I Redesigned the ENTIRE Steam UI from Scratch 

Curious to know what you think! What did you agree/disagree with in this redesign? (I need a huge break from anything steamy or anything blue lol)

I see so many of these "Redesigning" videos and they all revolve around making it look flashy and fancy, but none of them actually solve the intrinsic issues with the user experience. You show great understanding of both UX and UI, so much so that it captivated me to sit through the entire 20 minute video. Well done!

At first I was thinking "I don't mind the Steam UI, I think it's mostly fine...". Then two minutes into the video I was already mind blown by how much better you were making things. At the end, your design was SO much better, and still very in line with the original.

As a UI design professor, I can say that the work you have done is impressive. Without a doubt, Steam's main problem is that many sections have been updated while others have not, showing their age. Hopefully Gabe sees this video and hires you. Congratulations, new subscriber.

Okay, I've got to 13:22 and I just wanna say I've seen a couple redesign videos / shorts for steams UI and I have to say, this is _the_ version of Steam I would want to see, all the others feel soulless or just a copy-paste of other places, here you're preserving the cool things about steam, and even sticking to the colour UI, its awesome!

The authenticity era of RU-vid has begun. Getting recommendations of outstanding content like this…. Ahhh how I’ve missed it. Brilliant video

Bruh i didn't expect the community section to be redesigned, great work, absolutely insane.

Watching this made me realize, and i mean this as a compliment, you made the desktop version of the new big picture mode

Honestly, The downloads on the bottom with the "manage downloads" and the bar that show progress is one of their best ui. No joke. You cannot take that away

I didn't realise just how bad this was until halfway through this video. What a fantastic, pragmatic, sensible and clean re-design! You're hired!

I died when I saw the Twitter icon. This is an incredible, in depth redesign. Fantastic job. I can’t imagine how much work this took. I want this to be the actual interface so bad.

I would call it more of a UX design change than UI. as visually you didn't change much which is a good thing, not everything needs to be minimalistic and fancy looking. You kept that RAW FEELING that STEAM has while improving the User Experience part of it. Many time I myself get confused navigating Steam, especially the Profile/Account section confuses me to my core, can't easily find Reciepts/Achievements/Payments/Addresses/Security, etc have to keep looking. This is really amazing. Next can you do for Amazon ? it too needs a UX change desperately.

I think the reason they don’t allow multiple downloads at a time is because steam decompresses files as they download Having too many downloads will stress your pc too much and make nigh on unusable unless they change how games are installed

Such high quality and an amazing design! I love how seamlessly you transition from page to page

Up until now I haven't realized how complicated and hard to use Steam UI is! Really good work!

I was looking around the web for UX/UI inspiration and WOW, what an absolute gem this channel is. So much to learn from if you nitpick the details mentioned here. Amazing job Juxtopposed! :D

I've been watching your videos this semester for my web design class, it's been an amazing help hearing from you and getting new ideas/ways to think that I might be able to apply in my design too! Thank you!

As a UX designer, this is great! You did a lot more work than just UI, you did a lot of UX work too and I love it! Steam page has driven me nuts for years, so seeing someone else point it out made my day!

I usually have a negative kneejerk reaction to redesigns, but when the redesign process is explained like that it actually makes sense. Amazing job.

This is great! I love the design decisions you made, alot more user friendly! I really enjoyed this video, presenting your ideas in an entertaining and thoughtful manner. Well done!!

this video has really got me jazzed up about UI design again! this redesign is handled so thoughtfully and organized, super impressive work i'm totally going to look into designing stuff in figma now

okay so this is impressive on more than one account, first and most obvious the effort that goes into redesigning this primordial monster of a client. Second and equally impressive, is editing the video to easily visualize and entertain the viewer. you're amazing.

