Moxi

UX | IA

Moxi started out as simply a DVR. The idea was to find a new way of looking at TV listings and recordings - and make it simple to navigate with a standard remote. Left and right take you to different TV filters (Movies, Kids, News etc) and "apps" (recorded TV, settings, etc), up and down navigate the content of those filters. The biggest challenge has been adding all of the additional things that we now do on our TVs - Photos, Music, Games, DLNA content, VOD, and even an HTML5 apps. Currently has over a million device deployments with various cable companies.

Skins

Each cable customer we have wants their own brand represented in their UI, so we accommodate (to a point). Nothing huge, mostly color and small graphics changes, but some customers have their own icons they want to use or want us to come up with something different for them.

However, it seems like every year for NCTA or CES, we'd be tasked with doing something "cool" to show off at the show. These are a couple of those concepts that we actually built out and were available later for download.

Portal

When we launched the Retail version of the Moxi DVR, we needed a website for the customer to log-in and do their DVR registration and remote management from. We also built the consumer-facing site, but it's long gone by now and I couldn't find any of the old comps so this is all I've got.

App Store

At the time, everyone was going "App Store" crazy. So, we were told by the powers that be that we needed an app store too. Hmmm. OK, let's take advantage of this and do some things that we can't do in the standard Moxi Menu.

So we build a number of our own apps including a VOD app, horoscopes, movie listings, nNews, weather etc. These were all HTML5 web apps that ran on a built-in low-powered browser. All navigable by remote, of course. I actually did all of the front-end HTML/CSS/Javascript for the apps and the app store itself.

The VOD app is actually the first HTML5 App we were told to build. The navigation has to be able to accommodate any crazy hierarchy the cable companies can come up with which is why we went with the side navigation. Once you've selected a category, the navigation scoots out of your way.

Everybody loves weather apps! As you can see, it's got the standard stuff. I like the nice big images reflect the weather conditions. Simple remote navigation - left and right to move through Today, Forecast, Hourly, Radar, and City Picker, up and down to move through different cities. Again, I did the front-end HTML/CSS/Javascript on this one.

Mobile

Before I left Arris, we created a mobile version of MOXI for iPad. It had the guide, show info - you could even watch live or recorded programming in the app. We were just working on V2 when I left and it's really the only regret I have leaving there, was not being able to finish V2. We were really looking at solving the problem people are still trying to solve as an aggrigator of video content. At the time, Netflix was just starting to take hold and Prime Video was just starting out. We had a vision of binging all of your content together so you could access it from one app, alongside your DVR recordings.