Idiot Box — Prototype Views

Start here → 11 — Marketing Site. From there: Marketing → Auth → Onboarding → Home, then the app nav covers the rest.

Daily use · discovery & watchlists

  1. 01 — What To Watch — Home screen showing what to watch right now, filtered to active subscriptions.
  2. 04 — Explore — Theme browsing, franchise universe maps, and trending. Lookup search is now a persistent ⌘K overlay in the top nav of every view.
  3. 02 — List Management — Directory of all watchlists with sharing and creation controls.
  4. 03 — Single List View — Contents of one list with sort, filter, emphasis, and progress tracking.
  5. 03b — Shared Group List — Curated list with member interest votes and a "Who's Here Tonight?" picker that protects absent members' picks.

Optimization · the cost engine

  1. 05 — The Lineup — Subscription optimizer that recommends keep / subscribe / downgrade / dump each month. Inline budget edit; per-card status (accept / skip / override); drag cards between columns to override the plan; add services you subscribed to or cancelled outside the plan; Step-by-Step list syncs to card states; savings card shows formula; Wishlist Passthrough metric tracks how many wishlist titles got watched because of Lineup swaps.
  2. 14 — Service Detail — Single streaming service page showing utility, cost, and titles you care about.
  3. 15 — Calendar — Upcoming releases, expirations, and event-tagged titles on a timeline.
  4. 13 — Inbox — Notification center for alerts, expirations, and monthly strategy nudges.

Detail surfaces · content model

  1. 06 — Title (Flick) — Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Membership chips/crumbs flex to cover orphan and multi-universe cases — no separate variants.
  2. 18 — Show Detail — Loki. Overview surface: hero + Up Next launcher + horizontal Season Strip. Episode list lives on the dedicated browser route. Distinct from film Title detail.
  3. 18 — Show Detail · Episode Browser — Loki episode browser. Sticky season sidebar + thin episode rows with one expanded fat-launcher row at a time. Scales for shows with many seasons/episodes.
  4. 18 — Show Detail · Up Next States (reference) — Design reference page demoing all Up Next state variants: Never Started, In Progress, Currently Airing, Caught Up New Season Coming, Hibernation, Completed, Rewatch Mode.
  5. 16 — Universe Detail · Tracking — MCU mid-progress (23/49 watched). Hero ring, saga band, Continue-the-MCU launcher, real posters across Phases 1–6.
  6. 16 — Universe Detail · Preview (reference) — Same universe before the user has watched anything. Ring becomes a status block; Continue becomes three Entry Points. Auto-derived from engagement, not a toggle.
  7. 17 — Franchise Detail — Marvel umbrella showing all universes inside it, series with no universe, and one-off films.
  8. 19 — Collection Detail — Disney Animation Films. Curated cross-franchise grouping, app-curated only.

Social

  1. 08 — Social & Friends — Friends, groups, and ad-hoc watch party recommendations.

Account · setup & settings

  1. 09 — Onboarding — Three-step setup: wallet, taste seeding, opt-in alerts.
  2. 12 — Authentication — Privacy-first signup: username + recovery key, Apple, or Google.
  3. 07 + 10 — Profile & Settings — Merged. Tabbed view with Profile (identity, region, theme, budget), Subscriptions (billing-line model with paid/bundle/free + tiers + frequency), Integrations (Trakt/Plex/Jellyfin/Kodi + FileFrame/Newt's Village), Filters (parental + ClearPlay/VidAngel overlays), Notifications, Watch History, Privacy, Support. 07-profile.html now redirects here.

Public

  1. 11 — Marketing Site — Public landing page pitching the financial-savings hook.