Project: Web player redesign
Year: 2019
Role: UX designer x YouTube TV
Year: 2019
Role: UX designer x YouTube TV
A full redesign of the YouTube TV player on the web platform.
Goal
*Update web player UI to address common user complaints
*Create visual consistency across platforms
*Lay the groundwork for future projects to add functionality to the web player
*Update web player UI to address common user complaints
*Create visual consistency across platforms
*Lay the groundwork for future projects to add functionality to the web player
User pain points/needs
*Many Player controls remain undiscovered
*Users unsure which elements are clickable
*Overlay UI covers too much of the video
*UI breaks when page is scaled down
*Many Player controls remain undiscovered
*Users unsure which elements are clickable
*Overlay UI covers too much of the video
*UI breaks when page is scaled down
Design process
*Rearranged UI with softer edges to cover less of the video and look more modern
*Added tooltips to button icons to inform users about shortcuts and make buttons look more clickable
*Rearranged UI with softer edges to cover less of the video and look more modern
*Added tooltips to button icons to inform users about shortcuts and make buttons look more clickable
*Added breakpoints and miniplayer version in small sizes to make designs scalable
*Brought the UI closer to our TV in order to enable web to include features from TV in the future
Team
PM – Brianne Mirecki
Eng – Cassie Chin & Patrick Chapman
UXD – Ian Silva (prototype)
PM – Brianne Mirecki
Eng – Cassie Chin & Patrick Chapman
UXD – Ian Silva (prototype)
