Before months end this past March, You-tube launched a new design to its website and its claiming to be one of the biggest redesigns in YouTube history. Some of the features include a new see more videos function, which should make it possible to load a horizontal grid of all the videos uploaded by a particular user.
This feature will use AJAX technology so in terms users do not have to reload pages so they can look through additional videos. Here is the list of new changes listed by newteevee.com:
- A drop-down menu above the video reveals a horizontal scroll bar offering access to all videos of a particular uploader.
- Logged-in users find an option to control their video queue right next to the video they’re currently watching, complete with an option to turn autoplay on or off.
- The grey box next to the video that used to offer info, URL and embed code is gone. There’s now an embed button below each video, along with other sharing options. Info about the clip is also right below the actual video.
- A new subscription button as well as a customizable logo above the video is supposed to offer uploaders more recognition.
- The five-star rating system is gone. Most users apparently only used it to make fairly binary choices, voting on a video with either one or five stars, so the new video page simply features a thumbs-up and a thumbs-down button to express likes and dislikes.
- Users that haven’t logged in simply get to see a really, really long list of clips.
- The masthead of the page is cleaned up, with various links to channel and show pages gone.
This relates to my iteration because in my individual iteration #3 I used a ajax application for video's to show up on my webpage.
They are also fixing the comment section. I think it is great they are updating this all the time. Everyone uses it and if it is more user friendly that is awesome.
ReplyDeleteInteresting changes that they made to the site. I wonder what prompted the changes? Do you know if they did all this because of feedback from users or was this an internal project? Either way it looks great.
ReplyDelete@ Adam : I think it was pretty much the feedback given by the users because i think the you tube as a web application had horrible anomalies.
ReplyDeleteyeah i checked out youtube and their new design its ok i think i just have to get use to it. it does have some good new features using ajax.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if there was a video queue before or not, but I think that that is an awesome feature and I look forward to using it. It makes me happy when companies pay attention to their users, I think that it is the best way to be successful. Give your users what they want.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like YouTube took some of their feedback and made good use of it. Now the question is did they interpret the feedback correctly. Also did they make too many changes all together. I have seen users bulk at too many changes at once.
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