YouTube, the world's most popular platform for sharing videos like this one. Home to some of the best content on the internet. YouTube used to have a unique design

style throughout the years. For example, sharp corners and lots of red everywhere, with a memorable layout. But recently, it's become more rounded out.

more gray, and added a bit of pink. We often forget what the "You" in YouTube means.

It means YOU! You guys are the users, so I asked you guys about your problems with YouTube, and oh my God, guys, what have they done to you?

Rest assured, I read all your messages and put my own experience as something of a YouTube user on top of it. So here's my redesign of YouTube.

Let me know what you think about it in the comments. YouTube's branding was always so simple and elegant.

Red for the main color and Roboto for the font. But recently, they made a teeny tiny change

to this red and made it a bit pinkish. They also put more pink in different places,

which is fine, and I'm not going to change that because we've got way bigger things to worry about,

like the icons. Every god-forsaken set of icons on this website has a different style; some are sharp, some are rounded. There are different icons for the

same thing, and the same icon for different things. Then the icon size doesn't make sense,

or the icons don't align with each other. Let's just use these beautiful Google Icons, perfectly

engineered for all use cases on YouTube. The inconsistencies go from icons to entire pages. What

if I told you that both the old channel design and the new one exist on YouTube at this very moment?

Yeah, seriously. Just go to an explore category like gaming and click on an auto-generated channel. This needs to be fixed, so we'll just use one style for everything on any layout and device. I find it

Funny that YouTube used to have a good tier layout, and at some point it just went downhill. Like how about we don't put the trending and stuff all the way down here and instead bring all the explore

options to the top because everyone uses this all the time. And instead of having these duplicates, just make it easier to find something as important as settings, but putting it out here. Then we have

a list of subscriptions taking so much space and being so useless. You know what's useful? Seeing a

list of all my subscriptions. Well, where's that? Oh, it's like right here; you just got to expand

this list and uh, scroll and scroll and uh, just about now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, just a little more. Huh,

it's here! And congratulations, while you were busy looking for a list of your subscriptions, you saw

a list of all your subscriptions. Look at this mess! Subscriptions here, is a feed that could literally

just be a filter on the homepage. Subscriptions here is a long list, and subscriptions here is a

useless button to another featureless page. Why don't we just merge them all together into a

proper dropdown and an actually useful page that we'll get to in a bit. And look, I don't know what

this blue thing means. Okay, bring back the numbers. And since there are these channel profile cards in

the comment section of videos, allow us to get them all across YouTube, including the sidebar. On mobile, there's home, shorts, subscriptions, you

and this annoying little upload icon, as if the average YouTube user needs to see and misclick it every second. Just like desktop, we need a homepage,

a quick swipe to reveal the explore options, a shorts page if you insist, subscriptions, and instead of a "U" page with all the account settings mixed with the activities on YouTube, let's have

a quick swipe to reveal the explore options, a shorts page if you insist, subscriptions, and instead of a page with all the account settings mixed with the activities on YouTube, let's have

a library page with your activities and an icon for your account stuff at the top to match other

Google products. Finally, I want to make it easier to search, so I'll replace the upload icon with it

and yeah, I might take some time to get used to it, but at least the hitbox would be bigger and

it would be much closer to your thumb. Now that we have the basics in, let's start our exploration by

merging all these categories in the sidebar into one explore page. I'm getting two birds with one stone: one, you get to trending and explore faster; and two, these other categories get

some exposure too by having a preview of them in different rows. Now let's put the trending videos

all the way on the top with more than just one row. This way you'd get a good sense of what's

happening everywhere, and if you'd like to explore more, you can view all. When I was looking at the

explore options, I felt the empty space of one category that would really be cool, and I wonder

why it doesn't exist: technology! Duh! Like, where are all these tech news and stuff supposed to go?

Think about it: YouTube. The issue with the YouTube homepage is more than just design. The homepage is

a sanctuary for all of our own interests—one of the most personal things about a human. And look:

you watch one video and your feed gets swarmed with that topic. You might tell YouTube what you

like and what you dislike, and there's no way to know if YouTube is actually updating it for you.

To fix these problems, YouTube could simply leave it to you to build your feed. Only if there was a

a little icon in here that opened your eyes to the magical world of choice. So you normally go about

your exploration on YouTube, and YouTube adds these tags for you based on your interests, and you can

filter out the content on your feed by clicking on them. Normal stuff, but if you ever want to modify

a tag that YouTube chose for you, you can use this. Just enter a tag that you want to watch. These tags

could be topics, content types, channels, and so on. So here are all the posts from your subscriptions.

