Well i often think how i would do stuff, diferent from what exists and what is normal… In this process i usually create mockups of how i think this things should be…
Well this time i was thinking about torrents clients, the old plain list of files with a progress bar, downloading a file named “Iron.Man.2008.Eng.TELESYNC.DivX-LTT.torrent”, not knowing if it has good quality or not… It’s just a big pain in the ass!! And that’s me! Try explaining to your mom how to download a torrent file! I would easily hack into the NSA first…
I wanted a clean interface that would be easy to use… Next i created this mockup.
- The main window has the section title, in this case “Tv Shows”, the series previously chosen by he user (House, Prison Break and 24).
- It contains a list of all the episodes inside Prison Break for us to download.
- The navigation through the various series is made by simply pressing the right or left key, and through the episodes pressing up and down.
- The Esc key will lead us to previous section, like Games, Movies, Programs, whatever…
- The idea behind the user avatar being cut is to display the ratio, it’s important for the users to have a high ratio, therefore warning them by not showing there avatar. The ratio is displayed along with the avatar.
- Showing the speeds in the main window allows the user to monitor the upload and download speeds quickly.
- Showing news about new episodes to come is always nice too.
Bye!
2 Comments
Hiya!
Aside from the UI design itself I see a major problem in this thinking. The problem is that downloading those tv series is illegal.
This would be, definitely, a great ideia to pursuit on a legal basis – remember Apple TV, that rocks – but based on illegal content this might pose some problems.
Why not make some system available but focusing on user generated content. The rest of the game – the illegal part for instance – comes by drag.
So, now, who want to share home videos with quality preview – even if those resemble some episode of some tv show?
(note the emphasis of using the technology for “polical correctness” purposes)
Cheers.
Hi there! You made the first comment!!
Well ye you are right… But the program will not be for commercial purposes… it should be developed like utorrent… Just with a better interface!
The content management of the images, checking the torrents quality, creating the various episodes descriptions, etc… All of that info would be kept in a future version of a torrent tracker and it could even be edited by the community just like wikipedia…
Now that would be ssssooooooo nice!! I could talk about this all night!
Thanks! Bye!