The New Xbox One Experience will update the Xbox One User Interface with a host of new features. It is currently in Preview for those who have signed up for the Preview Program. The new interface is focused on social experiences with an Xbox One Dashboard redesign focused on Speed, Ease of Use & built upon fan feedback.
Here is a video of the New Xbox Experience in action.
New Xbox One Experience DashBoard Redesign Details:
A Redesigned Home to Help You Truly Jump In
While keeping the main section concentrated on your task at hand (say, getting back to playing Gears of War: Ultimate Edition), we’re introducing vertical scrolling and a rearranged interface to provide faster and easier access to your most-recently accessed games and apps. You can also easily share your achievements and clips with the Xbox Live community, see whether your friends are playing the same games, and enjoy one-click access to Game Hubs to get news and updates from the publishers themselves. Engaging socially on Xbox One just got a lot quicker.
Quickly Jump to Pins, My Games & Apps
At the bottom of Home, you’ll have quick access to the games and apps that you have pinned. You can quickly jump between your pins and most recently played game by using the triggers on your controller. Right trigger will take you straight to your pins. A pull of the left trigger will take you back to your most recently played game or app.
A New Guide for Fast Access to Essentials
A new Guide lets you quickly access essentials with just one button press, and without leaving your game, to save time spent weaving in and out of apps. You can access the Guide from Home by pressing left or double tap the Xbox button on your controller to instantly overlay the Guide.
Friends & Parties
See which of your friends are online, join their parties, or click a button to instantly start a party and then add friends to it.
Notifications
Instead of having to go back to Home to launch the Notifications Center full screen, new notifications will show up directly in the Guide and be grouped to make them quicker and easier to navigate.
Messages
Just like notifications, multiple messages from a given friend will be both quickly accessible from the guide and neatly grouped.
Settings
Frequently-accessed settings like headset volume will be up-leveled in the settings section of the guide to make them quicker to get to in the guide while you are playing a game.
Snap
You now access your snap apps from the guide. In addition, apps snap to the left instead of the right.
OneGuide is Your Single Destination for TV, Movies, and Video Apps
Anchored to the right of Home, OneGuide is the place to quickly and easily see what’s trending on live TV and what’s new to stream across your favorite apps. With the new OneGuide, you’ll spend less time browsing and more time watching.
Live TV
Keeping with our focus on speed, OneGuide’s TV listings come up instantly and in full-screen, showing more channels at once. We also added picture-in-picture mode for TV, so you can browse OneGuide without missing what’s happening in your show.
Movies & TV Shows
Explore more movies and TV shows with dedicated galleries, highlighting the best that Xbox has to offer from live TV and apps.
App Channels
Discover new things to watch through curated channels of streaming video from apps like Hulu and Fox Now. Accessible from the dashboard and throughout OneGuide, app channels help you find what to watch faster.
A New Easier to Navigate Store
To the right of OneGuide, the new and improved Store features…
Four Easy to Access Areas
Games, Movies and TV, Apps, and Music will have more real estate on the main Store page dedicated to surfacing top content to you.
New Vertical Gallery View
Using Games as an example, the all-new vertical gallery view within each area affords more listings to be showcased at a glance and the listings themselves are optimized for easier browsing with intuitive categories like Featured Staff Picks, New Releases, Top Played, Top Rated, Coming Soon and Recommendations.
“With the New Xbox One Experience, we’re optimizing our design and layouts for speed, which means changes to the existing UI and features. Inspired by fan feedback and usage data, we’ve made your experience more intuitive by reducing button-presses, jumps and load times.”
A few examples of how we’re doing this are:
Game Hubs
With more entry points throughout the new experience, the new Game Hubs provide similar content as the current Game Hubs but by changing the design we have improved discoverability and speed.
Game DVR
You’ll now go to the Game DVR app, instead of the Upload app, to manage your clips and screenshots.
Achievements
Your game progress can be viewed on your profile and you’ll find Achievements in the Game Hub for each game. If you want to track achievement progress in real time while you are playing, you can do that by snapping the Achievement Tracker app.
This first preview wave is just the beginning of delivering the New Xbox One Experience and Xbox One Backward Compatibility this Fall 2015.
“Between now and November, we look forward to taking Xbox One Preview Program members along the journey with us, rolling out new builds to preview and soliciting your feedback with the end goal of releasing the New Xbox One experience that you’ve been asking for. We’ll have more to share in the coming weeks, so please stay tuned and keep the feedback coming!”