I Fixed YouTube's 2024 Redesign | Speed UI Design

In the 84th episode of Demystifying Design, I'll be redesigning YouTube itself. YouTube has released an experimental redesign for 2024, and I couldn't help myself but polish it up.

Links from the video:

Important timestamps:
0:00 What's Wrong With YouTube?
0:51 YouTube's Design Constraints
1:55 Redesign Beings!
3:24 Video Player
4:38 Video Metadata
6:36 Comments
7:25 Related Videos
8:00 Redesign Finished!

This entire redesign took me about 6 hours to complete (over 1 day). Hope you enjoy!

Music licensed by Epidemic Sound:
Let's Go On A Trip, by Baegel
Taking Solace, by Gregory David
Run the Race, by Martin Hall
Final Target in Sight, by Trailer Worx

All content in this video is intended to be purely transformational in nature.

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[DemystifyingDesign]

Trying to get better with my lighting and sound design. Still a lot to learn...I was looking down a lot at my script a bit too much, and the first few frames are a bit blurry. Getting a wee bit more polished each week though. 😎

[mvargasmoran]

the new 2024 UI is pure visual pollution.
it looks like the lawyer from idiocracy watching Ow My Balls surrounded by ads.

[RipVanFish]

"Theres a few problems"
_Everything_

[Gronky]

they just rolled this out for real and i was led to this video in a panic because i do not like it

[harryhack]

Damn muscle memory. I wanted to read the comments and immediately started scrolling down... Only to realize instants later that the comments are now on the right...

[yourself]

the amount of self-control to not ask for a subscription in this context is crazy

[super-six-four]

my vote for you for a position "YT main designer"

[edhahaz]

Google has been deprioritizing search. (on all of their products) ... in favour of irrelevant garbage.

[MinCalm]

Sincerely hoping this one gets rolled back. I know i've gotten used to a lot of redesigns over the years, but this one really feels shitty.

[alfred.designs]

You made me smile when you said "I'm just a random designer, I can do whatever I want..." Love seeing designers have fun!

[fauxset]

Very nice video. I hate the new current UI with the comments pushed to the side & the bloated recommended videos at the bottom. Hoping they change it soon.

[blenderstudio]

that really looks nice.. very clean ui.. you should design the youtube home page also .

[ferociousgumby]

Oops, here I am again. Everything looks blurry today - has YT taken away the HD feature? Or is it just me going partially blind? I am not surprised at anything YT does now, but I am too low-tech to start trying to fix it.

[ambiguousdrink]

I just got the new UI and I have to say it's terrible. I rarely used the sidebar to find new videos and now 4/5 of my screen are filled by attention-grabbing thumbnails while I'm reading some very squished comments.

The "Expand" option for the comment section is very useful and I wish I could have it while also having the old UI.

I just don't get why youtube doesn't allow its users to choose between comments below and videos on the sidebar or the other way around. Make a switch like with dark and light modes.

Also I like your design a lot. I think there is a little "wasted" space here, like the video sidebar could be a little to the right and the video player bigger and to the left, but it looks very neat and nice. 👍

[Albert-Duz-It]

I can't stand the new design. I just installed the extension "Enhancer for YouTube" from the official Chrome Store.

[MarkoH]

Just told yotube in feedback that the design is unusuable and I won't use youtube any longer if they don't revert it.

[eeveeloverdoesgaming]

This is so much better than the actualy new UI its not even funny, the new one looks like it belongs on a freaking tablet or phone! When i saw it i didnt tollerate the new layout for a second and used any extentions i could find to get rid of it. Real talk though this is gods work you're doing with this and i love it!

[Iloverimjobs]

This update just rolled in for me today, I immediately submitted a user feedback for the first time just to angrily type out how much I hated it, then proceeded to get a chrome extension that reverted the UI change.

[aNaughtyFox]

Just got the new UI. Thanks for nothing, youtube. Now I want to spend even less time on this site :/

[tdkentertainment-vw]

5:30 I already check that before clicking, all I do after that evaluate the video and check comments