Narrowing the premade clip hub
Text search, judge chips and category chips cut the hub down.
The short answer
The Premade Clips hub gives you three ways to narrow the list: a text search that matches the clip title or the judge, judge chips, and category chips. A judge profile also links through to her clips, already filtered to her.
Text search
Type into the search box and the hub matches on the clip title or the judge’s name. It is the quickest option when you remember a word from a title or which judge made the one you want.
Clear the box to get the full list back.
Judge chips
Judge chips filter the hub to one judge’s clips. They are the right tool when you already like a judge’s style and want to see everything she has made, rather than hunting by title.
It is also a quiet way to learn a judge. Her clips, side by side, show how she presents across topics before you consider ordering from her.
Category chips
Category chips filter by the categories judges file their clips under. Use them when the topic matters more than the person, and combine them with a judge chip to see only that judge’s clips in one category.
Filters exist because long lists are hard to scan. Nielsen Norman Group’s article on filter categories and values describes filters as letting users shrink a long list of options to a manageable set. Here that means a handful of clips to preview instead of the whole hub.
Filtering by what you want to know
Think of the three filters as three questions. Who made it is the judge chip, what it is about is the category chip, and what it is called is the search box. Starting from the question you can answer fastest gets you to a short list quickly.
Each clip you reach this way still shows its price and runtime in the thumbnail corners, so you can compare the survivors at a glance before opening any.
Combining filters
The filters work together. Pick a judge chip to see her clips, then add a category chip to see only the ones she has filed there, or type a word into the search box to cut it further. Each step shrinks the grid.
If you end up with an empty grid, you have over-filtered. Clear the text first, then release a chip, and the clips come back. The filters never change what is in the hub, only what is shown.
A sensible order
If you know the judge, start with her chip. If you know only the topic, start with a category chip and let the thumbnails show you who made what. If you remember a title, use the search box and skip the chips.
Whichever way you narrow it, the preview is the last step before buying, and how to preview a premade clip before buying covers it.
Arriving from a judge profile
Each judge profile links through to her premade clips, pre-filtered to her, so you do not need to touch the chips at all. How to read a judge profile shows where those links sit.
Once the hub is narrowed, the prices, runtimes and Owned badges on the thumbnails help you choose. What a clip is and how it works is in premade rating clips, explained.