Archive for January, 2009

Pushed a few changes to the site today:
- Users can now upload movie posters and profile pics.
- We fixed the bug where some of the sliders get stuck underneath one another.
- We added functionality to rate movies upon hovering over a movie poster. This clears up some space and makes the Browse Page even simpler.
- [...]

A New Release

In: New Features

21 Jan 2009

We rolled out a new release of the website today! Now before any of our current users start to panic, let us spend a few lines of text to explain the changes we’ve made on HelloMovies.
A Major Update

We spent all our effort on this new release to make finding a movie to watch as simple [...]

Happy New Year

In: Execution

5 Jan 2009

Since my last post, we have been focusing all our efforts toward improving usability across the site. We conducted surveys to learn how people decide what movies to watch. We questioned people on problems they have with finding movies to watch. And we developed personas of different user types including the casual movie watcher and [...]


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