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I subscribed to a trial for Netflix today and noticed something that annoyed me. The one main thing people do on Netflix is browse the movie titles and add them to their queue. So as I just joined, away I went browsing the selection to add movies.

As I was browsing the movie selection and graciously adding movies to the queue, each time a clicked add, it took me to a different page. Now, this may seem ok, but this action confuses me. I did not want to view anything about the movie, I just wanted it added to my queue. I apparently knew enough about it already to click add, so why would I want to view more information. Maybe I saw several movies I wanted to add. So now I have to click add, back, add, back, etc. Why not just implement a nice piece of AJAX as they have done with their ratings so that when I click add, that is all that is done? I think this would make the process a much better experience for the user.

If I wanted to view more information about the movie or find out similar movies, I would then do as expected and clink on the link or the thumbnail of the movie. But when I click “add”, that is all I want to do, nothing more.

This is just a small rant I have about the system, other than that it seems pretty good. Now I am just waiting on my two movies to arrive so I may sit in front of the tube with some buttery popcorn goodness.