hate it, or want to tell me why I'm wrong? If so, leave a comment so we can talk about it.
This was originally posted to joeross.posterous.com.
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