The problem Celestial&Chill solves

Celestial&Chill is a streaming platform which is used to watch movies and tv-shows. It has a celestial aesthetic to it which makes it more visually appealing to curious minds. It is a better option than watching content in movie halls because it offers a wide range of options. One can enjoy this content from the comfort of one's home. It ends up being less expensive as it only has a one time subscription. It provides an advantage compared to TV as it’s able to give you an option of choosing any movie or show you like and enjoy it without ads, and with the luxury of pausing, rewinding and forwarding.

Our streaming platform will provide all the usual features like categories and collections of content including a trending category, an easy to use search feature, a watchlist feature, different profiles for people using the same account, ability to download content for offline watching, and a small description of each movie for the user to be able to select what to watch. To overcome decision paralysis we have included a "watch random" feature.

Our design in particular offers easy navigation and a variety of unique features which include watching movies on the basis of MOOD, making COLLABORATIVE PLAYLISTS and FILTERING through shows and movie shows on the basis of features such as imdb rating and duration which is usually not provided in current streaming applications. Keeping in line with our galactic theme, we have included CELESTIAL BASED CATEGORIES which feature various space themed content classified in a way that it's simple for the user to find one that fits the mindset of that day perfectly!

Challenges we ran into

While using Figma to design our prototype, we ran into a lot of challenges. Having participated in Pollux earlier, we did have an idea of how Figma works but we were still very unaware of the depths of how it functions. We tried our best to include as many features as possible to make our design the best choice.

For the initial animation at the startup of the platform, we wanted to include a rocket to act as the startup movement. We had to do various trial and error runs to figure out how to add this animation so that it looks smooth. We finally settled on smart animate. For other animations as well, we had to sort through various options as one glove didn't fit all.

We were not able to figure out how to add horizontal scrolling in a frame that already had vertical scrolling. We then managed to learn this through resources on the net. We added a frame that could scroll horizontally onto our screen(this already had vertical scrolling) which then incorporated another frame with the content we wanted to scroll through.

We wanted to include a side drawer which would make our design very easy to navigate but prototyping all the buttons in it was a huge task that became more and more complicated as we delved deeper into the functionalities of the design. Similarly, we included back buttons to make the design more convenient.

We had to include accessibility features so that our platform would be suitable for people with different needs but we were not so aware of the things we could do to make our platform friendly so we firstly researched on that and then managed to add some features.