It looks and feels fucking awful. I use that quick menu and pins, but it's still shit.
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The Xbox One Dashboard is a Complete Mess
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It looks and feels fucking awful. I use that quick menu and pins, but it's still shit.
One thing I've learnt is if you have been using an os for 4 years you start using a new os or dashboard for around a month, you don't have a great experience.
You will get used to it. I use my Xbox more than my ps4 and I actually have no issue with either and I think they both have flaws.
You will get used to it. I use my Xbox more than my ps4 and I actually have no issue with either and I think they both have flaws.
Yeah, it's surprisingly bad. I bought an XB1X on Black Friday and coming from a PS4 Pro the Dashboard is so sluggish and unintuitive. I love everything else about the console, but it can be a real chore to get around that UI.
Giving the option to default boot to the guide and hide the rest of the crap would be a start. Or at least boot to my games list, because that's what I want to actually do with a console.
If it rattles you so much knowing some people think it's rubbish, I suggest you just don't bother reading the thread.
Yeah to me it has even managed to be shittier that the Wii U one, which is not something to be proud of. Plus I think Microsoft has always made great UI (I even liked Metro in Windows 8), this make this even more sad...
Coming from the Switch it is always really painful to navigate. If only they put a toggle to hide all the BS I don't care about and just have my games icons on one page...
Coming from the Switch it is always really painful to navigate. If only they put a toggle to hide all the BS I don't care about and just have my games icons on one page...
Yep reading the thread and it's definitely people who have purchased within the last month who are used to an os they've used for years struggling with a new os.
Give an iPhone user android and it would be the same, and visa versa.
A mac os user windows etc.
I suppose it is all valid but also important to accept this point.
Give an iPhone user android and it would be the same, and visa versa.
A mac os user windows etc.
I suppose it is all valid but also important to accept this point.
I'm not struggling with it, but thanks for the condescension.
I've had my Xbox One for years at this point and even though I know where everything is and how to use it, I still have the opinion that it's a terrible ui.
I've had mine since launch, it's always been bad. Hell, a few different gaming outlet comparisons where random staff members and editors etc were asked which UI's they preferred early into the gen, said similar things about the Xbox UI, that it seemed comparatively slow and unintuitive. At launch and soon after, the discreoency was actually far worse than it is now. The Xbox UI was even slower, and the install times etc were a big point of contention early on (they still are).
This is why I can't take a lot of these posts seriously because a lot of you sound like you haven't even actually seen the UI. It literally says how to take a screenshot if you just press the home button and then it gives you a notification on how to access it. Then if you want to look at it again the guide has an entire section dedicated to captures. Jesus Christ, people.
It's the best console UI ever. One of the things I miss the most since switching to PS4. I enjoyed having a reliable and fast guide, I like that games and apps are treated the same on the home page, not having to sync my achievements or spend minutes trying to find settings in places they shouldn't be.
Lol. they are obviously not used to it. It's very easy to navigate the dashboard imo.this thread again...
i don't get it, is this really that hard?
c'mon it's the first thing you see when you press the guide button
What's up with the name calling?
this thread again...
i don't get it, is this really that hard?
c'mon it's the first thing you see when you press the guide button
This only works if you actually have recent captures though. That's why as I mentioned earlier, I often take a random screenshot just to get into the screenshots app. That seems the quickest way to get into the screenshots app via the quick menu recent screenshots tab, though going through and loading screenshots is still extremely slow. If you don't use this recent screenshots method, it's difficult and cumbersome to get to them otherwise, and the GameDVR app doesn't seem to load them and instead loads recorded videos only.
Edit: Just noted there is a see all tab in the bottom that takes you to captures even if you have no recent ones, don't know if this is a recent addition, but I'd not noticed that prior, so this is a great extra. Still doesn't change the speed and limitations of using the captures app or gallery though (viewing and uploading images etc).
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As a huge fan of Xbox I sort of agree.
It really isn't all that quick, especially when you've just turned the console on from a cold boot. I'd love it they offered a simple mode option that favours speed of use over aesthetics, perhaps without picture icons and a simple list browser In the game store.
