Comments on: Plex Roku Preview: A Faster, Simpler Navigation Experience

[Yaracuy]

@AmazingRando24

Every single one of us offers completely different libraries and every user has a different way they want to look at it. The best way to cater to that is more customization, not less.

Of course.

And then there is:

“The stuff you, as a developer and UI/UX designer, know will be there and can control” (horizontal) and

“The stuff you, as a developer and UI/UX designer don’t have any control about” (vertical).

Like your “horizontal shopping list”

New UI is an awful experience

When you’re designing a UI, you usually put fixed items — the stuff you know will be there — in a horizontal menu. These are usually actions, like: Search Settings / Preferences Your Profile Etc. This area is often called the action bar, and it’s horizontal because the number of items is predictable and limited. But when it comes to things you don’t control — stuff that can grow — vertical layout makes way more sense. Take Libraries, for example. I have 4, someone else might have 8, 12, 24,…