I hope Valve is taking notes because this is incredible.

im so glad i found your channel, it's so satisfying to watch u makin everything better

Absolutely gorgeous redesign, your commitment to using the same elements wherever possible really helped sell the visual idea that this is *Steam* and not just a bunch of random websites tossed together in a pot and let simmer. My only two nitpicks are: You can go to Steam -> Settings -> Interface and change the start up location to something other than the store, so it doesn't have to be the first thing you see And in the new library layout if you scroll up and click "Add shelf" and select "Recent Games" you can see the last dozen-ish games you've played/bought (to see just games you've actually played and not whatever you just bought do a shelf with "All Games" sorted by "Last Played", any purchased games won't show up) Neither of these are out and out criticisms, just some bits of knowledge I've picked up. Other than that, great video! I really loved the redesign of finding new games, especially changing what's displayed in the checkout page. Steam shouldn't be pushing random titles at you, but rather if you're buying title A it should recommend the very similar title B in the same way Amazon offers sensible recommendations "oh you want a coffee mug, how about a coaster to go with it?" Wheras Steam is more like "oh, a coffee mug, here's an air conditioner."

Damn I'm now angry and sad that we don't have the Steam UI like this. Such a wonderful redesign and also I love the format, editing and narration of the video. Didn't even feel the 20 mins. Fantastic job!

This is an insane amount of thought and effort put into a project that is unlikely to ever be implemented. But damn is it satisfying seeing what could be. Not only did you do all the work, but you also created and voiced / animated an entire presentation with explanations for each of the changes. Can't applaud this work enough! The amount of jank in the basic navigation that is solved by some of these changes would be a god send. Then I remember this is Valve, so even if by some miracle they took this type of advice, it would take them like 7 years to implement half of it, and it would be in the most unintuitive order possible. 😢

I love it! I had no idea UI / UX work could be this fun and interesting!

Valve should share the same love they pour into big picture into the desktop client Amazing job!

Stunning work. I'm so happy I found your channel. I work as a Senior product designer and this channel is such a breath of fresh air - actual quality design without buzzwords & clickbait etc. Great stuff, keep it up!

This is... literally perfect. There is literally just one single thing I don't like, which is the "Back to profile" button when on a user's game page. It just feels weird to appear there specifically and I feel like many people will struggle finding it. Otherwise, I like every single design choice, which is quite rare with UI I'd say.

This is my new favourite UI channel. Glad to have found this, great videos.

omg your talents with UI/UX and video editing are simply amazing!

I really like most of this - I think the only thing I had a knee-jerk "yuck" reaction to was the friend list being relegated to an in-app menu rather than kept standalone. That feels like a _really_ big step backwards for anyone who likes to keep the friends list open on a separate monitor. Instead, I'd prefer having a standalone conversations window that takes cues from other modern chat apps by having the friends list on the left and the current conversation on the right. Also adding keyboard shortcuts, like ctrl-k to search and switch between conversations. Everything else, though, is quite impressive to look at! Can't believe I had never heard of you before, definitely subscribing.

This is probably the only redesign video I've come across which genuinely makes UI/UX more functional and useful while still being faithful to the original design/feel and not making it feel like a generic 2023 website! Bravo! I wonder how long this entire project took!?

this is very impressive. This was very entertaining and high quality! Thankyou

Wow I am amazed not only by how good the redesign and how user friendly but also by ur patience too You're turning into my new fav RU-vidr that I just found out about

In the library you totally dismissed the most valuable part of the new library view for me. "News" or specifically "What's New". I love the fact that when I open my library the first thing I am shown is some important updates from the games I own so I can be easily notified of major update and posts from my games. I also think it was a mistake to swap the columns around on the game page and instead you could have made the "activity" feed better with things like actually showing a bit more information from news & patch notes that developers release. tbh, it really felt like you spent a lot of time on the store (which does need a lot of love) and then breeze over the Library. Anyway. I really did love a lot of the store updates (Though I disagree with swapping the rating text for straight numbers, numbers are just as meaningless and I think text at least coveys what vibe you should be thinking of) and loving fixing the color pallets.

This is one of the best redesign videos I have ever seen! You clearly focused on the UX side of design rather than the UI.

