The most noticeable change you’ll see when you first view the redesigned YouTube site, however, is the Material Design-infused makeover. (It seems reasonable to think that it would make its way to mobile, though – after all, if Twitter can have dark mode, surely YouTube warrants one.) The company hasn’t yet confirmed if it will port Dark Theme to other devices, saying instead it will track the usage of Dark Theme first to see if the feature is widely adopted.
With less glare, it’s easier on your eyes and you can better see the videos’ true colors. The idea is that by changing YouTube’s white background to black, it offers a better viewing experience when you’re watching videos at night or with the lights off. Today, Dark Theme will be a simple switch users can toggle on or off from the site itself. The theming option was spotted in the wild last month, but required users to change a few settings in their Chrome browser in order to view it. YouTube’s new Dark Theme, for example, is something that was easier to develop thanks to Polymer. This then enables us to explore and then do more things,” he says. “It’s less about a particular feature, and it’s more about the velocity of which things can be brought to market. “Things that get built once can then be reapplied more quickly,” explains Manuel Bronstein, VP of Product Management at YouTube, of Polymer.
The project to build YouTube on Polymer started a year ago, and is the most significant aspect to YouTube’s redesign, even though it’s less visible to end users. The benefit to using Polymer is that it allows developers to create web components that can be re-used. The site has been rebuilt on top of Polymer, the open source JavaScript library introduced at the Google I/O developer event several years ago. However, what’s under the hood is perhaps YouTube’s biggest change yet. The site will also include a handful of new features, including a new dark mode, tweaks to search and channel pages, and an updated theater mode for watching videos in a larger player without going full-screen. To celebrate the milestone, the company is today launching a redesign of its desktop site, which now takes advantage of Google’s design language, Material Design, to make the site cleaner, simpler and more consistent with the YouTube app across devices.
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