So everything now takes up marginally more space despite every tab having significantly less elements than the previous UI?
Tons of buttons that absolutely nobody ever complained about removed/moved to where nobody can find them?
The perfectly fine and easily accessible “View” tab removed entirely and its contents scattered everywhere across with no intuitive way to find/access them? Not to mention how the view tab had little icons for each element roughly showcasing what its for beyond the name;
This feels like it was made to purposefully overcomplicate things with all the unnecessary drop downs and such, a genuine workflow killer, not because it’s new and people aren’t used to it, but because it seems to be mostly designed that way.
It used to be compact and fit plenty of features within the same few tabs, very handy and required very little navigation work, i wholeheartedly beg of thee to keep it that way.
All of the tab icons being made bigger and taking up more space seems like it was designed to be easier to read/view & yet it directly gets contradicted by the amount of settings crammed into drop down menus that were also all stripped of their icons, feels very inconsistent.
Subjective here, but visually I personally don’t think it looks great either, it looks ‘dumbed down’ in a way, very corporate and unnecessarily simple. I’m by no means a UI designer but I am a user with 2 eyes and I’ve never understood the trend of oversimplifying every piece of interface & icons possible, it feels like being babied and generally comes off as less professional to me.
I understand that this isn’t the final product and there’s still plenty of issues yet to be fixed, however you’ve forced this UI upon me as if it was a finished product and thus I will comment on it as if it truly was that way (I’m aware I can revert via beta features)
As it stands, this is an enormous downgrade.
That said I am hopeful with enough feedback (from actual users) we can get this update to a somewhat useable result.
Just discovered the existence of this, and to be honest, not a fan of the UI changes. Especially in regards to the top bar, the new explorer on the other hand…is actually pretty fine, just needs to be more compact (smaller text and search bar) and we’re golden. The spacing of everything is downright atrocious, as it’s not at compact, the spacing of buttons, dividers, and oh my god the plugins are the worst offenders of this, that’s deal breaker for me, as I need space for the game window so I can see it properly. Oh and before anyone accuses me of being “nostalgic” and “automatically hating anything new”, I know damn well that Roblox is going to axe the old UI eventually, but the new UI has glaring problems for me. I’m just hoping that they don’t axe the old one right away (and force everyone to start using the new one) until they delivered everything they stated with the new UI (especially with whole UI customization, hopefully someone can turn the new UI into something similar to the old one).
Look, once they fix the spacing, have top bar collapsible again, and have the VIEW and TEST tab brought back in some way, I’ll be 100% willing to give this a shot and provide genuine criticism. Until then, I’m sticking to the old UI.
I gave this a shot earlier today, and honestly I’ve got mixed feelings about it in its current form. The ability to make and organize custom tabs is pretty cool, but the menus are unnecessarily spacious and a lot of options and existing tabs were hidden away or removed entirely which I really don’t like.
If this is going to fully replace the existing menu, it should at least have everything the current one has instead of hiding everything behind a bunch of tiny dropdowns. The missing stuff doesn’t have to be on by default, but it’d be nice if it was still built-in as customization is still limited to just individual buttons and dividers. Also, for people like me who prefer the current UI over this, there should be a way to customize the size/spacing of certain things to make it easier to adjust to.
Other than that, I like where this is going, and I hope that changes are made to accommodate for both new and current users before it launches.
I need to open my asset manger and I litreally cant find it…???
How do i turn beta off??? I got actual work I gotta do, why was this FORCED onto me with no notice?!?
hi i spent the day getting used to this and it’s pretty cool, main criticism is lots of things that were just one button before are in some annoying drop down menu or harder to access than before.
also i don’t like the layout at all there’s so much empty space that could be filled in that could be utilized to make it feel less awkward to use
> Opens new Studio UI discussion thread
> Expecting constructive feedback; UI isn’t as polished as I’d have hoped
> Sees some valid critiques from top-level replies
> Roblox staff replies to these critiques with promising news
> This is why actual feedback is important!
> Scrolls down to more recent replies hoping to see more of the above
> To my dismay, majority of the replies are pointless complaints
> Scrolls to see more copy and paste complaints about how “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”
> Even more complaints asking for legacy UI to be maintained / “revert the UI”
> A few users point out the needlessly annoying replies that add nothing to the thread
> Users get called “Roblox bootlickers”
> Other new replies that offer genuine feedback get drowned by the duplicate hate replies
> lol
Also, you can probably keep the same look of studio while having a refreshed feel to it. Like having little bubbles instead of how studio currently looks in the same exact spots so that our muscle memory isn’t ruined.
Built-in View and Test tabs. If I read this correctly, custom tabs will be supported, but I think it would be more beneficial to have them by default, especially for the View tab (which has been downgraded into a drop-down list, which isn’t really user-friendly compared to the old version).
An arrow for docking and undocking the ribbon. It can still be hidden by right clicking and selecting the option, but a direct button to do toggle this action would be less disruptive to workflow.
Adjustable padding setting in Studio. The current tab buttons are too big and have too much wasted space between them for my liking (which also makes changing the alignment a negligible action), and I would prefer them to be smaller. Have an option to change the padding/size of things so people like me can keep it compact (as in, the tabs take up only about half the length of the screen and are shorter in height like in the old Studio). Also would be great because I have lots of plugins installed and I would like to be able to have them all on the ribbon instead of needing to click on another dropdown button.
On another note, when the new Studio UI is released, will custom icons (like Vanilla) still be supported? The current Beta suggests no, but I’m not sure if it’s because its a Beta or because the update would override custom icons in the ribbon.
I don’t usually post here, but is there a way to disable this update? I’m not a fan of how small some of the icons are, especially given how much empty space is left—it doesn’t seem like that should be an issue.
after testing i found out there is tabs profiles, however i have alot of plugins and i would much prefer for the plugins profiles to be a dropdown, for example make all the plugins a single tab, and make a dropdown called Profiles, when u click it shows your profiles and u can add plugins the same way u do right now, because rn it just takes up a ton of tabs and destroys the compact feeling u went for
copy and pasting what i said on the older post because no attention was drawn to it
hi linux user here
i⠀ know roblox doesnt really focus too much on the linux community because god forbid they spend money and also the “hacking issues”, so ive been using vinegar, but what ive noticed with nextgen is that the tooltips are creating physical windows that dont behave well with my window manager
(or something like a tooltip behaviour option)
^ old version didnt do this, all extra tooltips were kept inside the main window, thats basically my only concern with actual functionality
i⠀ really dont wanna have this forced on me if it doesnt work with my machine, and for me this entire thing just seems like making things worse for the sake of it
(yes this is left-aligned)
for the little stuff at the top, there is a great distance between the computer icon and the left side of the home page, a lot of my muscle memory comes from the current version of studio, so the fact its a little bit off messes me up still sometimes
customization
i think its awesome that you guys are adding functionality to the studio which allows people to customize the topbar to their needs, but it sucks when its not in the areas which people are asking for
the best thing i can wish for is the ability to code your own ui, especially now that its using luau, but i also understand that takes time and effort
i just think some stylization from the user would definitely help the issue of others not liking the ui, because then theyre able to change it if they want to
to me it seems like imposing arbitrary ui tastes onto users, and thats disappointing to see when they liked the old one, obviously tools need to evolve but i dont understand why the frontend has to change along with it, but i prefer the old ui, design especially, so i am biased here