It really isn't all that quick, especially when you've just turned the console on from a cold boot. I'd love it they offered a simple mode option that favours speed of use over aesthetics, perhaps without picture icons and a simple list browser In the game store.
The mini menu by pressing the Xbox button is cool.. Rest of the UI is kinda garbo and it gets stupidly slow at times.
Interesting. I experienced an adjustment period for literally every new interface I've ever used. Each iteration of the Xbox One interface seemed somewhat confusing at first, but it's hardly the only "bad user interface", by your definition.
Going from Android to Windows Phone required adjustment. Going back to a newer version of Android required adjustment again, and a couple of years later I still don't like it.
Going from Xbox 360 to PS3 - adjustment, and I still don't like the way that so many things are nested under just several icons, often seemingly at random, and sometimes duplicated in multiple places.
Getting a 3DS a month ago also required adjustment, and that's as simple and feature-starved as it gets. Why does going back a step sometimes work using the B button, and at other times you need to use the touch screen? Why is the virtual back button, a function that is used so often, on the left side of the screen when it would be easier to reach on the right?
Even going from Windows XP to Mac OS X back in the day left me scratching my head. The then-current version of iTunes in particluar, I couldn't figure out the logic behind it for the life of me.
Also within the games - why is the topmost face button so often used for the menu functionality in JRPGs, when intuitively I'd always reach for the start/menu button first, select/view second?
I could find reasons to complain about almost every user interface out there, but instead of bitching I take a couple of hours to learn it, and get over it.
It's funny cause I feel the complete opposite! Hate PS4 dashboard, can't find things. Have you tried to use the guide to learn how it works? The console explain everything at the first launch.
I think the best user interface was probably the Xbox 360's. I agree the Xbox One, even after so many redesigns, is still very strange and confusing, but once you learn the ropes you can at least go to your applications real quick, something I can't say for PS4 (Netflix, YouTube or any of the "TV" applications are a pain to navigate to)
I just find it sluggish and slow. The main problem is that it's all relying on the internet and everything is updated on the go.
I go to my app/ games section and would have to wait for game pass, ea access etc to load, I go to the store and it takes an awful long time to load everything or would freeze and crash.
As someone else said, it doesn't help we can't hide/ disable stuff we are just not interested in either.
Unless I know I will be downloading something remotely or and update/ patch is coming out, the Xbox is set to fully turn off instead of instant.
The fresh start helps a bit with the quickness of the os.
Also the slow download speeds are another nightmare.
I have a 300mb line and the PS4 usually downloads in that region as well as all my other devices. The Xbox always goes up and down but mainly settles on average around 80-100.
I go to my app/ games section and would have to wait for game pass, ea access etc to load, I go to the store and it takes an awful long time to load everything or would freeze and crash.
As someone else said, it doesn't help we can't hide/ disable stuff we are just not interested in either.
Unless I know I will be downloading something remotely or and update/ patch is coming out, the Xbox is set to fully turn off instead of instant.
The fresh start helps a bit with the quickness of the os.
Also the slow download speeds are another nightmare.
I have a 300mb line and the PS4 usually downloads in that region as well as all my other devices. The Xbox always goes up and down but mainly settles on average around 80-100.
Hardly a MS defender - my favorite games this generation are PS4 titles (avatar should be a giveaway). But we're asking for people to show us their experience because while variance in performance is possible, it's most likely being exaggerated. The video shown in a previous post still doesn't show the speed of the guide on that user's console.
I find the guide super useful to do any task I need to while currently in-game, while the PS4 quick menu is slow to load for me when I'm trying to invite friends to a party while playing Battlefield V. My biggest issue with my One X is that slight stutter I get when an achievement pops for some games lately (Ashen being the big one).
How do I turn the UI volume down? I use headphones and the achievement notification sounds like the end of the world.
It's pretty much the same as the Xbox 360 guide.
If you can't navigate an Xbox One console in 2018, how do those people even go through the Settings on an Android phone?
I still have nightmares from the Metro UI/UX.
Can't say that I'm happy with the Xbox One UI/UX, either. The guide is so annoying with everything taking an extra button press and it opening a new window in every step.
