HCA Television Awards Submission Site
The TV submissions site for the critics guild the Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) is a home for studios and PR reps to submit entries for the 2022 HCA TV Awards.
The Challenge
The Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) wanted to streamline the process and give submitters a better user experience than other television submission sites. In three weeks, I developed and integrated a login membership system, database entry form, sort/filter dashboard options, and a Stripe checkout system.
Simple & Clean
I designed the site to be as simple and clean as possible because the main focus and priority of the users is the ease of the submission process. After all, if you're submitting over 50 entries for a studio, the process cannot be complicated.
Three Tickets to Paradise
After several discussions with the organization and a few PR people, we came up with a three-step process to submit an entry. Since the information needed for the series and talent categories are vastly different, the forms are dynamically rendered depending on their chosen category. Once the form is submitted, the user is given a preview of their entry to double-check for errors.
The Final Step
Once the user has decided that it's good to go, the entry is added to the Stripe checkout cart via Express.js. Thanks to Stripe's API, users are able to securely pay for their entries. Once the entries are paid for, the entries will dynamically change the entries status from "Add to Cart" to "PAID."
