YouTube App:
Video player  and the stuff besides the player.

BUILDING FOR NEXT BILLION USERS

WhatsApp for Small Businesses in India

BUILDING FOR NEXT BILLION USERS

WhatsApp for Small Businesses in India

BUILDING FOR NEXT BILLION USERS

WhatsApp for Small Businesses in India

YouTube Watch Mobile page app UI

With a global community of two billion people on YouTube, we are always focused on making it easier for our viewers to watch and interact with their favorite videos. ⏪ 📺 ⏩ 👀

We get over 2 Billion people visiting YouTube each day, spending a total of 2.5B hours on the platform. People spend most of the time on YouTube's Watch page watching their favorite videos. As part of the YouTube Watch UX team, my responsibilities include Watch Navigation features focused on ways to empower people to curate and control how they watch and navigate between videos.

#1. Video player

In my latest work, I designed a new interface for mobile app’s full-screen player, which makes it easier to like or dislike the currently playing video, view comments, share what you’re watching, and perform many other video related engagement actions.

The old version hid most of those features behind a swipe-up gesture on the “more videos” section, where the new version puts them a tap away, moving more videos to a button in the corner.

YouTube fullscreen player mobile UX design – old 2021

Before

YouTube fullscreen player mobile UX design – new 2022

Now

#2. Component design

In my early days,I designed a new component called Engagement Panel as a part of YouTube's system design library. It is a reusable UI component that opens over the area below the player, allowing users to engage with rich content while watching a video. For more immersive experiences, the panel can be expanded to fullscreen on portrait mobile.

YouTube App UX 1
YouTube App UX 1
YouTube App UX 3

Recent projects 😍 🔥

whatsapp-business-small-businesses-india-ux-design

December 2017

Designed a concept app for Small Businesses in India which enables better customer engagement. 


YouTube video watching screenshot

August 2019 - Present

Designing world’s most powerful and delightful video viewing experience. I focus on empowering viewers to control how they watch and navigate between videos. 

Designing world’s most powerful and delightful video viewing experience. I focus on empowering viewers to control how they watch and navigate between videos. 

Pixel 4 Camera UI

August 2018 - July 2019

Designed for world’s best smartphone camera app. Lead the UX for simplifying user-flows, immersive UI, social sharing, and user education for Pixel 4.

Designed for world’s best smartphone camera app. Lead the UX for simplifying user-flows, immersive UI, social sharing, and user education for Pixel 4.

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Get in touch!

Connect with me on twitter, linkedin or email me at kartikrao31@gmail.com

Get in touch!

Connect with me on twitter, linkedin or email me at kartikrao31@gmail.com

Get in touch!

Connect with me on twitter, linkedin or email me at kartikrao31@gmail.com