INTRODUCING: Updated IMDb.com Title page experience

hate this look really hate it extensions now don`t work like plex to web u have messed this up if this don`t revert i`ll be going rotten tomatoes biggest error u made imdb change it back plz everyone plz comment and petition to get rid of this new look just comment CHANGE IT BACK IF ENOUGH People do this they might listen

Please change it back, PLEASE!!!!!!

I HATE this new design. Ever hear the old saying? If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Harder to navigate. Less info on front page. Just bad in every way.

why do companies have to change everything every few years. 

To quote IMDB themselves.

The refresh reflects IMDb customer feedback and research designed to enhance entertainment content discovery and navigation.

My hope is they will again listen to customer feedback of this thread and revert or adjust some of their changes.

Constructive feedback

Adjust the TOP CAST.

Make the Top Cast banner simular to Video & Picture.

1 Line that we can expand or scroll to the left.

As many has pointed out.  Having to scroll for 30 seconds past a hoard of faces just to get to reviews and what was before easy to get info is one of the factors killing the page.

IMDB should def hire a prof web designer cause this new version is a total disaster which they rolled out even when its unfinished.

I don't even know where to start...can't find a single good thing about it...

-No dark theme
-Everything is just too big with a lot of empty space so much more scrolling is needed compared to the older version of the imdb website

-Trailer preview thumbnails are often very low (pixelated) quality

-Everything loads much slower than before

-Actors thumbnails in circle frames WTF?!

-Can't even rate with a mouse over and single click, must click then wait for a popup window to load then click a rate no. then click the rate button...epic fail

-Same with "More like this" section...gotta press info button, then wait for a popup window to load and often scroll in a tiny window...wow...

-And more wasted empty space etc etc...

Nobody asked for this, the old version of the website was just fine with all the info we needed which we could get without loosing additional time to get it.

Pull back this disaster or give the users the option to choose between website versions.

Guys, I have a real problem here. The easy, nice, rather perfect old IMDb layout is running on my computer, on Firefox. And the bad, impractical, rather scary new IMDb layout is forcing itself on my computer, while google chrome is on. Now, for God's sake, how can this happen? And the more important question is: If that new one is the fate, how can I get to the old one???

Made a photo edit of my idea of some simple changes to the UI. Not a perfect design, but a quick toss-together for demonstration.

The original design:

And here's the edited design:

Better space utilization. Drop-down list menu. Video playback without moving to a new page. Browse videos within the video player. Simple photo access, expands by clicking thumbnail view. Doesn't leave page. Features user review on the main view. Expandable story text. Quick links to pages.

It's still very big and could be further improved. But like I said, it's just a quick photo edit to showcase simple (but very effective) changes.

I extended this philosophy further down and tossed together a quick example of better organisation. The focus here is layout, the order of boxes and categories is semi-random. I also focused on tweaking the current UI rather than redesigning and inserting new UI ideas. There's a lot more that can be done but this just goes to show how little you need to change to make the UI so much better.

Modern web pages adapt to screen width so mobile compatibility is not an excuse. IMDb is just really outdated in how they design UI.

And yes, I'm a fan of dark mode. :P

The cast and crew is expandable as well as categories. Having cast on a single row makes it much easier to search for an actor instead of having to look back and forth between two rows. Having crew on an additional row works because when you are looking for a person, you usually either look for either cast or crew. About a doubling in information per square area.

I put Box Office, Details, Technical specs, FAQs etc. in the sidebar. It's a huge waste of space to have them blown up in the main row. Less scrolling.

Increased information density in general, still inefficient but it's just a super quick and simple showcase. The order of boxes could be customizable. They should be collapsable (save last UI state). It's typical IMDb that you need to load a new page to do stuff, this is unecessary.

If I were to really put some time and effort into this there's a lot of other improvements that could be done. But as you can see, just some simple reorganisation, layout improvement and clean-up makes a huge difference.

Here's the edited UI:

Here's the original UI:

IMDB website did look better, with info much easier to read/find until recently.  Is there a way in the settings to go back and not use this needlessly difficult layout?

I'm all for trying new things, but there really should be a way to toggle through options like "themes".  Im going to just get my info from wiki or other websites if that is the only way to avoid this new change, but hopefully that is not the case.

New is not always better and IMHO this isn't

Please add the "Genres" section to the top of the page as it was in the old interface. That is also the most crucial part of the information regarding the tv show or movie, it should appear on top of the page along with the rating and title.

BEHOLD THE NEW LAYOUT!

Resistance is futile!

forums like this are supposed to be informative and EASY to find your way around and information should be easily found with a simple glance NONE of what we are presented with at the moment ISN'T 

Why does it take an eternity to load my rating on a movie and whether it's on the watch list or not? This happens since the new "improved" design and it's the same on multiple devices and browsers so i think it's not a problem on my end.