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Thursday, October 20th, 2022 2:07 PM

IMDb Name Page Redesign

IMDb Name Page Redesign

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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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2 years ago

Sorry for my bad english, try to understand what i have to say. I had to register on the forum just to let you know that I'm not happy with the new style either. The only good thing about the new design is how well it works on mobile. In the old version you could easily see everything essential at a glance. Now you have to tap different menus to even see the episodes where someone has appeared. As already said, the impression is messy and confused.

Simplify these new pages for god's sake!

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2 years ago

Re: PR_Man's email, please see attached:

To illustrate the problem, consider the following IMDB link:

 

 

 

Note the link at the margin: 0;">To the far right it says: “2 Episodes”

If you click on the link “2 Episodes,” you get taken to the page below:

The screen shows the link to one episode “S4.E17 Passage on the Lady Anne” – But you can’t scroll down to see the link to the second episode

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@PR_Man​  Thanks for the example and the screen-grab. The episodes are split by season so you are viewing his first episode in his first season, which is season 4 (as highlighted in yellow in the pop-up); in this case to see the other episode, you would click the “5” in the season menu.  

We have a suggestion elsewhere in this Sprinklr thread which we are reviewing and that is to add an “All” season view for cases where the person only worked on a small number of episodes across two or more seasons (as is the case with your example).

Hope this helps. 

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@Col_Needham​ 

You are right!

Thanks for the explanation.

Pat

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2 years ago

A useful feature for determining the noteworthy films of a given actor, director, writer, etc. was to go to that list and then to sort by, say, the film's average review score, or, in my preferred method, to sort by the number of ratings the film had overall. When I browse someone's Credits section now, I can only filter by job type and their credits get sorted by date from latest to earliest.

Please consider bringing back more sorting in these and other lists on the site.

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Please bring back sorting features for lists of films

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@ds0​ Thanks for the feedback, but all of the sorting features are still available on the new name pages.  We have actually added additional options on the new pages.  Please see the "All topics" menu in the upper right of the name page (screen-shots included in an earlier post at https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/imdb-name-page-redesign/6351563ae7100d725d54c0bb?commentId=6358cfc5ef90664918a5bd64&replyId=6358e79b232e4267b00341c6)

Hope this helps. 

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@Col_Needham​ Exactly what I wanted. Thanks your time.

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2 years ago

Can anyone recommend a similar site to this one that has a better layout/structure/ease of use/user friendly/less complicated interface than this new design.

I know about Rotten Tomatoes, are there any others?

I never thought I'd ever be looking to leave IMDB but here we are.

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@Thunderwing13​ 

Can anyone recommend a similar site to this one

Yes, the site you are seeking is IMDb.com

Have you looked at the options in the "All topics" menu at the top right of every name page (the same as the "All topics" menu in the same place on title pages)? To access this menu, click the link highlighted in red:

Also, have you looked at the sort / filter options in the "filter" menu (highted in red), it sounds like "Text view of credits" would suit your needs (highlighted in yellow):

Instead of spending time learning a new UI on a different website, we recommend you could use the same time to explore the significantly more powerful views and options available on the new IMDb name pages instead. 

Hope this helps. 

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@Col_Needham​  - yup.  And it has to be done every single time for every single click, just to be able to use the site.  Not really a selling point when you already have 7 pages worth of people complaining about how terrible this redesign is, and how everything single feature they liked is either gone or buried within layers of options that does not persist beyond a single page view.  

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2 years ago

It looks like the option "Display credits separately for Movie and TV" in Content Settings is no longer respected. You can choose "Sort by" -> "Project type" on individual pages, but the preference does not get remembered. Is it just going to be this way? Any way to force the project type sorting?

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@nardog​ Your observation is correct for now, sorry.  The preferences are still largely on the old technology; we have been able to bridge the localisation preference between the two technologies, but not the in-page ones.  We will check with the team on whether this can at least be made sticky instead, such that if you select it on one page, the selection carries forward to other name pages viewed by the same browser.  It is (temporarily) easier to do this vs. a centrally stored preference.  

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2 years ago

Hello,

I can't find where I sort and filter a director's work: by film type (Film, TV, Mini-Series, etc.) and sort it by Rating.

In the old IMDB, sorting buttons were placed in the right side, but now I can't find anywhere in the new user interface.

I used that sorting quite frequently and now it can't be found in the page.

Please assist

Thank you.

Elad.

