Early Xbox 360 Dashboards.

[Gunz4Hire]

This is a collection of Data That I know and can find of the Dashboards, The Data I present here is from the Head Designer.

Original Style Concept:

Nino - Worked with Rowbotik to Start Designing Blades.

JDK - Company that did the concept Icons.

AKQA - Company that made the ORIGINAL Blades concept that Microsoft accepted.


The Original Blades Dashboard, to make things smooth, there were gradient covers over the edges. The Timelime was around 5,00 Frames with 80 Layers.

Spoiler: ORIGINAL AKQA DESIGN: Pre - December 2004 (Internal Concept build)

Spoiler: December 2004 Dashboard

Spoiler: February 2005

Spoiler: March 2005

Spoiler: AWESOME BLADE UI SCREENSHOTS

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NXE Early Dashboards:


There was a subset of over 50 Dashboard UI Ideas, here is a very small amount.

Spoiler: Early NXE Dashboards

 

[InsaneNutter]

The blades dashboard the Xbox 360 launched with is my favorite. Later on they added an extra market place tab to the left, it was certainly a useful addition at the time, however I always liked the dash design better without this tab.

The NXE 2008 was also really nice and would be my second favorite dash design. When signed in to Xbox Live i did feel it got cluttered with loads of market place stuff however.