Which year Steam UI was your favorite ?

[Krankky]

For me its 2013. Easy to use and manage things, not oversimplified, very nice dark / black design.

Nowadays Steam UI feels too modern and oversimplified. When you ALT + TAB now, you can't even see the exact time and hours played in the last 2 weeks. Their whole blue design is just an eyesore.

Plus even if you wanted to change the current Steam UI / Skin, you can't because they took that option away...

[Phantom]

I genuinely loved the previous UI that we now get with -vgui.

I started using Steam at around 2017, and the only UI i loved was the previous one.

If -vgui would work forever, i'd keep using it.

[Crazy Tiger]

I don't have a favorite. All of them had their own charm and their own annoyances. They all had bugs as well.

[vkobe]

pré 2018 ui

[Xautos]

not this new one, i'm still waiting for a fix to this steam ui acting like a background image and the washed out effect. the one just previous to this was fine.

[NakiBest]

Latest one. :)

[Takohashi]

Originally posted by NakiBest:

Latest one. :)

I agree. It looks clean and modern. Old versions of UI looked like they were made by programmers, not designers.

Originally posted by Krankky:

When you ALT + TAB now, you can't even see the exact time and hours played in the last 2 weeks. Their whole blue design is just an eyesore.

Do you mean this or what? https://i.imgur.com/b4RXLdw.png

[Jack Schitt]

I also liked the black UI from 2013 the most. I don't mind the 2015-2023 blue. I absolutely hate this new design they just released. The features added are cool but they used effects and design tactics that have been no no's, completely avoided and highly frowned upon, for several decades now. Namely default active links being blue with an underline. That's absolutely horrid, I can't stand looking at it.

[Takohashi]

Originally posted by Jack Schitt:

Namely default active links being blue with an underline.

It's not "active blue link with underline" like in the default css. This is the highlighted bottom border of the menu item. This is a commonly used interface design option. For example Play Store -- https://i.imgur.com/QVPYKMc.png
Or highlighting the left border of the vertical menu (Windows Settings, Microsoft Store, etc)

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Any previous UI that had the List View. Best sorting options and had a scaling slider.

[Jack Schitt]

Originally posted by Takohashi:

Originally posted by Jack Schitt:

Namely default active links being blue with an underline.

It's not "active blue link with underline" like in the default css. This is the highlighted bottom border of the menu item. This is a commonly used interface design option. For example Play Store -- https://i.imgur.com/QVPYKMc.png
Or highlighting the left border of the vertical menu (Windows Settings, Microsoft Store, etc)

I have been in web development since 1994. I'm fully aware of what it is. It's not the border it's an underline effect, more so it's really not an effect it's the default way links display when an effect or element attribute is not applied at all. Except they did apply it, they purposely made it that way for the active link.

I really don't care what it is or what it's not. It's ugly and, as I said, doing things that way has been a no no, highly frowned upon, for decades. Web and app front end designers have avoided doing it that way for over 30 years - because it's ugly.

This topic asks for an opinion. That's my opinion. I'm not arguing my opinion nor can my opinion be swayed.

it.
is.
fugly.

[NakiBest]

Originally posted by Takohashi:

Originally posted by NakiBest:

Latest one. :)

I agree. It looks clean and modern. Old versions of UI looked like they were made by programmers, not designers.

Sorry but I actually didn't mean it being "clean and modern".

I mostly meant the menus at the top, plus right-click menus when you click Steam icon in Windows OS Notification Area (formerly known as System Tray). :)

Old menus font text size was too tiny. It is much better (larger) now.

I hear on 4K displays this is even more pronounced.
(Only Full HD here, my 4K display sadly died on me and is not usable anymore..)