No, that redesign is horrendous. It follows modern 'design' principles of putting as little information on the page as you can and that's just a no go.

Steam's current UI isn't bad at all, everything functions and is similar to previous versions allowing anyone to find their way around comfortably. There are some issues, like in the older workshop pages and there is absolutely a lot of QoL that could be made, but the main store, discovery and library are all totally functional and nice imo. Steam having a slightly different style on different pages isn't actually a bad thing, at a glance you can easily tell what page you are on and makes it easier to find what you are looking for, whereas if it all looks the same, it's not as simple as they all become too similar.

Just because there isn't a shit ton of padding, doesn't mean it needs a redesign. Steam should definitely add skin support back though, for people who want to play around with it. I did personally use metro for the longest time.

Been using Steam since its debut and while I don’t like 100% of this, good lord it’s nice seeing someone actually trying.

I would absolutely love this as a starting point.

For all Gaben’s MS/Windows angst, its long term bloat and mishmash of design language/features (he’s not wrong), this really does illustrate the need for Gaben to get his house in order.

10/10 would support

Can you still do custom Steam skins? I remember that being a feature many years ago.

I'd say I like about 60-70% of their changes.

What do you think of their redesign? I’m sure it’s not for everyone.

Ew, YouTube... Where is piped-bot?!

I watched it a while ago and while I was not on board with all the changes to the store she completely lost me with the changes to the UI outside the store.

Leave the download bar right where it is, also leave the friend list where it is. Multi monitor people actually use that stuff.

Also don't touch the god damn library. It's fine, good even. Not sure what she's on about a easy "Play" button for recent games missing, it's right there in the Library home page.

@PostWatchBot@lemy.lol

Valve needs to hire this person, my god. Love that they seem to really understand what users do with steam instead of just looking at it from miles away, removing every feature + calling it a redesign.

Steam's UI has long been the worst part of using Steam for me, to the point that I actively avoid using any steam features I don't have to. While they've made small parts of it prettier over time, figuring out how to do anything you haven't done before is difficult, there's clutter all over that makes information like reviews harder to scan, and to top it all off, every single page has a different UI I have to figure out.