Web Anatomy: Interaction Design Frameworks that Work

7. Movies Sites

In this chapter, we take a look at a framework from a niche industry in an effort to show you how different site types can contain their own frameworks—ones you’ll find only within that genre and that represent most of what sets the site apart from sites in other industries. Movie sites serve as a great example of this because, perhaps counterintuitively, while they frequently deliver fun and engaging experiences that appear completely unique, they are surprisingly consistent, and are therefore quite easy to pick apart and understand.

In the Design Criteria section later in this chapter, we’ll look at possibilities for improvement and innovation. For now, however, we’ll focus on the fun (and, of course, the list of framework ...