ReQuest – HD Television and Touch Screen Interface – 2009
By 2009, ReQuest was offering a fully server-based movie solution which was new for our industry. It required some additions to our interface, so we decided to overhaul it completely.
Unfortunately, the GUI at the time was built completely in flash and already used up a lot of resources. Additionally we were still concerned about “burn in” on some screens, so I opted to do all the graphics in vector using a fairly simple color palette on dark backgrounds.
This had to be easily controlled by either an infrared remote (up, down, left, right navigation) or a touch screen. We stuck with variations on this interface all the way up to 2013.