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IMDb Name Page Redesign
We are excited to announce the launch of IMDb’s redesigned Name pages! These pages are meant to make your IMDb experience easier and more enjoyable by providing better access to photos and videos, an upgraded view of an individual’s credits, and improved mobile navigation making it easier to view IMDb features on the go. These enhancements reflect changes suggested by IMDb customers, as well as our own in-depth research designed to enhance entertainment content, discovery, and navigation. More information is available in the FAQ on the help page.
We hope you enjoy these latest improvements, and thank you for continuing to make IMDb the world’s most trusted source for movie, TV, and entertainment content.
— The IMDb Team
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TrevX
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542 Points
2 years ago
Judging by these comments, nobody likes these redesigns, so I'm in the minority here. I've been using IMDb since 2006 and I've liked every single redesign, including the newest ones. I personally prefer it when everything is bigger, without having to zoom in on my browser, and I like how everything is organized.
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TrevX
15 Messages
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542 Points
2 years ago
I'd like to see the new name page redesign. I'm still seeing the old name pages. If I opt in to the beta tests, will I be able to see them? If so, how do I do this?
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MKG
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80 Points
2 years ago
Simply stated.... The "new" version is awful!!!!!
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mrkevensantos
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134 Points
2 years ago
NO...NO...and...NO. Please change it to the old design. It doesn't make any sense. As an Actor myself I hate this new version. When you are visiting any IMDb page you wan't to see a simple filmography with all the credits with no images, with the films and the Tv Series with the episodes list with at least 5 episodes. All that in one box, at leat the actor credits. I also liked to see the production status in red in the top of the filmography.
Unnecessary changes. But who approved this? I really don't understand this changes. I'm not paying an expensive annual subscription for this...Anyone can see the old version was way much better.
How do I undo this? There must be a way to put it back as it was?
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quaraxkad
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162 Points
2 years ago
So, nearly everybody hates the new name page design which is no surprise given the response to every previous design change (AKA regression). So, let's just fix it ourselves, shall we?
Here's a quick userscript to fix what I see as the largest problems with the new design: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Quaraxkad/f19b6a021f6f8460e161e26727e4e9c1/raw/7cdd9c83eafd326845ec5a0a46d7d2df5fbcf5df/fiximdbnamepage.js
Tested in Tampermonkey 4.18.0 on Firefox 91.0.1. I'm not an expert in userscripts or javascript, I can't guarantee compatibility or even that it'll work for you!
The script should remove a bunch of junk, and restore the full text-based filmography table format.
Here's a before and after:
(edited)
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Maxence_G
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71.2K Points
2 years ago
On my device, it reverted to the old design.
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bossmeggan
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64 Points
2 years ago
Please enable a hover option over the "i" (for info) so that I don't have to click to open and close it. Often I just want a quick look at the movie's rating.
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martin_695862
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2 years ago
The things that I would like see changed about the new design (I'm sure I raised these points during beta testing) are:
- Even if by default you show only the most recent n titles and don't list individual episodes of a TV series, there should be a single button/link which expands to show everything in a section (eg actor, self, producer): all titles and all episodes for all TV series. It should not be necessary to expand one TV series at a time, nor to only be able to see only one season at a time of that series.
- The "Edit Page" button should be moved either to the very top or else the very bottom of the page. At present it is necessary to scroll up and down the page to hunt for the Edit button. Ideally you should ditch all the entire "More to explore" section because what is shown there is not part of the person's filmography. Crap like "User lists", "Our favroite Hollywood power couples", "User Polls", "Add a demo reel" may pander to the hard-of-thinking Hello-magazine-reading people, but it is utterly irrelevant to the person whose page is being displayed. If you deleted all that, the "Edit" button would be near the bottom of the page, as it used to be.
Both these changes would make the page a lot more usable. It would still look rather naff and totally out of keeping with the rest of the site, but I could live with that.
How that is achieved, in terms of the code to generate it, and how it is rendered in HTML, in terms of tables, divs, spans etc, is up to you. However the information should still be presented hierarchically - either by default or else by a single button/link click. That would satisfy the both people who want to see a brief summary and those who want to expand to produce an exhaustive list.
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DGraf
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170 Points
2 years ago
Hate the new design, This is no longer a useful data base. Pics for phones is not a reason to redesign.
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PatrickD
10 Messages
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244 Points
2 years ago
The first and foremost objection to the new design (mentioned it on the old design too) is the White backgrounds. Too glaring, blinding and distracting. It has been proven that a darker background - especially in the evening hours - is more beneficial, health-wise. The problem here is half the page has a dark background and the other half has a white background. What is the reasoning here?
I use a Firefox addon called Owl that attempts to address the harsh backgrounds, but on IMDB, the combination makes it impossible to 'repair'. Please fix this. For those that may have vision conditions of varying degrees, it is an intolerable health and 'accessibility' matter. I wonder what others in the industry with sensitive vision have to say about this? Please make the entire backgrounds consistent, either in a more tolerable manner or so viewers are able to adjust the entire page to their own preference. Input fields like where this message is being typed is not so bad, but the rest of the page should not be as glaring as a bank of stadium lights. The plain white background needs to GO. Thank you.
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fotoref
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70 Points
2 years ago
I will summarize my impression of the new design with the words of another commentator: "a clunky, unnecessary mess". How could someone call this an "improvement" for IMDB users is beyond my comprehension. I would revert to the old design immediately if given the possibility. This is a perfect example of how the idea of mobile useability deteriorates the user's experience on more or less every formerly perfectly working platform.
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GLaurenceB
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60 Points
2 years ago
The new layout is terrible. Please reinstate the old one. Admit that you have got it wrong.
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gliding
5 Messages
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106 Points
2 years ago
grey font on black background isn t readable. how to get black on white?
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Augusto
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70 Points
2 years ago
Hi. When I check some actor's filmography on the mobile app I can see for each film the stars, the general one and eventually the star that I gave to the film. I'd like to have the same info on the computer website view. I'd like to see on the right (for example) the same stars as on the mobile app.
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chat_at_getsatisfaction
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102 Points
2 years ago
As the saying goes: "If it ain't broke, don't mend it" ! !
. . . Why, oh why, must companies keep changing things, when there is no improvement ? !
Leave it be; the webpages worked perfectly the way they were ! !
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