The Time When Lady Gaga Told YouTube to Keep its UX “Shitty”

Lady Gaga wears a shocking disguise to attend the YouTube Music Awards on November 3, 2013 in New York City | Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for YouTube

A few years back one of YouTube’s product leads was giving Lady Gaga a private look at some of our proposed UX revisions (this was when Gaga visited Google to be interviewed by Marissa). The team has mocked up design explorations in different directions including a few that were “premium” style looks. The minute Gaga saw that one she stopped our product managers and said, “No, keep…