It goes the other way around, too. You don't ever want to hear of something? Just mute it. Don't like

shorts on your homepage? Completely exclude it. If YouTube has any suggestions, it can show them here

at the end of the list, and if you'd like it, you can confirm it now to increase engagement. There

would be these types of boxes like, "Here are some videos you might have missed from your subscriptions," or, "Here are some videos based on

what you've been watching recently." And it could

choose to show more of them and accept them as a defining tag on your feed, or let YouTube know

that just because you watched something once, it doesn't mean that now your interest switched 180°

to that topic. Now let's watch this video. Yeah, literally this video. This is the most important

page of YouTube. I mean, this is YouTube, and we're all used to this layout more or less: videos up

here, comments down here, and suggestions on the side. As someone who designs, I'd say this layout

is pretty inefficient, because if you want to read the comments, you scroll completely out of the videos.

So, by that logic, it would make sense why YouTube decided to test this design a while back. But as a human and someone who uses the site, I'd say it looked bad and kind of introduced more problems

than it was trying to solve. For example, comments had less space to grow, so we had to scroll more,

and related videos had so little space, and that's why it made everyone mad. So let's stick with this

familiar face and fix its problems instead. Like, whatever kind of abomination this is—why is the channel name repeated here? The view count and

publish date are written so close to the style of

the description that makes them harder to see. And this isn't even the actual date. Why don't we bring

them up next to the main info about the video and free up more space? And while we're here, can

we talk about how misunderstood YouTube is about "Watch Later"? It's not a playlist; it's me saying

I don't have time now and I want to remember to watch it later. So don't give me this popup instead;

let me do it with one click. So later, when I finish watching the video, I'd see this huge reminder so

I could remove it if I don't want it piling up in my Watch Later list. And finally, about dislikes, I

say bring it back, but bring it back for everyone, including the comments. Have you noticed that the

comments never had a dislike counter? It's because back in the early days, YouTube integrated Google's

social media site called Google+, and on Google+, there was only a like button, or "plus one," and no

dislikes. So the YouTube dislike for comments was just a shell of a button. I think it's time

to change that, but guys, try to love each other. Life is just too short. Listen, I love the YouTube

comment section so much. I just can't wait to be able to follow who's replying to who, to fix

that. Let's make each comment a thread of replies and make it easier to open and close each

reply. And instead of this icon that shows the content creator has replied to a comment and make it harder to find where the comment is, make the content creator's first reply visible right

underneath. But the comment section itself is so deprived of features. Like, instead of a whole new

layout, how about we just add some filters like: top comments based on interactions and replies, most liked comments, newest, timed, and topic comments, and definitely a search box because a browser search

doesn't search all the replies; it just searches the stuff that's already loaded on the page

up here. You can see that this video has a live chat box and video suggestions. Clicking the live

chat box opens this up. This box gives so little space to the chat and makes it so annoyingly hard

to follow. So if YouTube wants to compete here, it has to make the chat take the whole page and add

these tabs up here to switch to suggestions or transcripts. Then the chat itself is very crowded, especially with all the profile pictures, and there's not enough contrast between the users

and their messages. And if you tag someone, it's the same color and font style. How about we grab

the color of each user's profile and put it on their username, then delete the profile pictures

and put some contrast in here. Another frustrating thing is that you can't watch the live stream in

full screen while reading the live chat. Like, the chat is half the fun. Instead, there are these three

buttons in full screen that, well, one of them doesn't even work. And then, surprisingly, there is a one-click "Watch later" here, as you've dedicated your whole screen to watching this video right now

and not when you're passing by this video casually. Make it make sense, YouTube! Then this share button

doesn't even use the YouTube share popup; it's just the operating system one instead. What if

we put a chat icon while in full screen that opens the sidebar with the chat? And if you want

the suggestions too, so you wouldn't have to get out of full-screen mode when you're just casually

watching your recommendations? But now that we're on the video, let's talk about its controls. This is

extremely cramped, and the order of options is pretty bad. Like, the video quality is much more

important than these others; it's kind of something you want to keep an eye on as well. So let's bring

it out here. Then let's merge all these extra options up here and open them in a new overlay. Now

I Redesigned the ENTIRE YouTube UI from Scratch

I Redesigned the ENTIRE YouTube UI from Scratch