- Max moves its top navigation menu to the side.
- It also adds two new ways for you to find content to stream.
- The design change is starting to roll out slowly now to TVs.
If you have opened Max app On your TV and noticed that the top navigation bar is, yes, no longer at the top, you don’t see things. It is part of a redesigned navigation menu that the streaming service begins to roll out after a successful test in Latin America.
This change only arrives at TVs – so smart interfaces or a streaming box like Roku Ultra or Apple TV 4K – not to the web interface or mobile apps.
Where did your lightweight navigation go to HBO? I mean we all need our Larry David Fix with permission from Curb your enthusiasm. Where did sports, news and series go? Well, not so far as it is now in a new menu bar on the left side of the screen. And with that, Max offers new ways to find curated content.
Two new submenus, what’s new and categories, sign up for the existing series, movies, HBO, Sports and News Sub-Menus. These submenus aim to make it easier to serve content recommendations and find something to stream. Both of these are typical tasks after streamers as different services try new ways to make you consume content faster and more effortlessly.
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What is new is a little more than the name also suggests. Yes, it will serve the latest arrivals at Max, but it will also shine a light on content that arrives in short order, but also – and perhaps more importantly – movies, TV shows and documentaries that will leave. This way you can get one or two more watches of the things you are sorry to see go.
Categories are a little more self -explanatory, but will break down the content of different themes, genres and brands. Either way, both new sections are welcome to adds to the existing existing ones, all to help you find the shows and movies you will watch faster.
Max’s navigation menu, which lives to the left, also cleans up on top of the interface and lets you see the top carousel image with little to no distractions. It can also let Max roll several cinematic top visuals to promote its latest or highlighted content.
This roll -out is also not available for each Max subscriber at once, so don’t hit if you don’t see it yet. It will take some time to reach a subgroup of users first and eventually expand to the full customer base on connected TV devices around the world, and wherever streaming service is available. In a shared release, Max notes that the design can be “easily modified across regions to fit local needs.”
It will be interesting to see the wider user reaction on Max’s navigation menu redesign, whether it will be further fine -tuned and whether other streaming services will implement changes based on these. You may remember that Amazon gave Prime video a great redesign this summer and you can see our early practicalities with this.
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