IMDb Name Page Redesign

This update is freakin' AWFUL.  So much wasted space. I think Wikipedia is going to be my go to from now on. IMDB has consistently ignored what it's users want.

On mobile phones, if we want to see the name pages like this when we click at "All Credits":

we need to type "filmotype" in the address bar every time

or the pages will look the same as on the desktop (this means unreadable on phones)

Is this permanent or will something change soon?

I hate the "new version" page layout. Is there any way to switch back to the old version. The new layout is too confusing, and difficult to find what I'm looking for.

You might have watched a production from a specific person and you are checking their IMDB page to find out more stuff, but when you click a random film you had already watched it. This could be easily avoided if IMDB added a simple feature that would place your rating next to the productions you already watched. For instance:

None of these responses tell how to get back to the original good view.  Please help!

Whoever decided to lower case everyone's job title on IMDb with the new page design should be fired.

As someone who works in the film industry, not only does this look completely wrong, but it just feels so unprofessional for a website that is displaying credits of people who work in the film and TV industries.

I've used IMDb for 20+ years.  Please change this.  The design is nice, but let's make sure everything is titled appropriately and as per modern day grammatical sense when referring to people's job titles.

@Col_Needham , the previous version is user friendly and flawless in terms of printing name pages...the images and thumbnails were downsized, not excessive, all the credits, 5 User Lists, some Related News links, Known For, etc., all able to fit within an acceptable amount of pages, not overblown images, which can take an entire page for just a photo...here's an example, printing on the new version, shows the current name and the last clicked page, the other 4 clicked page images aren't viewable, but those 2 images are an entire page, again, just those two images...taking up an entire page isn't justified.

Since printing name pages is critical for our team, I'm willing to pay an extra $50.00 for Pro per year, for access to the previous version, which again was extremely printer friendly.

I would hope that IMDb/Amazon wouldn't turn down money that a user is willing to send your way.

Absolutely terrible change. Seriously, who thought this was a good idea?

This new layout is objectively poorer in every conceivable way. 

All IMDb needs to do is look at the feedback from real users on this post, which shows overwhelming dislike.

No doubt the project managers and higher-ups will brush off the near-universal criticism of this awful and needless redesign, and convince themselves that they're investing in the future of the brand or some such nonsense.

why does it take three full pages to get to the list of credits with this design? in what possible way could that be an improvement to the site? who wants a featured gallery to be the first thing under the person's info banner? and if a link to their photos page is in that banner, why is the sidescrolling images section also before the credits?

filmography is still directly below the video preview & bio section on the app, so why make the website different?

Reason: If you need just plain written information, this is the page setting of choice. Plus, searching for a work the person was involved in, you might be unsure if the work in question was a TV movie, a movie, or an episode of a series. Having all entries in sight allows you to use your browser's search function to find the work in question.

To get all those information you quite tediously first have to select the page,  wait until it is complete (incl. all sorts of pictures and movies included), scroll til the three-lines-pictoram under the headline "Credits", click it, and click "View all credits" in the pop-up window that appears.

It would be a great help to get the desired information immediately.

Kind regards

Wieland Samolak

Option in settings to switch to old format please?

Sorry, but this "improvement" is just...not. It's clunky, unintuitive, and not at all user friendly. No one wants to read a whole other page on "how to use" your site. Formerly you could see everything at a glance, or with a bit of scrolling if the credits list was long. You even have to search for the bio link now.

hi,

i discovered the last redesign of the "Name page". After the sad new design of the title page, it is -again" a desappointment, another one. i really don't understand what coder-designer have in their head.

Did they visit imdb website on 8k huge monitor with super mouse roll wheel and a healhy thumb finger to scroll all the day ?

look at the old design :

https://postimg.cc/JsKMzKvL

look at the new one (sorry for the bad collage, i'm so angry i lost my patience to merge the screenshot)

https://postimg.cc/H8QzpL00

now, to see a regular topic (see what the red arrow is pointing to), i have to scroll down more & more....

what it take 3 screen before,  now tooks more than 4 screens !

do i need to  buy a bigger screen  ?do i need to buy a tablet with big screen to visit imdb ?

no ! Look at all the white spaces in the new deisgn ! what a very bad  art-UX-design  work  we have here now ! very bad work !

