YouTube Unveils New Design Cosmic Panda

YouTube has just unveiled its new design that makes it look more like a catch-up TV service. It is called Project Panda and it looks pretty swish.

The new design makes major changes to the way playlists are used, moving them sometimes from a sidebar to a scrolling horizontal thumbnail bar just below the video you’re viewing.

The Videos are now set against a darker background to lower the contrast between the page background and video content.

Thumbnails are also bigger, and on the playlists they show up right under the video your watching.

Videos also come in three sizes rather than two, plus theres a fullscreen option. Then the Add to, and Share buttons are visually set off from the video controls to cleanly separate viewing from organizing.

Cosmic Panda’s biggest other big change is in channel customization. You can choose from four templates:

The Branding tab on the channel setup page makes for fewer clicks to add a background image or change your profile picture or avatar.

You can also keep videos running when moving between videos, playlists, and channels. Unfortunatly this is only available in Chrome Webbrowser.

Cosmic Panda does put YouTube’s look and feel and ease of use around where it should be.

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