Front Row Reborn: Movies
Large poster art, new movie indicator. Much more visual, visceral interface to browsing your movies from a 10 foot interface.
Movie detail view.
Poster art slides out, info fades in. Clicking “More” gives you more info and an option to view the trailer, if available.
Genre view.
Use the fantastic genre artwork already in iTunes, allow quick filtering. Scrolling the long list of movies would trigger an alphabet overlay, indicating where you are in the list. They’ve had this on the iPod for how long now? It’s a no-brainer.
Search view.
Big, easy to navigate on screen keyboard, results as you type. Poster art to reinforce results. Simple.
Music browser.
Use coverflow! Not as a navigation device, but as visual enhancement, giving each album context, and creating an emotional connection with the user. Browsing, or filtering, really, can be done from one screen, one menu. Controls would be left, up or down, right to go back. “All” for each criteria.
Music now playing.
I like the simple Now Playing mode in AppleTv/Front Row, but it could be vastly more dynamic with a subtle visualizer included. Make it an option, so if you don’t like it, you don’t need it.
The Kicker:
I’ve made a simple demo in “HTML5” (thats what we’re calling all this newfangled web stuff now, right?). It’s built using webkit, without any images (other than poster art).
Check it out. Safari/chrome only.
