Nice work. Your result reminded me a bit of the MacOS Finder. The Finder still has a few icons that I never use, and the search bar is not really that obvious. In general, though, I really like using it. Thanks for uploading videos like this!
Yes! My wife said the same thing, and when I checked I was surprised at how similar it looked to the MacOs / Linux equivalent. Great minds think alike ;)
This really looks clean, I've been looking to practice my c++ skills, if it's ok with you I'll try and see if I can make it into reality. No promises lol😊
You should do a comparison of your design with the Windows 11 Explorer. Their search works within the current folder, and if you try to search a big location (like a whole drive) it is very slow. However, the search that is on the taskbar is nice and snappy.
Thanks for such a great one! I've a video request, can you make a tutorial on how to design packed UIs like calendar, stock chart app, project management software, something like that. Would love to see your approach to them for learning!
I personally liked that sidebar (details pane). And, you could also combine the searchbar with the breadcrumbs; just like Nautilus/Dolphin file managers. Overall better than original 👍🏻. Maybe SegoeUI font suits best on windows.
@@DemystifyingDesign Google doesn't give clear hints why some things are being suggested in the search results and I haven't seen anybody talk about it.
@@DemystifyingDesign Google doesn't give clear tips why are some things are being suggested in the search results and I haven't heard anybody talking about that.
Ah good point -- if I were to take a stab at the answer, I'd say that the difference with Google and the explorer interface is that there is really only one context for a Google search. You are always getting searching the index of "all of the internet" (unless you very specifically change that with the --site flag). In explorer, it is not clear to me what is being searched at any given moment, which folder? Which hard drive? etc.
I put the total duration of each design on the video description. 👍 This one was about 6 hours. Honestly, if I were doing this for real it would take me about 2 weeks though. Mostly because I'd have to tease out all the edge cases, test it, and polish it up a whole bunch.
More than anything, I want them to add a good and fast search tool to explorer. How come a software like Search Everything can give me results in real time but explorer takes a loong time to give results?
Searching (works): the ideal design Windows: if we have to use that terrible search... it's so over! I don't think I actually need to find that file so badly.
@@DemystifyingDesign The search feature in the file explorer often doesn't show what you are searching for and it mostly makes you wait an eternity just to tell you that it couldn't find anything
@@DemystifyingDesign Yeah, it's really bad. If you don't know which subfolder to look in, you have to start from Local Disk and I think it scans all windows system files (so dumb). Regardless, a basic search for a doc in Documents, starting from the main File Explorer page (This PC) takes 3minutes on my PC
I like how you included the file path in the search results
These things just come naturally to me these days
Nice work. Your result reminded me a bit of the MacOS Finder. The Finder still has a few icons that I never use, and the search bar is not really that obvious. In general, though, I really like using it. Thanks for uploading videos like this!
Yes! My wife said the same thing, and when I checked I was surprised at how similar it looked to the MacOs / Linux equivalent. Great minds think alike ;)
This really looks clean, I've been looking to practice my c++ skills, if it's ok with you I'll try and see if I can make it into reality. No promises lol😊
That would be so sick! If you do give it a shot please do share it with me, would love to test it out
You should do a comparison of your design with the Windows 11 Explorer. Their search works within the current folder, and if you try to search a big location (like a whole drive) it is very slow. However, the search that is on the taskbar is nice and snappy.
Yeah in retrospect I should have updated my OS before making this video lol. The new UI is *much* better
Thanks for such a great one! I've a video request, can you make a tutorial on how to design packed UIs like calendar, stock chart app, project management software, something like that. Would love to see your approach to them for learning!
Great suggestion! I'll add that to my calendar. Packed UIs are definitely harder to make.
I hope windows see this video and listen you and make it like this , great design thanks
man these designs r real good .. how can i get t see them fully
There's a Figma link in the description!
What version of Windows were you using? the explorer window on windows 11 is much cleaner than the one you started with
Still using windows 10 here sadly
I personally liked that sidebar (details pane). And, you could also combine the searchbar with the breadcrumbs; just like Nautilus/Dolphin file managers.
Overall better than original 👍🏻. Maybe SegoeUI font suits best on windows.
Yeah, in retrospect my font choice makes this feel very not windows 😅
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9:29 What about google?
What about it?
@@DemystifyingDesign Google doesn't give clear hints why some things are being suggested in the search results and I haven't seen anybody talk about it.
@@DemystifyingDesign Google doesn't give clear tips why are some things are being suggested in the search results and I haven't heard anybody talking about that.
Ah good point -- if I were to take a stab at the answer, I'd say that the difference with Google and the explorer interface is that there is really only one context for a Google search. You are always getting searching the index of "all of the internet" (unless you very specifically change that with the --site flag).
In explorer, it is not clear to me what is being searched at any given moment, which folder? Which hard drive? etc.
I would love to see this layout in the style of the windows 11 elements. This does not feel like it integrates into the system
Yeah fair enough - I was trying to make it look unique, but it does feel sort of "out of place"
@@DemystifyingDesign I still think that your design looks way more usable than the original
I'd like to think so too! I updated the font to Aptos in the Figma file and I'm not really noticing much of a difference tbh
How much would the whole redesign take you without filming?
I put the total duration of each design on the video description. 👍
This one was about 6 hours.
Honestly, if I were doing this for real it would take me about 2 weeks though. Mostly because I'd have to tease out all the edge cases, test it, and polish it up a whole bunch.
@@DemystifyingDesign Oh, thanks! I didn't know that you also include Figma files in the descriptions. That's useful!
Yeah!
I think you should have used the default windows font instead of inter
Yeah it does seem a bit disconnected from the brand doesn't it?
More than anything, I want them to add a good and fast search tool to explorer. How come a software like Search Everything can give me results in real time but explorer takes a loong time to give results?
I know right??
Searching (works): the ideal design
Windows: if we have to use that terrible search... it's so over! I don't think I actually need to find that file so badly.
What do you mean?
@@DemystifyingDesign The search feature in the file explorer often doesn't show what you are searching for and it mostly makes you wait an eternity just to tell you that it couldn't find anything
Ah yeah - it also only searches the directory that you're in currently, right?
@@DemystifyingDesign Yeah, it's really bad. If you don't know which subfolder to look in, you have to start from Local Disk and I think it scans all windows system files (so dumb). Regardless, a basic search for a doc in Documents, starting from the main File Explorer page (This PC) takes 3minutes on my PC
Yeah that's nuts. Whole system needs overhauled...
Nah. I don't like it. It looks like very MacOS design. Microsoft has done good job with Windows 11 File Explorer. I like that.
Ah, good thing this is just experimental then
Where are you from? The moment I think you're Scottish you start sounding American???
And irish
I'm Scottish yeah