Longtime Xbox fans will recognize the Blades as the Xbox 360’s original dashboard whenever it launched in November 2005. A skilled Xbox fan developed a mock promo displaying a redesigned interface as well as a wide range of custom themes, including the one based on the Xbox 360’s Blades UI.
In 2008, Xbox replaced this same Blades with such a new Dashboard, but many fans still remember the classic design fondly. It’s still popular today, and many fans have imagined what such a Blades-inspired Xbox Series X or Game Pass Dashboard will indeed look like.
Zenkai Goose, a YouTuber, recently shared a mockup of his Xbox Dashboard on Reddit. The 33-second video, set to music, appears to be an advertisement for the brand-new user interface. The video shows the newly designed Dashboard, which has a background image and displays the user’s five favourite or most recent games across the bottom. Furthermore, three small icons provide quick and easy access to a Microsoft Store, the search function, the options menu, as well as messages.
The Quick Actions menu is accessed by pressing Left on the D-pad. This includes the Xbox Series X’s friend list, news, progess and achievement progress and shutdown and restart functions. Right on the D-pad activates Game Pass, while Up displays all notifications. Finally, pressing the Down button shows the user’s Games and Apps.
In furthermore to the Blades-inspired design, Zenkai Goose’s themes included perspectives predicated on Fallout, Call of Duty, Redfall, as well as Bethesda’s upcoming RPG Starfield. The majority are simply different background images, with the exception of the Blades Theme, which appears to contain additional interactive elements.
This theme maintains Zenkai Goose’s basic design but adds a box for the user’s Xbox Profile. It also relocates the message notifications beneath the Profile and adds a Marketplace button in the place where the 360 UI previously displayed Achievements and Gamerscore. The Blades Theme also includes Rapid Actions, the Games and Apps, and Game Pass tabs, but there is no Notifications tab.
This is Zenkai Goose’s second attempt at redesigning this same Xbox Dashboard, and while he is not the only fan of the Xbox 360 Blades UI, his current design has proven divisive just on Xbox, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X comment threads. Some criticised Zenkai Goose’s design, claiming that while it was visually appealing, this same small buttons will indeed make it difficult to use in practise. Others, however, pointed out that the PS5 has similar sized buttons with really no issues.
Xbox fans on Reddit also were divided about the design’s use of space. Some fans preferred to see the background, whereas others thought Zenkai Goose left too much empty space. Finally, it appears that everyone has their own suggestions for enhancing the Xbox Series X and Series S Dashboard, but no one can agree on the main issues.
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