Pretty much I came up with the idea of an old-time jukebox, which shows a few songs on each page with a little information about each, and started from there. The system would be fully interactive, and I used (read: stole) a lot of ideas from current gen touch screen phones and displays that have already been proven to work. This means that to turn between pages you actually pull the page from right to left as you would a book page, just sliding your hand across the screen. The only clickables would be the movie cover and the buttons for "more info" and "rent" below that, so there is no fear of losing the current screen.
I also went with the idea of multiple search types. As you can see, I started with just the two, basic and advances, but then added another one I had been thinking about that is a little more social-driven, and that is a quick pick of the past 10 movies both rented and returned, along with the ratings they have been given, no further info. The advanced search gives the main fields (as I would consider them) to search by, but the screen returned gives information that is much easier to search by, such as ratings and names. This screen is scrollable much like Adobe Reader or the iPhone, where the user would just drag the page up to scroll along, as, once again, the only things that are clickable are the buttons to search by on top and the links on the left.
The fun feature I added to this was the ability to actually watch the cinematic trailer for the movie as would appear in the theaters, only a small kiosk-screen-sized version, just in case the person would like to have a small sample of the movie they are about to rent. This screen also gives more indepth info, such as bit-actors, cameos, awards won, etc, that cannot be seen on the main screen because of the clutter it would cause.
I am espcially proud of the checkout screen, once again borrowed (stolen) from online shopping stores, where the user is able to see and compare all items in their cart, as well as remove an item or return to shopping. The user can still click on the item for a more in depth description and return to the checkout whenever they want.
The return movie is a simple rating's page. Once return movie is selected, the user would be prompted to insert the movie (screen not shown) and then when the movie has been scanned in the user is prompted to rate it using a sliding ratings scale. This can be skipped if the user chooses, but if they do rate the movie then the movie's rating will be updated online and will effect it's overall rating within the rental system.
-Sean Lander
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