grace joseph

IamDb

Ideation / UI/UX Design + Front-End Development

DURATION: November - December 2021

LINK: IamDb

For my final project for the course Programming Usable Interfaces, I decided to implement a movie review / recommendation site, inspired by my longtime love of film and incessant rabbitholing into IMDb. I called the site IamDb as a tribute to the way 90% of my brain consists of film/tv related facts and trivia. (The APIs I was using at the time have since been deprecated so the site is still under construction.)

Methods

Wireframing

Prototyping

Front-end Development

Tools

Figma

HTML/CSS

JS

External APIs

Github

Inspiration

As a child I would watch maybe 2 or 3 movies a week with my parents and always wanted to store my thoughts and opinions on them somewhere. My friends were always asking me for recommendations on films to watch and at one point they thought of me as their personal “IMDb” to which I would jest “yes, I am Db”. This project finally gave me an excuse to create an interactive tool / film blog where I can not only serve as an amateur film critic but also help users determine what films are worth spending time watching given their own interests and the information/insight I can provide them with. I want to not only convey my own opinions and thoughts on different films but also add easy access to important metadata related to each film such as the cast, writers, directors, genres, box office, content rating, etc. My target audience with creating this tool is anyone interested in finding new movies to watch based on their interests and/or interested in reading reviews and reflections on different aspects of films they may have already seen.

This site is currently live at IamDb.