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Xbox Console History Museum2022
Designing the Xbox One room for an Xbox exhibit in New York
An interactive museum invited visitors to explore two decades of Xbox console history. I designed the Xbox One interface within a larger team, adapting a familiar console language to an exhibit about its hardware, games, and platform.
- Shipped
- Interactive design
- Brand systems
- UI design
- Role
- Digital Designer Xbox One exhibit UI
- Timeline
- Jun – Sep 2022
- Team
- Ten Gun Design Designers, Project Manager, Developers, QA
- Platform
- Interactive exhibit
- Tools
- Figma, Adobe After Effects, Photoshop
01At a glance
I contributed the Xbox One interface as a digital designer at TenGunDesign. The wider project involved designers, developers, a project manager, and QA; my scope was part of the larger console-history experience.
02ContextA console interface in a museum setting.
The experience let visitors explore console history through interactive displays. It needed to feel recognizably Xbox while helping people browse historical content, not do the everyday tasks of a console dashboard.
I had not used Xbox consoles before this project. Learning the interface patterns and brand language quickly was a big part of the job.
03Design directionLearning the system before adapting it.
I studied the console’s layout patterns, content blocks, motion, and tone, then worked with experienced teammates to align my designs with the established Xbox language.
The design needed a clear hierarchy between the entry screen and deeper content. Familiar grids and shared content patterns became the foundation for the exhibit pages.
04SolutionExploring launch, hardware, games, and platform.
The Xbox One screens organized historical material into related topics. The entry screen established the navigation, while deeper screens combined imagery and content within a consistent grid.
My intention was to make moving between topics feel familiar, so the interface supported exploration without competing with the exhibit itself.
05Review & QAReviewing interaction and display readability.
The team reviewed interaction through a keyboard-based console simulator shared with team members and QA. A large office display supported reviews of the interface’s visual presentation.
06OutcomeA contribution to the exhibit.
The completed interface brought the Xbox One portion of the console-history experience into the larger exhibit. I learned to pick up an unfamiliar design system quickly and work within it on a multidisciplinary team.