Classic Christmas Movies
This 1946 film stars Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey.
What is It’s a Wonderful Life?
In Elf, Buddy travels from the North Pole to this U.S. city.
What is New York City?
What's the city called in The Grinch
What is Whoville
This 2003 film interweaves multiple love stories, including one involving the Prime Minister.
What is Love Actually?
This type of pattern tricks users into doing something they didn’t mean to do.
What are dark patterns
In Home Alone, the McCallisters accidentally leave behind this child.
Who is Kevin?
In National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, this rodent is found loose inside the house.
What is a squirrel?
In Frosty the Snowman, Frosty comes to life thanks to this object.
What is a magic hat?
Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet swap houses in this cozy holiday film.
What is The Holiday?
This dreaded phrase usually signals a business requirement disguised as UX reasoning.
What is “Users want this” without evidence?
This stop-motion film follows Rudolph and his glowing red nose.
What is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
In The Santa Clause, Scott Calvin becomes Santa after this incident.
What is Santa falling off the roof?
In the movie, The Polar Express, guests are served this drink and is warned "Never let this drink get cool"
What is Hot Chocolate?
In Last Christmas, Emilia Clarke’s character works at a shop dedicated to this holiday.
What is Christmas?
This diagram helps teams visualize complexity and identify where a system is breaking down.
What is an ecosystem map?
In A Christmas Story, Ralphie desperately wants this gift.
What is a Red Ryder BB gun?
Jack Skellington tries to take over Christmas in this Tim Burton classic.
What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?
The name of the rabbit in the magic hat in "Frosty the Snowman"
Who is Hocus Pocus?
This Netflix trilogy follows a teenage girl and a prince in a fictional kingdom.
What is the Christmas Prince?
This is what you call a design that scaled so chaotically across markets and platforms that no one remembers how it started.
What is UX debt?
Or “a Frankenstein system."
This 1954 movie features Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye teaming up to save a Vermont inn.
What is White Christmas?
This 2000 film shows a town trying to boycott Christmas for a Caribbean cruise instead.
What is Christmas with the Kranks?
In Klaus, the postman Jesper is sent to this remote northern village.
What is Smeerensburg?
This movie features a woman who runs into her childhood sweetheart while stuck in her hometown due to a snowstorm.
What is Falling for Christmas or Let It Snow — depending on version?
This happens when a design team adds features without a strategic rationale, eventually slowing everything down.
What is scope creep or feature creep?