There is far too much dead space on the new UIBlox-style design pages (create.roblox.com, talent.roblox.com)

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As a Roblox developer, it can be quite hard to read, view and use some aspects of the new web interfaces that Roblox is releasing. These new react-based pages are clearly designed from a mobile / tablet-first perspective, which can lead to difficulty actually using them in practice.

There is a massive amount of dead space that is introduced because these UIs do not have a standard margin - if we compare the old, legacy “Create” page to the new Creator Dashboard you can understand the change:

Stats: 974px on Legacy, 1679px on UIBlox-style
This is a 72% increase in margin size

This leads to some overstretching of components to sizes that I find difficult to navigate via mouse, and it increases the eye movement required to focus on different components compared to the old sites.

For example, to change two tabs (Games → Development Items) a user has to navigate the entire width of their screen - with nearly all of that being dead space:

This is a common theme among user feedback in the announcement threads, for example:

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@RealSubZeroExtabyte

This is an exciting addition!

One small thing though, I feel like theres a lot of unused space on the website (Im viewing this on PC/Browser). The Find Jobs page only shows two jobs at a time without scrolling, and there doesnt seem to be any sorting options (perhaps having sorting by compensation etc. would be helpful?)

And another thing I noticed was that the Find Creators page only shows 15 creators at a time on giant squares which seems a bit unecessary

Anyway, just my 2 cents, excited to see how this grows when the public rollout happens

@YouAutocompleteMe

I’m all for redesigning the way you navigate the current creations page, especially if it means speeding up the process.
I just don’t appreciate removing functionality.
List of things I’d like to see changed:

1. Smaller icons, so you can fit more. Current redesign has half of the items per-page as the previous design. Very annoying for someone like myself who has to sort through hundreds of images/models on a daily basis.
2. Dates Current redesign has dates completely removed from the list for seemingly no reason, this is another extremely helpful thing to see at a glance.
3. Infinite scrolling If you’re trying to make it better, why not let people load items by continuously scrolling, this functionality would be nice.
4. Better scaling Currently scales terribly even at 1080p in fullscreen, the sidebar is the right size, but your username is too small. And then your preview icons are absolutely massive. Changing the zoom in your browser makes it noticeably better, with the exception of the sidebar now being too small, and there being a LOT of wasted space on the bottom. How did someone come up with this? lol
5. Delete decals forever and ever Why do we use these again? They preview poorly, all of us would rather they just show the image anyway, as it doesn’t have weird alpha masking problems. And we use image IDs in-game, not decals.

@AREDEUS

Amazing update, please keep on working with this UI because it looks promising!

Some feedback:

Creations Page Public Beta 🤭 - #222 by bigcrazycarboy (link as it is very long)

@uhTeddy

I’m not sure how I feel about this. I feel like a lot of the options which I, and many other developers, enjoy are not featured in the redesign. Yes, I do enjoy the sleeker design, along with dark mode, however, It’s just very full, I feel like there could’ve been a lot more that could’ve been added with the space available. The main thing is the new UI just doesn’t feel or fit the rest of the website. I feel like every new page that is redesigned on the website is always a step ahead of the previous redesign causing it to just not fit with each other.

@ittrgrey

One of the other things I’d like to add is that it all feels a bit big compared to the regular ROBLOX website layout, and it would be nice to see it reduced somewhat to be in-line with it (I don’t mean the outgoing 2011/12 layouts, I mean the current ones).

@LowPolys

This is great, but could it be scaled down in width on ultrawide? Numbers are extremely far apart for me, making reading it a pain unless I move Google into half of my display.

@Evercyan

The ‘Live Stats’ tab seems to scale too much on a 16:9 ratio monitor, it appears fine when shrinking down the window.

It is undeniable that the new sites are aesthetically far nicer (it looks absolutely fire! - and I love the responsiveness), but the usability is hindered by the problems I have outlined above. If Roblox were to solve this problem, it would increase developer adoption of new service offerings and increase productivity for users of those applications, giving these interfaces the love and attention from users that they deserve!