…Yeah. This looks kind of gross. It’s less intuitive, is harder to see, there’s lots of wasted space, and honestly…looks like whoever designed this didn’t really know what they were doing or just has poor taste. Either that, or they designed it for a very specific crowd in mind and probably “looked good” during some meeting. “Ooo shiny” doesn’t make it good.
It only looks somewhat good in dark mode and it seems to have been made with that in mind.
If the new UI is completely optional, that’s fine. But this sort of thing shouldn’t be a forced change if it ever comes to that. I’m sure it appeals to some.
Note: I swear many of these comments sound like bots or “yes men”.
agree, it looks terrible, every button has been flipped 180 - why is the play button all the way up in the left section, - why is toolbox, explorer settings buttons at the right, what does the character button do?, the color button, all these quick create buttons, it looks so bad, the page buttons at the middle top, the current old top bar looks perfect Idk why they gotta change up everything, hope they dont start like youtube making unnecessary UI changes, btw idk why they brag about making it in Lua, isnt it better at C++? its faster more native?
I am all for moving UI to Luau, but if you’re going to do that, please just keep the same layout.
This is terrible and I hate it.
Here’s a better suggestion: Let us be able to design our own UI for our own Studio. That will make it easier for people to tailor their UI to match their workflow and allow them to work the most efficiently.
Nope - you won’t be able to.
Like Windows XP (for eg) - it’s old limited architecture - and won’t be managed anymore.
In fact - it will be totally removed.
Please do not implement this. It’s been uncomfortable the moment I started using it, theres too much space wasted (which reduces your screen) and the plugin layout is cramped asl. Sure I like the new features but it’s odd when you set it up.
You might as well put this layout aside.
For anyone who wants to disable:
File - Beta Features - Next Gen Studio Preview - Turn it off!
You can always, ALWAYS, count on roblox to mess up UI that everybody loved and was used to. It seems roblox’s right now thinks elders are playing so they want to boost EVERY UI BY 175%??
For years its always been messing with the pause menu and everyone hating every weird UI change so now they have reverted it.
More recently it was the catalog, introducing huge bulky buttons that are slow to navigate! And a reminder on who asked for the update, nobody!
Now the studio… Removing 50% of the features on the home tab, why you’re asking?? So they can upscale the UI to ridiculous sizes and space them out ridiculously far!
Okay, surely they know that this will mess up basically every developer and will be toggleable outside of the beta stage right? PROBABLY NOT!? they have done things like this in the past where the fix was the simply turn it off in beta but fast forwards a month or so and oops, toggle is gone, now you’re stuck with it even though every forum on it was talking about how terrible it was!!
What? Buttons are smaller, harder to make out, and yet they take up more space than the previous bigger buttons?? Get this together guys, 80 year olds aren’t making games, people with normal eyesight are.
Basic media literacy grants you the knowledge that the new compact design with multiple options for compactness is coming along with other design changes that have been in the works for a while
Scrolling through the forum will tell you that maybe, but the root post here is the only forum post linked inside of Studio itself, so people are coming to the year old post (myself included) and seeing nothing but the headlines which is that this is the new next gen icon list and immediately getting frustrated, if you are curious the only thing that this top post mentions on compactness is that “Padding, spacing, and layout values are a work in progress” which doesn’t actually say anything about it becoming more compact
I also am on the side of thinking this is strange to be rolling out to people this early for the sake of ‘getting your muscle memory used to it’ if its still in a beta where the UI and therefore UX is gonna change
Scrolling down from the top post will reveal a “Solved” mark with a link to the updated post, which is where the main discussion taking place. The FFlag for the beta link will soon be updated probably to fix the issue you mentioned anyway.
Even though this is not the finalized design, this version is the closest version we have to the final. Therefore if Roblox wants people to get used to the UI more smoothly, they need to release the beta to a broader amount of people by enrolling people automatically to the beta.
If they enabled the Beta closer to the initial release, people would have less time to adapt to the UI.
I suppose I can’t complain since it’s a toggle-able option. (for now… and for how long?)
But it’s just so bloated… and oversimplified like everything nowadays. Is that what “next-gen” is supposed to mean? Why are the buttons colour-coded when they’re in their own separate tabs? I would never choose this over the current format. Call me old-school if you want, but you’d have to force me to use this.
Basically, KEEP THIS TOGGABLE!!