I use it to look for screen caps of my favorite movies.
Screenmusings is usually my go-to, but navigating the site can be tricky sometimes. So, I decided
to give the site a makeover.
FINDING PROBLEMS
What exactly didn't I like about the original website?
small font-size headings in low contrast colors
multiple navigation bars - some lead to the same pages, some lead to different pages
Some movies appear twice (like 2001: A Space Odyssey), and each has a different set of images.
It seems this is because one link is for DVD captures and the other contains Blu-Ray captures.
It would be nice to have a way to distinguish this!
Nav bar “filters” on the left do not always reload with clear headings - for example,
the “Trailers” filter still leaves the heading as Index of Movies, whereas clicking on other
filters does update the header (ie. Index of Blu-ray Movies, Index of Cinematographers, etc).
also interesting - on mobile, the left vertical navbar collapses and merges with the top navbar
all movies are organized in alphabetical order but the column-wrap order can make
ordering ambiguous - I always have to double-check whether it is alphabetical
in the column direction or row direction.
On mobile, you can click “more” to reveal a dropdown menu, but there is no way to collapse it.
some of the entries are music videos, which do not contain director/cinematographer information.
I didn’t expect a movie site to include music videos.
Inconsistency in director names, ex. Park Chan-wook vs Chan-wook Park
A lot of things to consider - so, I started with some lo-fi prototypes to get a simple design down.
