200 kb…
200 KB…
0,2 fucking MB!
Nintendo shares insight into the creation of the Switch’s operating system (design takes up less than 200KB)
– Switch’s OS concept was to make something easy to use & light
– Nintendo focused on the sound effects & animation with Switch OS, but didn’t include background music to keep things quick
– Nintendo wanted the OS to feel ‘comfortable,’ and made a great effort to cut out elements that lead to discomfort
– text is sometimes better than icons, as some icons may leave players/users puzzled upon first glance
– one goal was to cut the amount of actions a player needed to take in order to achieve the results they want
– when choosing options on the menu, ‘Yes’ was left as the default option in order to speed up interactions
– menu animations were kept short and snappy, and were put in place to help the user navigate
– Switch’s home menu design resources take up less than 200KB
– Nintendo sees the process of using the an OS as players making a selection, confirming it, and then waiting for results
– the NES was used as a reference when creating the OS, as the NES let players jump into a game right away
– sound effects were carefully chosen/timed to go with on-screen actions to help make navigation easier/more impactful
– virtual button layout for the OS was chosen based on where users would expect the cursor to move next
– Nintendo wanted to separate games from non-games on the OS, and adjusted size/color/density on-screen
– Nintendo liked the to-to-bottom approach, and wanted the screen to be as uncrowded as possible
– another goal was to not only make an OS that both appeared easy to use, and functioned as such
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