Everyone loves watching movies, but the process of finding a good movie to watch on streaming devices is often a frustrating experience. Presenting The Critics App, a one stop shop for all your movie needs. All you do is login into the app and connect all your streaming devices in the application. Based on your viewed movies, recommendations are provided. You can connect with your friends and create movie listsing, watch parties, engage in forums, chat live, use a tie breaker when you cannot decide which movie to watch. The Critics App, improving the social experience of choosing a movie.
The Goal Tree formed the base of the project and led to exploring new ideas and debugging issues with respect to the functionaities. By focus setting with the help to team brainstorming, six foci were choosen for interviews namely, Deciding factors, Platofrom preference, Movie Serch criteria, Movie search time, Recommendations, and Social deciding factors. Semi-structured interviews paved way to finding answers to the set foci. The interviews were then analyzed by team members by interpreting the important key pharses and diagrams like Identity model, Day in a life model, Relationship Model, Physical Model, and Sequence Model.
Once all Wireframes were done we conducted Think Aloud Tests with stakeholders and Usability Testing using Jacob Neilsons Hueristics. Usability testing was carried out by our entire team as well as classmates.
The identified issues were then implemented to inculcate seamless functionality.