Kiosk Design

My design doesn't depart significantly from the Red Box design, but I think it has some important changes. 

I've spent all day tweaking the UI on my computer (KDE 4.1 with Compiz), so this design might be influenced by that a little bit.  I had to remind myself that kiosks don't usually have graphics cards, so it probably can't have drag and drop and it definitely can't have a dynamically updated recommendation cloud. 

Now I've heard some talk about putting the info for a movie on the same page as the browsing so you don't have to click back and forth, and I'm not sure I'm quite down with that.  I'm the sort of user what likes to maximize everything, so I don't really want to compromise on space.  That said, you don't need the whole space for browsing; sacrificing the sides for sidebars works great.

One neat thing that my prototype has that doesn't quite get across in a static model is how the panel on the left shifts every ten seconds between Genres, Recommendations, Most Popular, and Discounted.  If the user interacts with any one of them, it stays there, and they can change it up at the top.

The only concern I have with this design is that users may potentially log in and then forget to log out.  I tried to make the fact that they were logged in unnecessarily salient, but I'm not sure what else can be done about it.