A Different Idea For The SteamOS UI

Nice mockup from a technical perspective, but it feels luke-warm.

Kindof makes Steam feel "Generic" and like it doesn't stand out from the crowd.

The login screen was hawt though.

While I like the looks it feels too much like a clone of some other interfaces I've seen before.

I very much like the current original SteamOS design and if anything I would like to see it still used for future improvements.

to be honest i prefer the horizontal coverflow view of current bigpicture mode over this. somehow it looks both more elegant & natural on a widescreen. the design of cale lares on the other hand doesnt tell me in what direction i can scroll in the coverscreen to browse games and it also kinda puzzles me how to jump between menus and options with a controller in mind.

Well, they could add a page for SteamOS themes in Steam and not just some color change like PS or whatever is on Xbox.

Nope. Too PSn on it. Didnt like it in PS4, and I will not like it in a PC! Though I only BigPic here!

No, not a fan of it. he also did a normal steam window redesign, and I dont like it either.

Just removing options, and making it look this way easier on the eyes is simple, but steam was always more about features than design.

That first opening screen and the login screen looks so amazing. However not a fan of the audio

Since Valve has gone for more open source these days with SteamOS, I think that an excellent addition to it (including BigPicture mode) would be to add custom theme support just like XBMC has done it.
I'm not saying that it would be essential, far from it, however it would be a nice touch in the long run to see some great user-created styles. :)

I think Big Picture Mode looks great! Distinct style while still being intuitive and strangely familiar.

This interface is totally crap, I can't understand why you like it.

Agreed, this interface simply does not work. It hardly exposes any of the Steam features, like categories, favorites, gamepad friendly icon (minor, but useful), etc.. I also cannot see how the gamepad input feature would fit with that chat interface.

To put my initial thoughts into words; it's a simplistic media center! Why would I ever want to expose my huge game list in such a space craving, hard to find, format. To be frank, that format even has its problems when you have a big movie collection, but at least there genres are easier to implement.

In the interest of fairness, I might as well add the single issue I have with the real Big Picture Mode. The way the return/back command works can be a bit confusing to some. I imagine it as return to a higher tier menu, but in reality it is return to last viewed page. It should not matter too much though, just me wired another way.

I'm afraid you'll have to add me to the list of people that this doesn't appeal to, BUT on the other hand I applaud the effort that went into it. :)

I think it's great to show that a lot of people would be interested in changing the theme of SteamOS/BPM. Ideally, I think things could really shine if Valve made an API for the Steam client that would allow themers to basically build their own interface from the ground up. While a lot of people here in this thread seem not to like this particular PSN-ish skin, I think what we should take away from this is that Linux is about choice. That's why we're all here. If Valve/SteamOS can become the Google/Android of gaming, then we're all in for a wild ride!