Xbox UI Portfolio Site

https://gabrielcabrera.co/

by valgaze • 5 months ago

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written-beyond• 5 months ago

Man you really nostalgia pilled me. It's lovely and a work of art.

What's the deal with the audio delay showing up for button taps until the icons have loaded?

hereonout2• 5 months ago

Others getting nostalgia over the Xbox 360 reminds me how old I am!

pjmlp2• 5 months ago

I just bought this the other day, https://www.retro-gamer.de/shop/heft/retro-gamer-2-26-einzel...

The Xbox 360 is now considered a retro gaming device, that was such a reminder how old I am now, to note my first home computer was a Timex 2068.

ErneX• 5 months ago

Best Xbox console. It had pretty good games. Sad they were unable to keep that momentum going and are basically nope’ing from the console business altogether now.

lloeki• 5 months ago

Now for an additional kickback: nostalgia induced here is about the NXE, but it famously displaced the original Blades dashboard.

sjdonado• 5 months ago

Sick

johanvts2• 5 months ago

Is there any chance the music section is legal? I would love to be able to put songs on my own pages, but I assumed it would be a legal issue? Is there a way to license songs at a reasonable price.

jagged-chisel3• 5 months ago

There's definitely a chance. Start with something like this: https://pixabay.com/music/

johanvts2• 5 months ago

Thanks, but that’s royalty free music which is not an issue.

khat• 5 months ago

If he has the license then yea it's legal. Chances are if he's posted it publicly he has the rights. Also for a low level personal website that's not going to get a lot of traffic and only hosting 3 songs they probably gave him a license for free.

georgemcbay• 5 months ago

If he has the license then yea it's legal. Chances are if he's posted it publicly he has the rights. Also for a low level personal website that's not going to get a lot of traffic and only hosting 3 songs they probably gave him a license for free.

Incredibly unlikely.

"Dance Yrself Clean" is owned by Warner Music Group, "Come On Eileen" is owned by Universal Music Group.

Both are highly litigious, extremely rights-protective and not in the habit of licensing music for free.

It is far more likely the person who put the site up just YOLO'd it and is hoping they never notice.

Xarovin• 5 months ago

Ha that's great. I enjoyed the old Youtube.

nnevatie• 5 months ago

Introduces a lot of lag on the mouse pointer.

kilpikaarna• 5 months ago

Anyone know what the music visualizer is?

It's certainly not the real one[0], but looks a lot like the Winamp AVS/MilkDrop stuff. My Inspect Element -fu was however insufficient for getting a closer look.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_(music_visualization)

m132• 5 months ago

Judging from the code, it's most likely Butterchurn or some fork.

https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn

Triphibian• 5 months ago

Didn't Jeff Minter do the Xbox visualizer?

designerarvid• 5 months ago

Very nice. Still I was hoping for the original XBox UI.

Affric• 5 months ago

Likewise. The second 360 UI is great but the earlier ones they did just have a real old school vibe.

ucyo• 5 months ago

Fun fact: On the lower right corner there is the Xbox logo emitting waves to an imaginary surface below. The pattern is a watermark for the serial number of the device to be identified in case of leaked footage. Only during development of Xbox.

jagged-chisel3• 5 months ago

And what does the pattern on this site decode to? Maybe some nifty easter egg?

xattt• 5 months ago

It can probably be decoded with some Dungeons and Dragons-level incantation of ffmpeg.

DaanDL• 5 months ago

Bonus points for including Lcd Soundsystem

sylens• 5 months ago

Was really hoping this was going to be the Blades interface

Lammy2• 5 months ago

Ironically I like Blades a lot more on OG XBOX (the JX720 theme for XBMC). Its 360 iteration got really crowded when MS added the Live blade and all the ad units. The NXE (what this site emulates) was Peak 360 IMO :)

Jerrrrrrrry• 5 months ago

White NXE burning our eyes for the first time, I remember it like yesterday.

butlike3• 5 months ago

It's cool, but I don't really see a portfolio on the portfolio site.

burkaman• 5 months ago

You have to click Projects in the top left.

personality1• 5 months ago

Last week I was thinking exactly about how I missed the old xbox interface. "Would be cool" I thought, to build a modern web UI nowadays.

Now, I see this :)

rand9958• 5 months ago

Wish you would've implemented the gamepad api

lostmsu• 5 months ago

In FF on Linux using mouse scroll between tiles is overclocked.

eezing• 5 months ago

Awesome

bsimpson• 5 months ago

The WebGL renderer won't initialize on my iMac Pro.

icwtyjj• 5 months ago

"Florida Man Arrested for Hanging on Traffic Light and Sh*tting on Cars Passing Underneath"?? (In picture library)

It seems the whole story is a hoax and his faced is photoshopped in but definitely interesting choice of things to put on your portfolio.

malicka• 5 months ago

The first gimmick portfolio I’ve been genuinely impressed by. Beautiful, authentic and actually usable. The scanlines effect is chique, sound-effects on-point, and it is internally consistent in a way most of these sorts of portfolios aren’t. Very cute! :D

jaybyrd• 5 months ago

as someone who has used all 3 dashboards (blades NXE and Metro) this one has to be the best. the netflix parties have to make it number 1

Jotalea• 5 months ago

I was expecting to encounter the metro UI, so I got a pleasant surprise when I saw the 360's UI.

theflyestpilot• 5 months ago

you are awesome.

I was thinking about creating a mw2 multiplayer lobby resume. Doing the whole.Create a class thing for job history. absolutely admire this. well done!

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