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Sort and Filter Director\Actor work by Rating and Type

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@eladzmrPlease see the "All topics" menu in the upper right of the name page (screen-shots included in an earlier post at https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/imdb-name-page-redesign/6351563ae7100d725d54c0bb?commentId=6358cfc5ef90664918a5bd64&replyId=6358e79b232e4267b00341c6).  The "All topics" menu is standard on the redesigned title pages too. 

You can also filter filmographies by type via the filter menu underneath the "Credits" heading, click the symbol highlighted in red and see the options highlighted in yellow:

Hope this helps. 

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2 years ago

Is there any way you could either save state of the page, or open things in new pages? If I bring up 'Charlie Brill' (nm0109318), click on 'Self', click on the Tattletales '45 episodes' link, go to page 3 of that list, click on an episode, then Alt+Left arrow (or click 'back') to go back to the previous page, that state is lost, and I need to then click on 'Self', click on '45 episodes, and click on page 3 to get back to where I was. If you included that state info in the URL, that would get the user back to where they were. The other option is to automatically open those detail pages in another window or tab so the user could close the tab or window to get back to where they were. Right now, I need to remember to right-click and select 'Open link in new tab' in order to not lose my place. Note: I use Microsoft Edge.

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Hi, James Johnston. You've made a great observation and a spectacular point, but the problem in mind is not going to be fixed any time soon at all, Just about the same problem exists on all "modernized" websites, except for the ones where developers made it a point to code the JavaScript in such a way as to remember every little change of state made to an instance of a web page in the "forward" and "back" of a given browser tab's navigation history. This is partially Google's fault, for popularizing such an asinine approach to website navigation.

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@james_johnston_4d5h8woi6a7ga​ 

My mouse has a wheel, and clicking on that wheel (middle-click) opens the link in a new tab automatically, both in Edge and Chrome. If you don't have a middle button, it might be that a shift- or control-click of some sort would do the same.

I agree with Jeorj that this is a prevalent design choice (beyond IMDb), so I have trained myself to almost always open links that way. 

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2 years ago

The actor page is poorly designed.  Not being able to open up the actors full credits in a new page is very inconvenient and frustrating. Please give the option to view the old page design 

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@DetroitShadows​ 

You can open an actor's full credits in a new page. I suggest trying the menu or reading the help page.

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70 Points

2 years ago

I hate this. The new design is clunky and over-simplified. Lifelong professional careers are now reduced to the few most "popular" credits. It's insulting. Credits in departments other than the most popular have been eliminated. Producers use IMDb as a tool to vet our credentials and experience, and I am concerned this new layout makes it harder if not impossible to view a comprehensive list of credits. Producers only look a page for a few seconds before deciding who to hire and what rate to offer, and this new layout cuts away most of the information. They are not going to hunt for removing filters or how to expand categories, etc. I'm sure someone that works for this company is going to recommend IMDb Pro for that, but believe it or not, not all producers or department heads have IMDb Pro. It's expensive and redundant. This new design is probably a move to sell more Pro memberships. Of course Amazon can do whatever they want, but jeez, this new layout is a giant bummer.

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60 Points

2 years ago

Sorry to be blunt but the new layout sucks. 

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60 Points

2 years ago

The new format is worse than the old. The thumbnails add nothing, but do detract from the information density on the page, requiring more scrolling to see an actor's entire credits list.

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70 Points

2 years ago

Hmm, the new design is ugly and confusing. Never change a winning team - bad decision you made. I bet you spent a lot money for this! I think everyone wants to have back the old design/layout.

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2 years ago

The redesign is awful mainly because everything is bundled together. Please keep TV, movies, shorts, documentaries, etc separate. Perhaps an option to merge them would be welcome but it's now a joyless task looking up movies that someone has been in. What a useless idea to come up with.

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@mark_moore_b1ciwswferya​ 

You can use the big striped down-arrow icon (the filter options) on the left to find the option separate by type.

For more about the new design, see

https://help.imdb.com/article/issues/GMWASETVPLJYXEZE?ref_=nm_launch_learn

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@blbadger​ 

I am hoping somebody creates a Chrome extension that will automatically convert the new bloated IMDb name pages to the basic info that most of us actually want to see, similar to "reference view" for IMDb title pages.

I have no idea if it's possible to do this, but I would love it if so. I spend a lot less time overall on name pages than on title pages, so this change doesn't completely destroy my use of IMDb. But every time I do visit a name page lately, it is a painful experience for all the reasons mentioned by others in this thread.

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The trick is to implement something that doesn't slow down the visitor's experience with the website or otherwise eat up too much network/computing resources. The stuff that I've created (monkey scripts) has only been designed to modify document object model (DOM) elements, not download and parse the raw HTML data of an entire web page.

