prototype

As I sat down to try to sketch out my prototype, I found out that actually translating the ideas and concepts from assignment 1 into a concrete representation was a more involved process than I had imagined.  My design called for a quick and easy guest login to quickly rent new release movies and pay upfront, as well as supporting a Netflix-style service with a wide selection, home delivery and dowloadable content.  The prototype I'm showing here illustrates the steps of the guest login, though the membership screens would appear very similar and would offer "download" or "delivery" buttons instead of the payment screen shown here.  The input controls for the kiosk system would consist of a card reader slot, a trackball with a button for clicking and a numpad for data entry.  Everything in a blue box in the prototype represents a clickable field.  The main interface for selecting movies includes a scrollable thumbnailed list of availible movies, showing box art with movie title, starring actors and genre in text below, and a shopping cart.  Clicking on a movie selects it, while clicking on the add to cart button puts it into the shopping cart, which is another thumbnailed list much like the main list, and shows the total cost at the bottom.  Selecting a movie from the shopping cart and clicking "remove from cart" sends it back to the list.  Both lists are updated in real time.  The next screen prompts for payment in much the same way as an ATM machine, and the final screen asks the user to take their movie(s), with a reminder that additional features can be used with a membership subscription.

-Kevin E