An Introduction to Youtube's New Design

Hey everyone, I’m Seung, a Product Manager on YouTube.com. I’m Kevin, a UX Designer on YouTube.com. I’m Mike, a Software Engineer on YouTube.com. And today we're rolling out a new version of our desktop website. Let’s talk about that. So here’s the new homepage. As you might notice, following Material Design, we revamped the overall design system to be cleaner and simpler. To really let the content shine through. We also introduced infinite scrolling, making browsing easier - you no longer need to click to see more videos. You might wonder where we put all the stuff we originally had in our footer. We consolidated all our user settings in one place - the new Account Menu. We wanted to make the new Account Menu the home for everything about you, including your channels and all your settings. One brand new setting we’re introducing is the Dark Theme. This has been requested by users for a long time and now you can activate it from the new Account Menu to cut down on glare and take in the true colors of the videos you watch. Let’s walk you through other parts of the site, like the Channel page. The new channel page is designed to be more immersive, with more focus on the creator. Alright, so now let’s talk about the Watch page. Like other parts of the site, we’ve cleaned it up so that focus is just on the video and the content. If you want a greater immersion, we’ve updated the Theater mode to be larger and with a dark header. Finally, we’ve also updated Transcripts, so that users with education or accessibility needs can watch the video and read along at the same time. Under the hood, we rebuilt the site from scratch on a fast and modern framework we call Polymer. It means that our users can enjoy watching videos faster, and as an extra bonus we can now introduce new features we couldn’t build before, such as Dark Theme and many more yet to come. So that’s the new site! Please give it a shot, and we hope you enjoy it. We have a lot of cool features in the works, so stay tuned to this channel.