Campbell Interactive

As I lay in bed here on a Saturday night watching The Holiday once again since my lovely wife fell asleep during the first go round I am fuming about how horrible the main menu for this DVD is designed. Laying comfortably in bed trying to manage the selection of the scene selection section, say that five times fast, with literally no discernible visual feedback, well its just horrible.

Each menu item is black text on white background and from the vantage point of my cozy bed regardless of your selection it remains black text on white background.

Tsk, tsk, tsk. Where am I? What can I do here? Where can I go? How do I get there? Where have I been? Not all of the answers to these questions are integral to a decent DVD menu design but if you can at least hit one of them then bravo. This however does not appear to be the case for The Holiday. Now perhaps they choose a slight color shift that occurs in the background, if so then as stated it escapes me from where I sit and I am not going so far as to abandon the comfort of my bed to confirm the existence of said rollover. The whole point of this is I shouldn’t have to, I should be able to sit here at a reasonable distance and navigate the thing.

I’d say it was bad enough that I had to endure this “chick flick” not once but twice all with a helpless feeling generated by, IMHO, poor menu design but honestly I like the movie so I’ll just hope that if ever in this situation again where I lay in my bed prepped to watch The Holiday it’s either on it’s ABC broadcast premiere or hitting the play button is sufficient to set me on my way.