No, you are not imagining it — YouTube appears completely different.
The Google-owned tech large debuted a redesigned video participant this week, which signifies that the way in which your movies look has modified. The corporate described it as a shift to create a extra “expressive and intuitive expertise.” In apply, this implies lots of the buttons are extra clear (sound acquainted?). The modifications goal to make “the viewing expertise extra visually satisfying whereas obscuring much less content material.”
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These aren’t technical phrases, however the brand new participant embraces a bubbly, rounded design in lieu of its extra pared-down, simplistic previous. The buttons additionally appear a lot bigger, which might really feel extra obtrusive, even when the transparency makes them much less so in actuality.
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There are different, smaller modifications, too, throughout the various methods you’ll be able to watch YouTube — iOS, Android, internet, and TV. On a tv, as an example, video particulars moved to the upper-left nook. The double-tap to hunt characteristic has been made “extra fashionable and fewer intrusive,” based on the corporate. YouTube additionally launched a brand new visible for remark threading, which ought to make replies simpler to observe.
General, it is not a large change to how YouTube works. However the modifications are definitely sufficient to make you pause when firing up a brand new video on the platform.
