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Counterpoint: I can identify which part of the UI most of those come from. This level of variety between various UI functions is actually good. I don’t want the interface tabs or the settings tabs to be confused with tabs in the store, even though they are all tabs. I don’t want buttons to all look the same, especially not the huge purchase button. But even accepting that as an outlier I want some buttons to be clearly part of the steam UI and some as part of the site page I am on, so I don’t get confused.
Miraculously still better than GOG Galaxy…
There’s also some stupid UX choices that show they simply don’t give a fuck. On the Steam Deck when you want to update something and you don’t have enough space it simply says “not enough free space”. What use is that to me? Tell me how much you need!
Tell me how much you need!
More.
I click library. I am taken to downloads. Silly me.
And i hope it never changes. It works. Don’t touch it!
The only thing it lacks to me, is a menu to navigate to the game’s wine prefix. They already have one for the installation files, now they just need to add one for the prefix too
Really insane that companies will pay for memes like this to be posted but refuse to develop viable competition
Are you genuinely insinuating that something like Epic Game Store paid for this as guerilla marketing?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Flat design overdone like today is horrid
It certainly has character!
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.
this might be THe only thing i like about steam
I have no trouble using it in spite of this.
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
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.
Whatever you do don’t look up the video where a ux person fixes steam it will make you more annoyed.
Do you have a link? I will live with my regrets. Lol
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
