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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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sdbland
1 Message
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62 Points
2 years ago
based on what i read above, there is no way to revert to the better design on the old pages? a preference?
can I at least filter some stuff out like videos? if I want stuff like that I should request it, not automatically there
that one thing kills the imdb app on say an iPad, auto plays video. I do not believe most people want that
maybe a account preference?
why do I now have to hit another link to see all of an artists roles? makes it harder to find things
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misterjrthed
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70 Points
2 years ago
Just the latest in the endless parade of "innovations" by people who change things because they're terrified their bosses will notice they have little real work to do.
Negative feature: harder to get the info I want. Positive features: none.
GET RID OF IT.
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Gmurph
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60 Points
2 years ago
Since the employee who has been commenting in here has said that relative to the user base, very few people have complained about these changes, I'd just like to add my name to the list of people who despise everything about this design change. It's true that you can't please everyone with a change. I can live with the overbearing large pictures and autoplay video that will now greet the top of the page if you just let me see all credits of an actor/director/cinematographer/whatever without having to click any other button to do so. Do not bury this stuff in a sub menu. Do not conceal half the credits under a See More button. This is a database. Not a photo gallery. Let us see the data. When I go to someone's IMDb page, I want to see all of their credits on that page, no searching/clicking required.
Also, as I tried to post this, I found that I need a separate IMDb Community Sign In, despite being signed into IMDb already. If you want to know why so few people relative the overall user base are complaining, this unfriendly process to post a complaint probably keeps a lot away.
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emilie__m
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60 Points
2 years ago
The previous design had horizontal scroll on an actor's past credits, which showed their past movies/tv show in a larger icon. This made it easier to quickly browse to see where you might know them from.
New design has tiny icons. Would also love an option to revert to the old design.
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Raphaelraven
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72 Points
2 years ago
So as far as I can tell, this updated format only occurs when you're looking at an *actor's* page, and not the page of a film. Why in the world would you take an effective interface, working perfectly at doing two jobs, perhaps even streamlining use of the site due to it's lack of complication. And then here we are now, changing half the site into a convoluted mess and leaving the previously successful code intact, just underutilized. What a joke.
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ypr265
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96 Points
2 years ago
If imdb reaaly cared about us users they would read the feedback here and realize with 99% negative feedback that there is something wrong with the new page layout and fire / replace the designers , in any other industry if engineers screwed up like this they would be fired !
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shockduck
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70 Points
2 years ago
can i revert back to the old look of imdb. the new look is terrible.
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Caveman
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62 Points
2 years ago
Damn this new design is horrible. It's just plain hard to use.
The images in the list of projects are too small to be truly useful and destroy the readability.
Why do I have to click "view all" when I probably wanted to view them all to begin with?
Did you increase the size of the photos? (Hint: People do not go to a movie database to view pictures, I go there for data).
"Known for..."? Yes.... there's a list of credits below that which gives EVERYTHING they did.
What were you thinking?
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bounce_out
12 Messages
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190 Points
2 years ago
New version is HORRIBLE for printing name pages!!!!!! It almost triples the amount of pages, ex. a name page that would normally be printing at 5 pages is now showing printing at 15 pages because it expands the images and video thumbnails aggressively...at $.10 a page, $.50 to $1.50 is excessive!!!!!!
Too bad on not having the option to switch back to the previous version, I do recall back in the day users were able to view different versions, I guess out with the old and in the new, as they say, phooy!
Please make the previous version also available, as performer pages are needed for printing for CDs (casting directors) and producers, etc!
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tbom
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62 Points
2 years ago
I think it would look better with a few tweaks.
- Leave off the pictures, it makes it look too noisy.
-Change the Titles to blue instead of black.
-Put "TV Series" behind the title instead of on a new line- maybe in parentheses.
-Expand the listing by showing the episodes and making them links. That will save a click and a popup.
A good layout example of this would be something like this.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0687189/fullcredits?ref_=nm_flmg_sort_text_view
Honestly, my eye can skim the old style a lot faster than the new "modern, clean presentation of information which works for casual users", as you call it.
Just my two cents.
T.
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WoodsOnImdb
2 Messages
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70 Points
2 years ago
I’m a longtime IMDb user. Only now just made an account to make this comment. This new redesign is terribly structured, visually it’s confusing and makes a once simple to navigate website visually incoherent. The first thought to enter my mind was “how and where is the info I’m looking for?” Many apps and websites change over the years and make horrible updates that ruin a fine thing. Please, reconsider your update, there was no need for this.
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strerd
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112 Points
2 years ago
Before your 'upgrade' where actors & actress were not jumbled up. I use imdb to search for actors & actresses by name & put them in my spreadsheet. Simple is better always.
. I don't like the way somebody changed the layout.
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rhgrafix
8 Messages
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166 Points
2 years ago
Is anyone from IMDb web design reading these posts?
The consensus is that we DO NOT LIKE the new format and
we want an option out!
Thanks
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F88OTA
1 Message
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66 Points
2 years ago
Thank you for more than 20 years, apparently you only understand the value of something when you lose it :(
Suggestions:
1. Please open the old and the new design as options for a while at the same time and then see from the statistics which one is used more. This would solve the previously commented problem of only a couple of hundred complains and hundreds of millions of users are happy.
2. Or open the old IMBD for paying customers. That could make some money for you.
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LittleMouse
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92 Points
2 years ago
As others have noted, the redesign is a catastrophic mess. If your goal was to get me to create an IMDB account (and thereby get my email address) in order to complain about this laughably bad redesign, then job well done. Who decided that breaking out credits into past and upcoming was preferable to a simple, easy to read list of all credits? It takes more clicks to get the information than it did before. There are redesigns that are frustrating at first and take time to get used to and then there is this. This is bad. Someone needs to take a step back, acknowledge the valid criticism the redesign is getting, swallow their pride and admit this redesign was perhaps change for the sake of change or someone trying to justify their job at IMDB.
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