IMDb Name Page Redesign

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.

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? Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled How do I opt into the beta / redesign?

Simply stated.... The "new" version is awful!!!!!

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?

On my device, it reverted to the old design.

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.

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.

Hate the new design, This is no longer a useful data base. Pics for phones is not a reason to redesign.

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.

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.

The new layout is terrible. Please reinstate the old one. Admit that you have got it wrong.

grey font on black background isn t readable. how to get black on white? Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Text Readability on Actor's Filmography

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. Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled filmography in computer website view

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 ! ! :-(