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Google’s platform, YouTube TV, has just announced a critical design update that aims to improve the viewing experience and add more interactive features for users side-by-side with the content. Amazingly, users spend about a billion hours watching YouTube TV every day. Hence Google wants to simplify how people navigate and interact with YouTube’s content.
Interact with the comment section on YouTube TV without blocking the content viewport
Google’s recent blog post explained why it decided to overhaul the design in a manner that would allow passive viewing and make it possible for videos to be interactive. For this reason, there is now a sidebar on the screen that brings comments, descriptions, and reviews among other elements like shopping links, views and likes into one area called sidebar layout.
Previously, to get further information about something, you had to venture into overlays thus disrupting the content view. Now via sidebar layout, viewers can see additional information as well as interact with videos smoothly without obstructing the main video by simply placing it in a little invisible place on the left side of the screen.
The streamlined design will offer customers a more immersive viewing experience while giving them the ability to access more content and interact with other users through comments and likes. People will surely appreciate this change and receive it well considering almost 1 billion hours of videos watched daily on YouTube’s TV platform.
YouTube viewers on TV will soon witness the refreshed user interface
Google has said that it will be rolling out the updated viewing experience in stages over the coming days, which will enable people across its platform to take advantage of these new developments. Besides, Google wants this re-design also applied on YouTube TV thereby further enhancing the platform’s accessibility and functionality for different types of users.
Through these improvements, YouTube strives to keep evolving its platform to cater to the various needs of its audience by having a more intuitive and engaging viewership for televisions and other connected devices. While waiting for the unveiling of the new design, people are eagerly anticipating improved features and ease of navigation it promises among others.