Steam has the best UI

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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

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  • maymay@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That would be 3 buttons not 40 like in the picture

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    • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No?

      I only mention colors, not styles.

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• QubaXR@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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• ech@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • technomad@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Steam does just that though, it’s design is shit for desktop.

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    • deur@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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  • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It certainly has character!

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  • coaxil@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Flat design overdone like today is horrid

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• ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • spujb@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    probably boosts user performance for users who have more experience like you but slightly hinders new users who haven’t got the hang of it yet

    if steam prioritizing retention of growing userbase is one of its goals, it’s not a bad strategy in my opinion

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• spujb@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  i know im silly for this but this is part of steam’s charm for me. i like that it just feels genuine like steam isn’t trying to lull you with all the tried and true marketing and UI best practices. it feels very practical, like using old windows 9X UIs.

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• lordnikon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Whatever you do don’t look up the video where a ux person fixes steam it will make you more annoyed.

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  • Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you’re talking about the one by Juxtaposed, I really like that redesign, it’s very usable.

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    • lordnikon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s the one drives me nuts it’s not like that on steam

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  • technomad@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Do you have a link? I will live with my regrets. Lol

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    • lordnikon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You have been warned

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• Metz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And i hope it never changes. It works. Don’t touch it!

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• Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Steam has a decade of different design choices stacked on top of each other. It’s weird AF that they just don’t update some of their old styles, but what’re gonna do?

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Reminds me of Windows UI — usable, but obviously a lot of glommed on tech debt that was never updated.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why did that get downvotes? This meme here is a remake of the meme about Windows’ UIs.

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• Halosheep@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bring back steam skins.

  Me mad.

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• endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wait till you discover windows ui. Fucking backup tool having advanced options that display 2 of the 3 options and you have to click more to see the third option. and then you realize the advanced options are the basic options. Absolute clown os.

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• the_radness@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wow. This comments section reads like 50 various versions of Colin Robinsos all swarming on this very post. Every single one of them finding a way to be more pedantic or curmudgeonly than the other.

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  • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well, how else would the energy vampire recharge? Huh? Random Internet person?! HOW?!¿¡

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• urheber@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  this might be THe only thing i like about steam

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• ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  While the app is definitely ugly, I spend less time on Steam than in the games I am launching with it. But I do not use any of the community features. If an online search brings me to a steam community, that’s how I end up there, for no other reason really.

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• BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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!

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Tell me how much you need!

    More.

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I click library. I am taken to downloads. Silly me.

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• SoftTeeth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Really insane that companies will pay for memes like this to be posted but refuse to develop viable competition

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Are you genuinely insinuating that something like Epic Game Store paid for this as guerilla marketing?

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    • SoftTeeth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There’s a current effort being made by games companies who see themselves as a competitor to valve to sow criticisms of Valve in online spaces.

      A ton of it is inorganic.

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Can’t you customize steam with CSS tho. But holy shit I didnt notice this until now.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And you still have to have it running, including their pseudo webbrowser, to log into your Steam account in a third-party tool.

  They should just provide an API with conditions for their DRM.

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• oyo@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Miraculously still better than GOG Galaxy…

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• kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  i really hate the custom window controls in the steam client

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• GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Give me the classic green/gray with white or orange/yellow text plz

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• Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As someone with crazy UI old, steam is not at the top of my list of problematic programs (Looking at everything epic has made. Seriously opening unreal engine is like a flashbang of what does this button even do?)

  But honestly, steam is easy to understand, the worst page is scrolling though games with its weird scrolling mechanic in the categories section.

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• BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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

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• LemoineFairclough@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Conway’s nightmare, Time travel

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It really doesn’t

  There is certainly worse but it isn’t stellar either

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  • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s the joke

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