Kiosk Design

       Well, as of right now, my pictures won't load, so I'll paint you a mental image.  My kiosk would start out with 2 simple options, to rent or to return.  Returning just has you drop in your movies, and the machine itself would scan the movies to see who took them out, so I don't have to worry about it.  From the returning screen you can get back to the rental option, or you can just exit if that's all you wanted to do. 
       Once you have clicked the rent button, you are taken to another page where you can log in with your user info (registered users get 17% off all rentals!) or you can just continue as a guest, or something like that, and not get any special user help.  You can also exit.  If you wanted to become a user, I can't decide whether you would register at the machine, or online.  Probably online.
        If you entered in your log-in info, you would be taken to a screen that's very happy and welcoming.  From there, you can go to the movie rental screen.  You can also check what movies you have rented, or add more money to your fun user-only card that you can use to check out movies.  No non-users allowed.
        If you continued as guest (turn to page 75...) you are taken directly to the rental page.

        The rental page consists of five panels.  Two smaller panels on the left contain information like new releases and what people who have rented the movies you are looking at have rented.  The middle panel has the main search function, with different text boxes for info.  You can click little tabs on the sides of the boxes for more info.  Theres a window on the bottom that displays search results.  You can then select a movie and add it, which brings up the fourth window that displays movies in the checkout basket.  You select a movie and then click remove, or you could check out.  The last window displays which movies you currently have checked out, if any.

        The checkout screen just displays what you are checking out, then prompts the user if this is ok or not.  If it is, the user proceeds to the payment menu.  If it's not ok, then the use can go back and change things around.  That's as much as I have so far.  There are a few more things I need to straighten out, but that will get done in later sketches.


-Ben Reback