Xbox Cloud Gaming’s new design teases the way forward for Xbox console UI

Microsoft has started testing a refreshed internet expertise for Xbox Cloud Gaming that appears much more console-like. Xbox Insiders can now check out the preview UI, which incorporates up to date navigation options, loads of new animations, and a refreshed design. It all seems like a teaser of what’s to come back for Xbox consoles within the years forward.

The current Xbox Cloud Gaming interface bought its final main overhaul almost two years in the past, when Microsoft added the social options and UI you’d usually discover within the Xbox dashboard. This new design makes that current UI really feel even nearer to an Xbox console, due to a wide range of new animations, a brand new library part, and a rounded design.

New animations embody a sliding dashboard interface that glides into view, an animated Xbox icon that lights up and modifications form, and improved navigation between the totally different elements of the dashboard. These delicate modifications tremendously enhance the Xbox Cloud Gaming navigation expertise, which at the moment seems like an online app loading every part.

“We’re testing a refreshed web experience for Xbox Cloud Gaming that lays the foundation for accelerating our ability to build new experiences for players,” says Patrick Siu, principal product supervisor at Xbox. “This preview is a first look at our new web interface on your browser and lets you try the updated design and product flow before it is rolled out broadly.”

The point out of this new UI being the inspiration for “new experiences” definitely seems like Microsoft might effectively use this new design in a future Xbox console. In the meantime, I’m hoping it additionally takes this interface and places it contained in the Xbox app on PC, which is in a lot want of navigation and animation enhancements.

Microsoft is on the lookout for suggestions on this new Xbox Cloud Gaming UI, earlier than it rolls it out to everybody within the coming months. If you wish to strive it out you possibly can head to the brand new web site and allow the preview options toggle from the settings menu.