CBS

So CBS says to us, “Hey guys, CES is in 4 weeks and we want to do an app on a platform that nobody has done much work on yet.  You in?”

Tight timeframe, new platform, and great client? Of course we are.  So this one was interesting, Rovi is starting to release a cool new guide product called the TotalGuide.  Its a brand spanking new way to do content discovery.  This platform has the ability for 3rd party providers to create their own microsite experiences.  However up until this point no one had really used that functionality much.  So CBS was going to be one of the first on board, and we’d be the engine behind that development.

For this project we had limited design time so we leveraged some design cues from CBS.com to create a consistent user experience.  We were also able to leverage our experience in designing UI’s specific to a TV experience.  In this case we tried to keep most navigation in a consistent manner so users wouldn’t get “lost” while navigating with a traditional remote control.  Development went really more smoothly then we’d hoped.  We were able to leverage many of our existing code libraries to implement navigation and data updates.

At the end of the day we were extremely happy with what we were able to produce. CBS and Rovi were pretty happy with it too.