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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.
It really doesn’t
There is certainly worse but it isn’t stellar either
That’s the joke
I have no trouble using it in spite of this.
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.
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.
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
Give me the classic green/gray with white or orange/yellow text plz
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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!
Flat design overdone like today is horrid
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.
Can’t you customize steam with CSS tho. But holy shit I didnt notice this until now.
And you still have to have it running, including their pseudo webbrowser, to log into your Steam account in a third-party tool.
They should just provide an API with conditions for their DRM.
And workshop should have a “Download” button, steamcmd sucks for that.
this might be THe only thing i like about steam
i really hate the custom window controls in the steam client
I have never noticed this. Shows how the average consumer doesn’t really care about consistent design languages.
Given Valve’s history of taking play testing really seriously, I wonder if this is something they’ve realized through user testing?
Maybe there’s some advantage even because for the ones I’ve used a lot i know at a glance which part of steam they’re in, which wouldn’t be as easy if the only difference was the text. And each part of steam is usually internally consistent, at least mostly.
