Thursday, November 10, 2011

YouTube tests new redesign in gray

Those who have failed a little time to procrastinate at work on Thursday probably did not realize the ultimate YouTube: a new site redesign. He began to be tested last week was released this week to a wider group of users. As the last experiment layout was in July, this may be evidence of the fact that YouTube plans to launch new layouts as fast as Mozilla and Google launch new Firefox and Chrome.



The first change you notice is the logo at first, which was darker, and the favicon has changed completely. In the new page was more gray and was not only in the background but in every section of the site. Some features links to the site were also changed and turned into buttons, such as signing a channel. The rest of the buttons followed the same shade of gray.

The new layout also came in video player, which has had its buttons and options simplified and transformed into symbols. It is very similar to the Cosmic Panda, that YouTube began testing in early July. But while the new design draws some inspiration from Cosmic Panda buttons and gray, the individual videos remains with the playlists to the player and not centralized.

In the mobile version of site YouTube is also testing a few weeks ago a new layout that is very similar to that shown above, with gray tones, with new player buttons and sharing options in the player itself.

For now it seems that the redesign is still in testing, with some bugs appearing. But now you can get a feel for the screenshots above, right? So say there, what you think of the new YouTube layout? Likes? If you do not like, okay, a few months they will probably change again.