You can even see some bad scrollbar in several DIV element !

I wish to adress you my "best regards", but i'm very desappointed. in 30y of website visits, i saw all the longtime website falling back one by one due to bad redesign.  There is only ONE (one in 30years) who successed to the redesign ( discogs ) .

I would like to express my sincere condolences to all visitors that have been condamned to see imsb pages died one by one....

This function war abandoned during the second last redesign of imdb.com.

An example for its benefits: Open the page of Taika Waititi. Scroll down until the entry "Boy" of 2010 appears. Now, most likely several movies with the title "Boy" will have been produced in 2010. And indeed, changing the page to "All credits" ("Credits (text only)") changes the movie's production year to "2010/I", meaning that this is the first (or most important or whatever) of several movies called "Boy" produced in 2010. (Question: Why is this most important information hidden when the page is not in "Credits (text only)" mode?)

Clicking on "Boy" leads you the the movie's page where it is named as just "Boy (2010)". Before the second last redesign of imdb.com the title was "Boy (2010-I)". Without this most vital information you'll never learn that there were several movies of that title in that year and which of those movies is the one in question.

I can only pray that you will re-esablish this, as said before, most vital detail in any mode of any page of anybody who was involved in that movie and, most important, on the movie's page as well.

Kind regards,

Wieland Samolak

What can we do to have our old and preferred version back again? Just look at the comments, and how many users are saying they agree with those who are angry and disgusted that these changes have been made. And, to try to explain the changes and finish with ‘hope this helps’ is infuriating and patronising. We don’t want explanations. We want this decision to ruin IMDb reversed!  

Many people have included in their posts here that few are praising the new page design. I hope not to generate a lot of comments with what I'm about to say. (Let me first admit that I use an ad blocker, so my experience is more streamlined as a result.)

I just discovered a new feature that I like a lot. When filtering the person's credits, the Project Type grouping works for any job category. So now I can look at choreography (Miscellaneous) credits by TV vs Movie. Here's an example (Miriam Nelson).

Granted, that can also be done with the filmosearch feature, but not as easily, and the job title is not displayed with each project. That matters because choreographer is lumped into Miscellaneous Crew, which also includes Stage Director and other jobs a choreographer might have held.

Also, the filmosearch version includes both TV series and TV episodes separately, which has always bothered me, especially when the person was on a later episode of a long-running show, and their filmosearch credits list the series long before the episode when sorting by release date. (filmosearch also inflates their credit count because of the series inclusion.) BTW, I know that I can filter out the series credits altogether, but sometimes a person is only listed at the series level.

And in filmosearch, each type of TV title is a separate category, so you don't just click once for TV. Miriam has 5 TV categories.

Other things I like about the new design:

+ being able to add a person to my lists directly from the Name page.

+ the Expand Category links at both the top and bottom of the list of credits, which saves time loading the credits when you think ahead

+  the information icon on each title, which provides a lot of info, potentially saving me a trip to the title page. We can even add the title to a list from the pop-up!

+ the fact that most links can be opened in a New Tab.

+ being able to filter credits by genre on the Name page

Sure, there are things I don't like, and I've posted about most of them already. But for me, the new features far outweigh them. Here are most of my negatives, including some new ones that I hadn't reported yet:

- that I have to click 3 different spots (deselect the 3 pre-chosen categories) to get all the credits in the new format (I know about the All Credits view)

- that I have to scroll within the filter pop-up to access the link for View All Credits; I've suggested it belongs at the top

- that I have to click an arrow to scroll through the person's categories (on the same line as the filter button); I preferred the old-view listing all the categories at once

- that the year and info icon is so far to the right of the title, although it's good that the years are all lined up. But why not put them (and the (i)) as the first thing on the line, esp. since they're a fixed length.

- the separation of the "popular" links in the All Topics menu above the categorized ones. (Don't like it on the title page either.) My eye goes directly to the columns of choices.

- would be nice to have a jump-link at the top of the Name page to go directly to the Credits section

- that the Seen feature isn't in the All Topics menu

- I'm forgetting at least one other item that I've posted about here.

Enough for now.