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While the app is definitely ugly, I spend less time on Steam than in the games I am launching with it. But I do not use any of the community features. If an online search brings me to a steam community, that’s how I end up there, for no other reason really.
i know im silly for this but this is part of steam’s charm for me. i like that it just feels genuine like steam isn’t trying to lull you with all the tried and true marketing and UI best practices. it feels very practical, like using old windows 9X UIs.
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
Counterpoint: I can identify which part of the UI most of those come from. This level of variety between various UI functions is actually good. I don’t want the interface tabs or the settings tabs to be confused with tabs in the store, even though they are all tabs. I don’t want buttons to all look the same, especially not the huge purchase button. But even accepting that as an outlier I want some buttons to be clearly part of the steam UI and some as part of the site page I am on, so I don’t get confused.
probably boosts user performance for users who have more experience like you but slightly hinders new users who haven’t got the hang of it yet
if steam prioritizing retention of growing userbase is one of its goals, it’s not a bad strategy in my opinion
This is the kind of shit that makes my eyes feel cross-eyed some times.
this might be THe only thing i like about steam
Whatever you do don’t look up the video where a ux person fixes steam it will make you more annoyed.
Do you have a link? I will live with my regrets. Lol
Definitely wish this redesign could actually happen. Thanks for sharing!
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
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.
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.
It certainly has character!
Reminds me of Windows UI — usable, but inconsistent. Obviously a lot of glommed on tech debt that was never updated.
Why did that get downvotes? This meme here is a remake of the meme about Windows’ UIs.
It really doesn’t
There is certainly worse but it isn’t stellar either
That’s the joke
Can’t you customize steam with CSS tho. But holy shit I didnt notice this until now.
The only thing it lacks to me, is a menu to navigate to the game’s wine prefix. They already have one for the installation files, now they just need to add one for the prefix too
