Click. Then another click. You swipe and button-press through menu after menu to get to your goal: creating a party so that you and your friends can chat while you play some Halo 5 together. Why does it take so much to do something so integral to gaming? It’s like Microsoft wanted you to have an experience akin to the challenge of fighting aliens.
Fans have said that the Xbox One has had a convoluted dashboard system, with core functions buried. With the launch of a redesigned interface, what it calls “The New Xbox One Experience,” the company wants to change that. It starts with simplifying the menu system so users have an easier time.
“We always wanted to reduce the number of steps to at least half. In some cases, we have gone from seven steps to one step,” says Richard Irving, Partner Group Program Manager for Xbox One, who lead the team behind the design and engineering of the core platform shell on the new Xbox One UI, as well as the platform of the original Xbox One UI back in 2012 and 2013.
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