The 2024 system buries everything under one Media section, split by tabs. The redesign promotes each content type to the top bar, so passengers move sideways between films, food, articles and the map without going Home first. It also adds system-wide Search.
At a glance
Top-bar destinations
1→7
One Media section becomes seven distinct destinations.
Lateral content jumps
0→∞
Move between any two destinations without routing through Home.
System-wide search
No→Yes
Search at the bar, across content types rather than within one tab.
2024 baseline
Inside Media: content split by tabsTabs share one space
Movies
TV
Audio
Games
Magazine
Featured film
New release
Drama
Action
Comedy
Family
Foreign
Classic
+ scroll for more
Tabs separate content in name only. There's no cross-tab search, and no way back from Audio to Movies without returning to the Media root.
Everything lives inside one section. Reaching Food, Flight Info or anything else means backing out to Home first, and discovery is scroll-driven inside each tab with no search to bridge them.
Redesign
Persistent top bar
GSearch
GHome
01Articles
02Movies
03Food & Drinks
04Flight Map
05More ▾
Inside More: secondary content & utilitiesIntentional drawer
Audio
Documentaries
Mini Games
Magazine
World Clock
Aircraft Info
Cabin Crew Assistance
Each top-bar item is its own destination. A passenger watching a film can jump straight to the map, then articles, then food, with no return to Home in between. Search at the bar handles discovery without picking a section first, and More stays as a deliberate drawer for secondary items.
What changed and why
01 · Unbundle Media
Each content type becomes its own destination
Films, articles, the map and food all sit at the top bar. Peer-level navigation replaces the tabs-inside-Media model, so Media is no longer needed as a parent.
02 · Enable lateral jumps
No more return to Home between sections
The left bar persists everywhere, so any destination is one tap from any other. My journey map showed passengers needing the flight map across most of the flight, so surfacing it cuts the most repeated step.
03 · Search at the system level
Discovery without committing to a section
Search lives at the bar, not inside Media, so a specific Icelandic film, a podcast or an article is findable without choosing a content type first.