The design is so good! Ive watched other designs and you are the only one that didnt remove the brand identity of Steam. At the end of the video during the summary ive noticed how much looks like Steam but at the same time how much is good the design

I'm a casual user of Steam, but I watched through this entire video in one sitting because it was just so good. Prioritising the user experience and removing clutter from many UIs (like the search pages for example) makes it look so much more approachable compared to the regular Steam UI. You also managed to do an impressive job editing this video together to be entertaining, which held my attention very well throughout the duration of the video. I would love to use this new UI, it looks spectacular. Great video, I love it!

I am honestly impressed. Valve should hire you to make this happen.

The downloads button at the bottom is something I couldn't live without.

I'm impressed that your redesign is attractively modern and ideal, while staying akin and loyal to the original; Very clever and well-crafted. Great talent and thinking!

Valve should hire you. Not only did you make it look better, you also made it way more easy to navigate!

I'm studying UI/UX and I can say that there wasn't a better time to watch a video like this, one of my presentations is about even the steam platform (but for a new fictional product). Thank you so much for this amazing lesson Jux, really, really amazing job. I hope steam actually sees this video and contact you! Love from Portugal! 💖

As someone with no idea how to design any form of UI, I think that you did a great job at making things convenient and simple, without losing any of Steam's major functionality, and most importantly, it still looks like Steam!

HOLY CRAPPP!!!! This is AMAZING🔥. It looks so Cool. You have some serious talent sis. You nailed it and got a new sub👍. You did really good job. I wish that Steam implements this UI someday.

Hello, firstly, this is an amazing redesign, and it was very courageous of you to do one on Steam with all the controversy going around Steam redesigns. I don't often leave comments on videos here, but I saw how engaged you were with your community, which encouraged me to do so. I just wanted to ask you how much time did this take for you to make? (only the redesign, not editing or anything else) Also wanted to ask how much experience do you have with UI/UX in general? Maybe it would be interesting for you to make a QnA for other aspiring designers looking out for you. I'm definitely taking a membership with how much work you put into these videos!

Heads up, just want to point out that the Discovery Queue is EXTREMELY important and is one of the strongest internal discovery factors for lesser known indie game sales on Steam. So no, it is by no means useless. Loads of people use it and tons of devs and marketers have outright shown its positive influence on the amount of impressions/sales their game can have. I appreciate the experiment cleaning up Steam UI but some aspects of the store, especially when it comes to game discovery, has been driven by a decade of data-gather and algorithm crunching from Valve. Some redesigns need to be very careful to keep that in mind because one small misstep can mean a lot of indie devs suddenly getting screwed over.

This is just amazing thank you for all your work you're incredible

This could very well be a millenium skin! its a program that lets you make custom skins for steam and even change the positions of buttons, I have a skin that completely overhauls both the clien-side things (like the library) and the server-side things (like the web pages) to make them look slick and modern, if you are interested, you can make one too, it's completely open-source

Holy crap, u hit every nail on the coffin, every small issue that has been building up on steam, and just cleaned it all up, you have to get this into valves hands its honestly mind boggling how good this is

You did an awesome job that could only be done by someone that uses the software themselves! That's what most redesigns are lacking.

Oh my, this is something I have been dreaming about for a while

About time someone does a fine job on fixing steam UI. They should implement your design! This is awesomeness ❤

I really wish some of the Steam UI devs could see this and actually make use of your work here!

You're actually doing what Valve UX team supposed to be doing lmao and it's all excellent Valve REALLY needs to see this. Everything have already been handed over on a silver plate My only criticism (albeit small) is the Friend's Activity tab. I believe it should also have its own tab while also have the simplified versions near the friend tab because Activity tab is where people you followed showed up whether it be workshop creator or shitposter. Not to mention, your friend's screenshot and post will be there as well as it's just like twitter. While at it, renamed the Activity near the friend tab to Timeline and Activity to Activity Feed

You nailed it and made it fun to watch without making it tedious to watch. Amazing job, 12 points out of 10, they should hire you immediately. This stuff is legendary!

I think that's the biggest redesign project of steam for all time! Great work!

