INTRODUCING: New navigation on the IMDb website!

Hi Sarah,
I don't like the changes, there may be more, but right off the bat:
I like keyboard shortcuts, when I search and the possible selections come up I like to arrow down with my pinky, to the one I want and then press Enter; but, sadly this opens a new page, do I need to say a, "Worthless" new page, 'cause it is.  I have to left click on the selection to just go to that selection in the same page.  Then when I click on the preview it opens a new page, why?  Then I have to go back.  I like the old way where the preview opens in the same page and when done viewing, I just click the, "X" to close the preview and I'm ready for whatever I want next... lotta work for no reason.

Surprisingly IMDB, an Amazon company does a poor job of covering Prime (or other Amazon) video.  I'll look forward to when you bring that up to speed with the Netflix style.

You might be thinking everybody will get used to all these changes, cause there's a lot of negative responsee, and hey, IMDB is IMDB after all, but...
Mike

Never understand how making desktop sites more like mobile is supposed to be a good thing. Hiding things behind a menu button that then opens up full screen is pretty terrible design for desktop.

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled how i can access the upcoming drama series list ?.

In past easily access to upcoming drama series list from few months unable to access upcoming drama series list, how i can access the upcoming drama series list ?

I suggest to everyone who still cares about IMDB (it's creators obviously don't), to bookmark a random page from the site that still looks normal (such as the news page for example) and navigate from there, and that way you bypass the monstrosity which is the new home page. Or you can stick with it if you want epilepsy-inducing, flashing huge thumbnails to be your everyday experience. IMDB is apparently trying to be Netflix, but is there no mission statement for IMDB? It is a DATABASE for movies, not another streaming service or celebrity gossip website.  

Among the things that disappeared from the new home page are the box office numbers and the news segment. Now if you want these segments and you start on the home page you need to navigate to them specifically to view them. These informational segments have been replaced by the likes of FAN FAVORITES because we all know that FAN FAVORITES  is an essential part of any movie database.





 

wow imdb.com should be now funeral.com. never thought i would hate black that much. great job independent magnificent ultra modern artistic web designers. you clearly reflected your minds.

Dear imdb-Team,

please consider the following feedback:

1) On mobile devices (e.g. iPad) you have to go to the bottom to hit the search icon and then you have to go to the top of the screen to actually type something into the search field. Regarding UX this is quite annoying....

2) On the new desktop design I'm missing the News segment with an overview of movie & celeb news. Is it just me that I don't see it? If it's gone, is there any way to bring it back?

Thank you!

Another feature no one asked for. How about the new genres?

I find this new navigation design to be awful. The old design seems to have been designed for us to find what we needed. This new design seems to be aimed at the masses with very short attention spans. Big and "Flashy". The new design makes it harder to get the news articles. You now have to go through news by category (TV, Movies, Celebrities, etc....), taking much longer. It used to be all together unless you selected a category to filter them. 
There are many other reasons I dislike this new design, but I'll stop here.

Very unhappy with the new format. I am a longtime daily user and very active with reviews and votes. Big step backwards with new design.

The only two features for which I checked the IMDB homepage have been buried and/or removed entirely.

To see what's "In theaters" now I have to scroll past: news I frankly never cared about, "what to watch" suggestions clearly tailored for someone else, "fan favourite" showing the six movies everyone knows about already, video news I also never watch, "What's streaming" (which could be vaguely useful if it wasn't heavily biased towards amazon).

The "coming soon" section is in an even worse spot. While on mobile is just below "in theaters" (so still past all that junk sections), on desktop it's been replaced by trailers. Which don't seem to list all that's actually coming soon.

All in all, the time I'll spend on the homepage will be surely reduced.
And since the size of every section of the homepage has been increased, there'll be almost zero chances that I may accidentally see an interesting news or video while I look for the showtimes, as there can only be one section on the screen at any time.

I really don't like the new look. It's too dark and all the images are too large. It's extremely inefficient!

I would like to suggest to get rid of the slider at the top. This because research and statistics show that 89% of visitors click on the first image/topic of a slider. Sliders used to be popular in the past, but not anymore in nowadays website UX design. If you Google on this topic, you will see lots of links to info to underline my statement.

This new web browser for IMDB is terrible. With the old version everything was all neat and organized and I could easily access anything form the main page, but now it's all a jumbled mess and all i can find is what new trailers there are and whats popular. I can't even find the tab for what movies are coming out each week. IMDB if you're reading this please give us, people who have an account, the choice to choose between using the old web browser and the new web browser like some other websites have done. thank you

Today the X to close the Menu screen is Black on the already Black background. Only found it because I knew it should be there. Please change it to a non-dark color, or reverse the background to light, with black letters for the menu items.

I'm using Chrome 79 on Windows 10.