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this might be THe only thing i like about steam
And i hope it never changes. It works. Don’t touch it!
I prefer it to most ui these days, tbh. Everything is either hypergeometric and boring, or forces mobile website design into desktop use for no good reason.
It certainly has character!
Flat design overdone like today is horrid
Steam does just that though, it’s design is shit for desktop.
Short of one window with multiple columns functioning as one long list of your games I fail to see how you want steam to act even more like a desktop application UI wise.
Give me the classic green/gray with white or orange/yellow text plz
This is the kind of shit that makes my eyes feel cross-eyed some times.
It really doesn’t
There is certainly worse but it isn’t stellar either
That’s the joke
Whatever you do don’t look up the video where a ux person fixes steam it will make you more annoyed.
If you’re talking about the one by Juxtaposed, I really like that redesign, it’s very usable.
Yeah that’s the one drives me nuts it’s not like that on steam
Do you have a link? I will live with my regrets. Lol
Miraculously still better than GOG Galaxy…
Your lack of sorting makes it look worse than it is.
Just looking at the buttons, they clearly have design documents, green is only used on buttons dealing with money.
Blue buttons primarily deals with social interactions or midrange store tasks
Grey buttons are for the local client
That would be 3 buttons not 40 like in the picture
No?
I only mention colors, not styles.
Can’t you customize steam with CSS tho. But holy shit I didnt notice this until now.
Wait till you discover windows ui. Fucking backup tool having advanced options that display 2 of the 3 options and you have to click more to see the third option. and then you realize the advanced options are the basic options. Absolute clown os.
I have no trouble using it in spite of this.
Yeah, in spite of it.
I’m a UX/UI designer. The point of a good user experience design is to make it intuitive. Every button has the same shape and font so you know it’s a button. The colors are consistent across primary and secondary buttons so you know which is the primary action. All the elements are consistent so you know what to expect and where to click, so it’s intuitive.
You have no trouble using it because you’ve learned where everything is. If you were using it for the first time, or wanted to find some new feature, you would have to click around and learn by trial and error. That’s a bad user experience.
I genuinely don’t care about the buttons not looking the same. I have real complaints though. Primarily that if I’m looking at downloads, go to the store, then click library I see downloads again instead.
Right? The nerd who looks at steam on their phone and then on their desktop and rages about the UI… Like dude, chill.
The UX in UX/UI stands for User Experience and it’s great.
I think it’s actually very nice for the different areas of the program to have a distinct visual identity.
Imagine making the same type of image about your own furniture. A mish mash of a bunch of different items and styles, but when you put everything together it just looks like home
Lol, must be a headache for the devs maintaining it, but from the end user perspective it is way more pleasant of an experience than epic, origin, gog, ubi and whatever else is out there.
Wow. This comments section reads like 50 various versions of Colin Robinson, all swarming on this very post. Every single one of them finding a way to be more pedantic or curmudgeonly than the other.
Steam has a decade of different design choices stacked on top of each other. It’s weird AF that they just don’t update some of their old styles, but what’re gonna do?
