Yahoo 100: Top Movies
Designing a browsable, editorial-feeling ranking experience for Yahoo's Top 100 movies — turning a data-driven scoring model into content people want to explore.
What problem existed?
Yahoo wanted to surface the Top 100 movies of the year — but the ranking itself is a blend of signals: audience ratings, the star power of the cast, and how much interest a film is generating on Yahoo News and Yahoo Search, with extra credit for recent releases. The challenge was turning that scoring model into something people actually want to browse.
What I owned
I was the UI/UX designer on the project, responsible for translating the ranking model into a browsable, editorial-feeling interface.
How I got there
I designed the list and detail views so the ranking reads like curated editorial content rather than a raw data export — balancing the score-driven ranking with a layout that highlights each film clearly, across both desktop and mobile.
What shipped
A ranked, scannable Top 100 experience for Yahoo that blends quantitative scoring — ratings, star power, search and news interest, recency — with an editorial presentation.