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@bderoes​ Ah! I did do that but didn't click on "Project Type". Yes this works - thank you! Would be great if there was an option to separate documentaries too.

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@mark_moore_b1ciwswferya​ 

Yes this works - thank you! Would be great if there was an option to separate documentaries too.

There is -- in the screengrab below clicking the checkbox highlighted in red will exclude documentaries and clicking the genre filter highlighted in yellow will show only documentaries.

Hope this helps. 

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@Col_Needham​ Thanks! This is all starting to make sense now 😀

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@keyword_expert​ 

I am hoping somebody creates a Chrome extension

There's already at least one, and it is easy to find given it is mentioned elsewhere in this announcement thread.

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@Col_Needham​ Thank you. I will likely check that out, especially if I do have the need to visit name pages more often in the future.

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@Col_Needham​ 

Well, it is not exactly easy to find, and when I did find it (or to be exact, re-find it, since I had read that part before), I tried out the script and it does not work. So I repeat my request that somebody creates an actual Chrome extension (not just a script that requires special skills to even install). 

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@keyword_expert​ I've written some chrome plug-ins, but for scraping not for page modification.  I think much of the formatting could be modified while loading the page, but all the data isn't there.  For example, I miss the old Credits format where a few credits of a TV show were shown without needing a click, and if you want all there's a button for that to extend only that one show, not the entire list.  Sure, I get a new window with the new page for episode credits, but then I need more clicks for each season.  That's a lot of clicking, and most likely each is a request for more data from a server.  That means to simulate the old format with a chrome script would need a lot of clicking under the covers, and take too long.  Maybe someone smarter than me can come up with something though, especially if IMDB takes the next obvious step and converts the entire site.

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2 years ago

I checked my imdb page and all the info of the documentaries I have been in has disappeared. Is this a temporary glitch or will it be fixed? I assume this is happening to many pages and not just mine.

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@mark_moore_b1ciwswferya​ OK - it is there. I just had to click on "Self". An odd way of finding the info. Not sure why this has to be hidden until it's clicked on.

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@mark_moore_b1ciwswferya​  Thanks for the feedback.  This is not new behaviour though.  The old pages only opened with the first credit category open as well so if you had credits in categories other than "Self" the old pages required a click to view them too. 

See the post I am about to make below for a good tip on viewing all credits quickly. 

Hope this helps. 

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@Col_Needham​ Thanks for getting back. Yes you are absolutely right. I think clicking “Self” at the top is easily missed (a weird selective blindness kicks in on the internet) and most casual users will instinctively scroll down to find additional categories and info. Once you know how, it’s very simple but until then you will just assume there’s no more info to be found.

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2 years ago

A quick general update not in response to any specific new feedback.  First, thanks for all of the continuing feedback which is being read and weighed by the IMDb team.  A reminder as described elsewhere in the thread that as with all redesigns, we expect the vast majority of feedback here to be negative since the people enjoying the changes have little motivation to comment.  On the other hand: please be aware that the design was built in many rounds of consultation with multiple IMDb customer groups; we held an opt-in beta across the summer open to all customers and around one million people tried the design, resulting in complaints from less than one hundred of those one million;  we have made changes to the design based on feedback in that beta; the updated design has been available for over a month and has been used by more than one hundred million customers, resulting in even a smaller percentage of complaints (again less than one hundred people). We appreciate that all change is hard, but we encourage you to give yourself time to adjust to the expanded features of the new pages. 

The new name pages work across all device sizes; they are available in eight additional languages beyond English; they improve consistency with the rest of the site & our mobile apps; and they comply with the latest accessibility standards.  All this is to enable IMDb to better scale and grow our audience into the future. The full launch will enable a further enhancement in terms of even faster page loading speeds once we are able to activate client-side rendering.  We also have other enhancements in the pipeline which are now easier thanks to the new technology. 

A reminder to read the FAQ at https://help.imdb.com/article/issues/GMWASETVPLJYXEZE/ and do take the time to explore the significantly more powerful options available to sort and filter credits. In particular, see the "All topics" menu in the upper right of the page and the blue filter symbol under the "Credits" heading. All of the old features / sorts / links / subpages are still available.

For those people seeking a quick route to view all credits in the older IMDb design, we have renamed "Text view" to "All credits" for clarity in the "All topics" menu as shown here (see red highlight to activate the menu and yellow highlight to access the all credits link):

The equivalent "Text view of credits" label in the filter menu will be similarly updated soon. 

For much more detail on how and why the pages were updated, please see our replies across the eight pages of this thread; employee replies such as this one are tagged with a green badge and "Employee" under the name of the name of the person posting. 

Hope this helps.