I can understand why the Xbox One UI can be confusing when you have both the dashboard and the guide. Two entry points where you can access content. Some stuff can only be accessed through the dashboard, some only via the guide.
If they want to make it easier to use, they should merge the two.
If they want to make it easier to use, they should merge the two.
I think its simply a case of people coming from a different console and then being like
Different = crap.
no, it's not. If one UI feels and controls better than the other, this is the whole reason.
The Xbox UI is slow, laggy and hard to understand. This is especially weird, as the X is such a powerhouse.
I use all sorts of systems privately and at work (I'm a developer), but I really needed some time to understand what this OS wants me to do. I also gave up on some features like pinned games. They always show up at the very bottom of my dashboard...
First improvement for me would be another tab on the dashboard/homescreen instead of the fucking Mixer thing where I see my games. How this is found in a separate UI, that has to load first, on a gaming console, is beyond my understanding.
It works whenever...
You literally click "See all" once the Recent Captures guide pops up and it takes you to "Manage Captures" where you can choose to see stuff on Xbox LIVE, on YOUR Xbox or what's Uploading...
The hyperbole in this thread is crazy. Lol.
There is nothing hard or confusing about the Dashboard lol
But at least the offline status works for you.
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There's a solution for this: try using the Wii U interface for a couple of days, and then go back to your Xbox One. It will feel lightning fast ^^
You can get to apps and games quicker on X1, so you must think other systems are very very slow.
What part are you finding slow?
To get to a game u can have it on your pins or go to "my games and apps" which is the first think on the home screen.
Once your in a game, it's practically instant going to other apps and games, you just press the xbox button and your recent apps are right there or "your games and apps is a movement of the analogue stick and a button press away.
How is that slow or difficult?
i feel like every time this sort of thing comes up it would easily be solved if you actually tried to use it properly. it is not hard at all. if you still struggle with the guide just use pins which can literally be anything you want so there's literally no excuse for finding it hard other than laziness in not setting up your pins.
Having a UI that has way more features and takes time to learn does not make it shit.
If Guide has everything, why even have a dashboard at all?
If you have to take time to learn how to use a user interface then yeah, it pretty much makes it that.
Looking at screenshots in this thread it looks like there are ads even in quick(guide) menu.
Apart from slowness while loading the one thing that annoys me is that you can't just show every game in a grid in the home menu. I don't want to manage pins to do that. I just want to be there.
The guide is totally functional and a fast way to access stuff but when simply launching a game from the home menu it shouldn't be needed.
Edit: the dashboard is totally useless to me unless I launch a game I've recently played.
The guide is totally functional and a fast way to access stuff but when simply launching a game from the home menu it shouldn't be needed.
Edit: the dashboard is totally useless to me unless I launch a game I've recently played.
Having used both PS4 and Xbox His, I have to say the current dash is far better. My 10 year old nephew flies through it no problem as well. Seems pretty snappy and intuitive to me.
The guide works well but the dash itself feels like its only there to show me ads for services I'm already subscribed to. I am pleased they let you customise your dash in theory but the vast majority of stuff is not useful. It's all pretty overdesigned.
Why would you want all your games cluttering the home screen?
It is also literally one button press to a very organised games and apps section where you can see all your games and filter them if you want.
What infuriates me is that the last used apps also include stuff like Microsoft Store and Xbox Accessories or Avatars. I don't care about that, most of the time, I launch those by accident because some section of settings is a separate app (which is a questionable design choice on it's own) and I don't want to see them on my dashboard.
isn't the guide like a popup side menu that takes up 1/3 of the screen?
seems like the main fullscreened UI is kind of indefensible if everyone just says you should use that
seems like the main fullscreened UI is kind of indefensible if everyone just says you should use that
Everything takes time to load, even my list of games is a spinner for some seconds. The Dashboard takes like 20 seconds before I see everything.
Placing all my games, the main reason I bought a gaming console, behind a button as big as the ad beside it, is just ridiculous. At least give me the option to have my games on the first tab, not in the settings or what it's called.
Whatever I do on my PS4 is instant. On the X many actions needs time and have a slight delay.
Well, I still prefer it over my PS4 though, wonderful machine otherwise.