New UI - Aesthetic feedback

[Filipi]

6 hours ago, LummoxJR said:

Zooming in is the opposite of helpful. Classic view fits a decent amount on screen but if you zoom in it no longer will; when zoomed to increase thumbnails to what Standard currently shows it would actually use space less effectively because of some aspects of that layout (namely updated/uploaded dates being on separate lines).

The current Standard view works well with the larger images and text, with my tweaks that snip out most of the ridiculous padding that was added in the beta. The designers are still overly committed to that padding for some reason.

I opened the survey, here we have the standard view: https://i.imgur.com/v2aar4o.png

Here is classic view zoomed in 130%: https://i.imgur.com/1zTXRrX.png

You will say it's a lot wider and won't fit on the screen, but hold on. Thumbnails the same size, description text is slightly larger and the box fits more words. The are fewer tiles which are effectively readable, but that's in-line with the redesign anyway. With less vertical padding (of which there is more than standard, but also there's a lot in the Classic view to do away with) that difference will be very slight. The Standard view also has a far smaller font size for the upload/update date, and they're in line. Using that in the Classic view, when zoomed in it will have the same thumbnail size, larger text, more text, and more tiles.

The only problem is that might not work monitors that are 1080p and smaller, since I think search results are already filling the entire screen horizontally. I can't figure out how to replicate the survey so that it looks like the real website does at 1080p. Zooming in expands the search menu on the left, so on 1080p and below zooming in classic view might result in fewer tiles. But again, this happened in the redesign almost everywhere so it seems to be the goal to see less. Home page has fewer games, game page has fewer Trending and Mods, only the search has the same amount of mods (20) despite taking up significantly more space.

At 1440p zooming in 130% (not in the survey, in the actual mod search as it is now) fills the screen completely. With a couple minor changes to Classic, which will not negatively impact Classic users, I can't see how zooming in is unhelpful or worse than Standard is now.

Edited April 30 by Filipi

[Superdeathblade]

 Been using the new UI for a while now it is still ass revert please

[LummoxJR]

8 hours ago, Filipi said:

The only problem is that might not work monitors that are 1080p and smaller, since I think search results are already filling the entire screen horizontally.

1080p is still a lot of users, including myself. Likely it's even a majority. Higher resolution only goes so far anyway unless the monitor is scaled up as well.

A design that doesn't work well at 1080p doesn't work.

[Filipi]

2 hours ago, LummoxJR said:

1080p is still a lot of users, including myself. Likely it's even a majority. Higher resolution only goes so far anyway unless the monitor is scaled up as well.

A design that doesn't work well at 1080p doesn't work.

The Standard design doesn't work well either. Too big.

Zoomed in Classic on 1080p might be too big, which is what you want.

[zloybelka]

15 hours ago, LummoxJR said:

1080p is still a lot of users, including myself. Likely it's even a majority.

It is a majority, one of the staff members mentioned that in an earlier UI discussion, IIRC.

[SkyrimMilkies]

Here to provide feedback: dislike. Nothing wrong with old one, new one obviously catering to mobile site users but who even is modding on their phone. Why does every website insist on bubbly and bloated designs, with ugly and boring backgrounds. Searching opens up unnecessary window, and below results shows unnecessary sections for other games, images, videos etc. This isn't a social media platform where I'll scroll and scroll. Kind of ironic for a site providing modding and customization to games doesn't allow users to customize their experience of the website itself. Who asked for this? Those that did should've had options to accomodated to their needs, and not for this to be forced upon everyone else that did not.

[Adrian5151]

I really don't like the new look of the website, and I wish there was an option to switch back to the old layout. I also don't understand why you're changing something that was perfectly fine and nobody complained about.

[temporalpoporal]

On 4/30/2025 at 5:47 PM, showler said:

Change your preferences here: https://next.nexusmods.com/settings/preferences

I could only find search default there. I still get unusable layout in the main page where I have to click several times until I get the mod listing.

I generally do not understand the collections at all and why they are stuffed at the start of the page. I can understand that they are good ways for new players to start experiecing mods but once you try 1-3 you figure out the set you want to go with and thats it.

I am really disappointed to nexusmods but well its obvious that in this time when healthcare professionals and politics cant do what they need to do everything else follows.

[CIA542n37t]

new interface is so ugly and I hate it so much!

[johnskyrim]

Individual game pages seem to be getting worse by the update. 

With today's additions, a padded border has been added to the trending files, further increasing the size of the area. This has no benefit to UX, looks unappealing (the new site already looks soulless like spotify) and has pushed the newly uploaded mods even further off the page, requiring more scrolling to see what was added. At 1440p, I can just about see the tops of the new mod thumbnails. Other factors contribute to this, such as the near 70px gap between elements and the nonsensical inconsistency on the second row of trending thumbnails. It's just bad webdesign with no benefit to readability (other than everything being MASSIVE)

This for example, is a waste of space. Is it really so important to see the entirity of the thumbnail? The top two trending mods have the text overlayed on top of the thumbnail. Why the inconsistency?

It looks so much better like this:

There are other changes that are being forced into the site, such as transition effects (which are slow) and dynamic gradients and blurs based on imagery that's already on the page. None of these effects look good. The gradient at the top of every mod home page makes the page look dull, boring and unenthusiastic, like a rainy day with a grey sky.