The designer in me is screaming in delight. I absolutely love that you addressed the dated issues with steam without changing so much that it's unrecognizable. You acutely understand what it's like to be a consumer and that's so lovely to see in a designer. Subbed and going to binge watch your videos tonight.

I tried to redesign steam for fun a while back and ultimately gave up after just the store and library. MASSIVE props to you for tackling the beast that is this program, and doing a damn good job too. On the video side of things I really enjoyed how this was shown to us through almost a story of how it came to be, and the jokes landed well too. Also huge thanks to dropping a Figma link! It's always a tad frustrating when I see a designers cool work but I can't experience it for my self.

I've been using Steam for 10 years. What I can say is that overall, it's pretty good. Just making Steam look "up to date" is amazing. There are just a few things I disliked: the removal of the discovery queue (this feature is great; it shows that I've browsed a total of 5'311 games, and you actually discover games, lmao), the categories are needed 100% (I just need them). And there's the friend list: it's inconvenient not to have it as another window (I always have it on my second monitor). Otherwise, the community revamp is insane! I love it. Also, the changes in the profile section should be extremely light, not as you showed, because a lot of money goes into it (it's crazy for some people).

I'm in love. I've been used to the old design since the ancient times but nearly every aspect of this was perfect, easy to follow and better than the old.

The redesign of our dreams 😭😭😭 I hope they see this and are inspired by it (maybe even adopt it???) This has to be singlehandedly one of the funniest and well-structured videos I've seen in a long time. Quality effort in explaining process while keeping my attention. Bravo!

I just love how much less busy everything is. I noticed with almost every page there was duplication of multiple types of navigation and all the buttons being different. I love the fact that you reused the filter components across multiple pages and made sure that there was a privary nav bar (for the web version) and the secondary nav bar for the desktop version. I also like the fact that alot of the pages would also work on other platforms

I didnt realise how messy Steam's UI was until you pointed it out. Great vid, i'm commenting to keep YT recommending content like thissss😎

Love the colour scheme and buttons, all!! aaa you great

Looks great!!! Only things I'll say is 10:34 I really like those lil reaction emojis (personally wouldn't get rid of them) and 11:02 I would have the icon 'unfill' when you hover over it. Having the background turn red would be enough for most cases but in the context of a heart, my mind doesn't immediately go 'danger' it instead just thinks that you're gonna heart it or something.

A bunch of quotes for this masterpiece. "Design is intelligence made visible." -- Alina Wheeler, author "Design adds value faster than it adds costs." -- Joel Spolsky, web programmer, writer, and creator of Trello "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." -- Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, Inc. Amazing work!

I am addicted to your wonderful videos! Thank you!

I got exhausted just by watching you remove and modify so many pages , insane effort has been put in this video u got a sub 👍 also I am a web development student and interest in css so got to learn many things about UI from this one

Great work, though there are three things that have a reasoning behind that I think was missed. First: one download at a time makes sense unless you have very good internet connection (talking like 10gbit - steam almost never had troubles with download speeds at 1gbit) - for an average user downloading two games makes much less sense than having a queue, because user is rarely capped at the steam download speeds, and often limited with their connection bandwidth. This way is you let user download 10 games at a single time they won’t get any of those 10 in a week. If you use queue, however, an average user will get something to play by the evening and with the priority they will have to pick one they want sooner, and other games will catch up in order. Second: the account settings are synced, others are computer specific. There’s a technical reason why it’s separated, though it’s relatively not very much complicated to overcome, the amount of things that could go wrong is big - you have to serve many of the settings offline, mix with online things. Third: hiding awards behind a button will simply unalive that feature and waste users points which will make a lot of people very angry. Summarizing, I think steam doesn’t have a redesign because it works fine and it has a terrible amount of features and usage patterns no one in the valve even aware about. With any, even most thoroughly planned redesign, you will make mad good 90% of the users - people hate new things, and really really mad quite a big fraction of those, as you will inevitably remove a thousands of links and use cases that were used by a fraction of people not they found that usage so convenient they will go bananas about any change in that. It’s s huge stake and probably the most complex design challenge there is. Maybe going iteratively with redefining design language without changing any feature set would be a good start (though it’s already contradictory, I mean you could try visually sync components and atoms across spaces), but I bet even this huge amount of work you’ve done is not a 5% of what really has to be done there, with the localization stuff and very specific cases that accumulated for over a decade. Redesigning steam is a s--e mission for any design team. You will have to work very very hard and won’t get any thanks after. But it has to be done. And I hope your video will help those poor people who will have to do that. Other than that we can only pray for those poor souls. And again, great work.

