Welcome to the latest installment of our Innovation Series, a behind-the-scenes look at how the YouTube features find their way to your screen, as told by the people who create them.
Every TV fan knows there’s so much great content to watch right now. Sometimes you want to watch highlights from the Golden Globes, or marathon Yellowstone episodes when it’s cold out.
But somehow we still spend too much time scrolling through channels just to find something to watch. When we were building YouTube TV, our team spent a lot of time thinking about how we could make that experience better — we even considered not having a live guide whatsoever! But we decided we needed to meet our viewers where they are.
Today, we are walking you through the latest redesigns of YouTube TV’s Live and Library.
Our team’s philosophy is that YouTube TV is ‘TV Made For You’
You may have already noticed the updated live guide in your app, with new curated recommendations at the top, a simplified design and more key information for each live show or movie.
We’re now starting to roll out updates to the library, which will help you manage your content with improved content filtering and better organizational tools to make your library feel less cluttered. Users should begin seeing this redesign over the next few months.
We wanted to share our UX thinking behind these changes and how we kept our members and their viewing experience top of mind during the research and design process.