Suggestion: Friends List UI needs to be updated...

If anything, they may do the same thing they did with the Xbox 360, where they updated the UI through out the years. I am hoping they update the UI at a much quicker rate to meet user expectation.

Im in total agreement. Especially with what you say about avatars.

It seems that the avatar app is pointless. Im assuming they only exist now to be used in future games. I think the friends list now is nowhere near as good as the 360s. Avatars on the 360 sort of personalised gamer profiles by adding faces(although simulated)
to the names.

While feedback is welcomed and appreciated this is the wrong place to leave it. Use the feedback forums

forums.xbox.com/.../default.aspx

I did a Youtube video a few of me playing Kinect Sports Rivals earlier this week. In the video, I tried to load friends list to show off Kinect Voice Commands. "it may be a problem on our end" "unable to load your friends". It would kind of be embarrassing
for the world to see Microsoft unable to load a simple feature on the Dashboard ;D I have open NAT so peps don't say I have crap internet because it's an issue on Microsofts end. They really need to improve the UI. It acts like it wants to be more of a Windows
8 UI than an Xbox UI. Xbox 360's current UI is the role model, it takes less time on that UI to load friends list, achievements, and messages, with the controller, than it does for Xbox 1's UI. And yes I did a comparison video of that on my YT channel too.

It also changed the Game DVR option to Upload.