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From: N-Yashwitha <nettemyashwitha1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:13:15 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Add Movie Card component design specification

This document provides a comprehensive design and specification for the Movie Card component, detailing its purpose, required data, layout structure, hover behavior, responsiveness, visual style, accessibility requirements, implementation guidelines, and tasks for contributors.
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+# Movie Card Component – Design & Specification (No-Code Contribution)
+
+This document defines the full structure, behavior, and design requirements for the **Movie Card component** requested in Issue #1053.  
+It provides a clear blueprint for future contributors to implement the UI component without ambiguity.
+
+---
+
+## 1. Purpose of the Movie Card
+Users currently have no visually appealing way to browse movie information.  
+This component aims to provide:
+
+- Quick movie overview  
+- Simple, modern visual card  
+- Lightweight hover interactions  
+- Aesthetic styles (Glassmorphism / Neon)
+
+This specification does **not** include code, only structure and design.
+
+---
+
+## 2. Required Data (Component Props)
+
+The Movie Card will accept the following props/data:
+
+```json
+{
+  "title": "Movie Title",
+  "year": 2022,
+  "rating": 8.4,
+  "genres": ["Action", "Drama"],
+  "posterUrl": "https://image-link",
+  "description": "Short movie summary goes here.",
+  "trailerUrl": "https://youtube-link"
+}
+
+## 3. Layout Structure
+### Card Sections:
+
+### Poster Section
+
+- Full-width image
+
+- Rounded corners or neon glow
+
+- Lazy-loaded for performance
+
+### Information Section
+
+- Movie Title (bold)
+
+- Release Year (lighter text)
+
+- Star Rating
+
+- 5 star icons
+
+- Filled vs unfilled based on rating
+
+- Genre Tags
+
+- Small pills/chips
+
+- Scrollable on mobile
+
+- Hover Section
+
+- Only visible on hover/press
+
+### Includes:
+
+- Short description (2–3 lines)
+
+- “Watch Trailer” button/link
+
+## 4. Hover Behavior (Animation Specification)
+### On Hover:
+
+- Card scales slightly (1.03x)
+
+- Background blur/glass effect increases
+
+- Description fades in
+
+- Trailer button slides up
+
+### Animation Rules:
+
+- Max duration: 150–250ms
+
+- Use GPU-friendly transforms
+
+- Avoid heavy shadows for performance
+
+## 5. Responsiveness Behavior
+### Mobile:
+
+- Poster on top
+
+- Title + rating below
+
+- Genres in a horizontal scroll
+
+- Hover replaced with tap-to-expand behavior
+
+### Tablet:
+
+- Slightly larger poster
+
+- Hover enabled
+
+- Multi-line description allowed
+
+### Desktop:
+
+- Full hover animation
+
+- Neon/glass effects more visible
+
+- Rating + genre tags inline
+
+## 6. Visual Style Guide (No strict CSS)
+### Option 1: Glassmorphism
+
+- Background blur: 10–20px
+
+- Soft white transparency
+
+- Subtle shadows
+
+### Option 2: Neon / Cyberpunk
+
+- Bright cyan/purple glows
+
+- Black or dark backgrounds
+
+- Hover glow on stars and poster
+
+### Typography:
+
+- Title: Bold, large
+
+- Year and genres: smaller, low opacity
+
+### Rating: icons must be readable at small sizes
+
+## 7. Accessibility Requirements
+
+- Poster image must have alt text
+
+- Trailer link must have aria-label
+
+- Colors must pass contrast if neon is used
+
+- Keyboard focus must reveal the hover content
+
+- Every interactive element must be tabbable
+
+## 8. Implementation Guidelines (For Future Contributors)
+
+- This component should be easy to integrate:
+
+Example usage:
+
+<MovieCard
+  title="Inception"
+  year={2010}
+  rating={8.8}
+  genres={['Sci-Fi', 'Thriller']}
+  posterUrl="/img/inception.webp"
+  description="A thief who steals corporate secrets through dream-sharing..."
+  trailerUrl="https://youtube.com/trailer-url"
+/>
+
+### Component must:
+
+- Accept props listed above
+
+- Render consistently across screen sizes
+
+- Stay lightweight (no heavy JS)
+
+- Work with plain HTML/CSS/JS or any framework
+
+## 9. Tasks for Implementation (For Maintainership / Devs)
+
+- To make this feature easy to implement, it is broken into sub-tasks:
+
+- Build card layout (HTML structure)
+
+- Add poster display
+
+- Add title + year
+
+- Add rating stars
+
+- Add genre tags
+
+- Add hover description + trailer button
+
+- Add animations
+
+- Add responsiveness
+
+- Improve accessibility
+
+- Each task can be picked individually by contributors.
+
+## 10. Why This Contribution Solves the Issue
+
+- Defines full UI layout
+
+- Describes props and expected input
+
+- Specifies animations and behaviors
+
+- Provides accessibility guidelines
+
+- Breaks the task into smaller parts
+
+- Gives future developers a blueprint to code the component