As a member of Steam for 17 Years, I will definitely want to see this as a mod to use for my own client Also, i would like to see more of the green Steam have, For example in the market home page or in the community pages. (maybe different green but i still need it) Amazing work !

Im utterly impressed Excellent work congratulations, you managed to heavily improve steam while keeping its soul

This is super detailed and cool :D

I had no idea there was so many clashing design elements for Steam. After all this time I've just gotten used to it. But now that you've pointed it out and showed us an alternative, I'll never be able to unsee it. I hope they hire you very soon.

I love how much details are even in the smallest sections which only get under 1s of screen time. Moreover it's absolutely ingenious to provide a link to the Figma file! 💙(heart needs to be in blue)

I would say, this is the best video i've ever seen in a while. Good job

just amazing jux, new subscriber here! keep it up broskiiii

Your understanding of clean, simple, efficient layouts is amazing. The way you didn't change the entire site to something unrecognizable, but just cleaned it up and simplified the existing site to make it feel so...comfortable, modern and cohesive. I starting watching this because of autoplay and ended up yelling "YES" and "FINALLY" at my screen until the end of the video. How it should be... thank you! If Steam was smart, they would hire you to do this. Are you a consultant? Subscribed and liked 👍

I love it It seems you understand what steam lacks very well. instead of just modernizing the UI, these changes make a lot of sense for the average user. Amazing job!

I wish these big companies would hire you, you would make my life so much better

very quality content, please keep it coming !

Waiting for the day Valve hires you as lead UI designer. Knowing Valve, Steam's UI makes me think that they have a crap ton of techincal debt. I wouldn't be surprised if there was code from ten years ago still running in production.

Wow just wow. Best steam design I’ve ever seen! I lode that you didn’t forget about what makes steam steam, the blue! (Cough hyperplexed). Keep doing the amazing work! Love your voice also!

You are very determined and hardworking individual. Congratulations and thanks for making such informative videos ...

It's crazy how well RU-vid's recommendeds have been lately! I would've never found this awesome video otherwise

Alright, now give me a few months to build a tampermonkey script to actually render my browser's steam page like your design lmao

Awesome! I would definitely want to use steam with this design. If I were to make a minor change, it would be activities. In my opinion, activities should have their own page instead of moving them to the friends & chat popup. It's more than just a timeline of events, it's more like social media with images and game reviews.

wow. when the video started I was thinking that I didn't really mind the steam ui so much. but this is just so, so, so, soooo much better. great jorb.

Great work. I like your design

Absolutely loved the video. This is incredible! 11:02 I would add some other change to the icon (for remove from wishlist) for on-hover. Maybe replace it with a broken-heart or an X (even better if it was animated). If background goes red but the icon is unaffected, users might get mixed signals due to correlations between hearts and the color red.

Really well done! I wish Steam looked like this. I only missed one thing from your design that I've been missing a long time from Steam: I want tabs in the store. That's it. I want to be able to open tabs to 50 different games on sale that I might be interested in during sales.

OMG, great design review of Steam. Chef's kiss! Beautiful!

This is amazing! I've been using Steam for last 10 years now and the platform really needs another redesign.

This has to be one of the most satisfying videos I've watched in a long time. Every time your little magic wand 🪄brushed across the screen, it instantly made something better. I don't know squat about UI design but it's clear that I just watched a master at work

This is excellent. Valve should definitely hire you to finalize this

Great video and concept!😊

Absolutely amazing work, and now I want that redesign on my steam