INTRODUCING: Updated IMDb.com Title page experience

The previous design was almost perfect.

This redesign is shockingly bad. This used to be reference site. I don't know how anyone can be expected to get sufficient information from this layout. It will actually result in me using the site less.

HORRIBLE new page.  Old one was perfect, all the info I needed/wanted easy to find quickly.


Now, HUGE, takes up my whole 27" monitor.  I thought I'd accidentally used my browser's zoom feature but no.  Even used the zoom smaller and it's still the same awful layout.


Any chance I can have the old interface to use instead?  LOTS easier/more friendly to use.


If you want GIANT stuff on the page for folks who only use 5 or 6" phone screens, set your site to have a mobile layout that's separate and dedicated to that, don't force people using regular computer to suffer.

Everything is SO big now, I'm using the zoom out feature on my browser to make it more skimmable. Nine times out of ten, I'm visiting IMDB to view who's on the cast of a series or film I'm watching. Now I have to do so much more scrolling to find that information (or click Cast & Crew at the top to see the full list, which is also not what I want). I've never wanted to see videos or stills ahead of basic info about the series or film, like cast, synopsis, etc.

I guess if everything's going to stay gigantic in scale, the two-column layout for cast makes some amount of sense, but I prefer the single column. Again, it's much easier to skim that way. The cast list has long been too small compared to other elements on the page (photos and videos, mostly), so making that bigger wasn't necessarily a bad idea, but everything scaled up this way is obnoxious and too visually busy.

And those are just my gripes about the desktop experience. On mobile, I have to scroll a third of the way down the page to find the cast, then sideways through cast listing to see more than 2.5 people. It's ridiculous and difficult to use. The sideways scrolling is glitchy, too, and often ends up scrolling partway up or down the page as I'm trying to move through the cast.

The new design layout is very complicated to use.  Please rollback to the original layout.  Its easy to consume and use.

I even created a petition to show how much I hate the new layout.. http://chng.it/P96Fm77x 

I'm reminded of that very successful businessman who stated something to the effect of, rather than ask customers what they want, simply TELL them what they want--which explains why I've never been an Apple user. I find the new design "too much." It wasn't broken, why try to "fix" it? Will I stop using IMDB? No, I think it's the best at what it does. But will I continue to constantly give unqualified recommendations of IMDB to everyone I know? No. Options are always best to me--why not offer them?

This is maybe unimportant for most people but it annoys me a lot.

I tend to open things in new tabs and look at them later. Now let's say I'm taking a look at a title page.

I see an interesting trivia item and want to right click on trivia section and open it in a new tab. While the whole trivia box is clickable and its cursor shows it as such, I can't right click there and open it in new tab.

Same applies to Quotes, Connections, Crazy credits, Soundtracks and some other boxes as well.

Yes, text on top such as "Trivia", "Quotes", "Connection" right-clickable but while the whole box is clickable you want to right click right there and open it in new tab without trying to "aim" the correct clickable text. It's very annoying for me.

I know in previous version we had to click "See more" as well but in previous version the whole box was not clickable with a special cursor. In this version whole box is clickable but not whole box is right clickable, it's a psychological thing, when you see whole box as clickable you don't want to try to find the correct place to right click.

Got hit with the new version today.  There are a very few things I like but it is in general much worse than the previous version. 

The unforgivable:  auto play videos when visiting episode pages.  I don't need trailers when I'm wanting to look up an episode. 

The bad: information is no longer logically organized.  Too much space between items.  It looks like it was designed by a graphic designer who has no idea about usability.

The OK:  I appreciate that there are now head shots around the character/actor listings.

All in all I much preferred the previous version.  I'll be switching over to tmdb in the future.

I'm not impressed with the new design. Not that makes any difference to the creators or anyone else. The other design would have been greatly improved by eliminating the huge advertisements and unwanted videos.

Laurel Gonzalez, Tampa, FL

I'm not impressed with the new design. Not that it makes any difference to the creators or anyone else. The other design would have been greatly improved by eliminating the huge advertisements and unwanted videos. Laurel Gonzalez, Tampa, FL

I apologize, when IMDB first opens, it doesn't impress, but...after a search for a movie title, everything worked and looks great. AND the huge advertisements and unwanted videos did not appear May 26, 2021. Looks good.

New is not always better.  New is a piece of crap.  Fire the jerks who dreamed this up.  Fire the supervisor and manager too.  Fire the person who reviewed the feedback results and ignored all feedback.  Somebody/people appear to have dreamed up a project so as to justify their positions/jobs.  Programmed my first computer (Univac 1050) in 1966.  Retired from IT 2002.  Still run 4 pc's 24/7.  If it looks crappy on the face its probably crappy inside.

Like every recent and terrible redesign, IMDB feels even more like a mobile app, and as this web trend has altered other sites I used to frequent because they've pretty much cornered the market in what it is they do, I've stopped looking for information about entertainment. Not entirely, but it's a fraction of the amount.

The pictures are gigantic, and flashy visuals take priority over now minimalist text and information. It takes longer to scroll through, with less info immediately available on the page. This is partly because there is so much more white space as it displays on my computer now that it feels like massive voids exist between each bit of info, but also because the spacing and location of that info is abysmal. I don't care what data they have on the human eye's relationship with UI/UX from top ranked university research endeavor, this is fundamentally horseѕhit.

When I finally get to what most people are looking for when they visit IMDB, the cast list, I can no longer glance down a vertical list of actor names because they are spaced out in two side by side columns of big circle pictures of actors, whose faces are poorly framed because those pictures were never intended to be cropped for a social media style circle. My eyes dart all over the page trying to read visual information, and straining to do so even when looking directly at any part of it.

Rottentomatoes and Metacritic are distant memories with no adequate replacement, thanks to recent overhauls very much like this one. I disliked all of the changes they made in previous years too, just as I did IMDB when it became more stuffed with pictures and videos, but this recent trend feels especially drastic and desperate.

Making the pain of this more intense, each redesign of this type comes also with an PR writeup about how they heard our calls for a cleaner, simpler experience, proudly framing their hard work as directly incorporating user requests and feedback into an exciting new vision that NOBODY WANTS. I've seen no evidence of a human being outside a graphic design department indicate anything positive about the direction of these sites.

I'm horrified, and here's why:

As other sites have done this, I've given up on visiting. It's too hard to navigate, and too hard to look at. I'm simply less informed, and as I no longer have a relationship with these databases, I'm losing interest in movies, television, games, comics, journalism... I'm consistently disappointed by the world of information that surrounds them, which makes the art itself less interesting to engage with.

What I still, after years, don't understand is: Why does this continue?

How does the data not show that with each overhaul, engagement slips, and if the data shows engagement rising, how could that possibly be the case when so much negative feedback exists asking them not to do the things they are now doubling down on. It's forced through each time, with each site. How are they not knowingly poisoning their own wells?

Take a moment to ask yourself why I would ever, under any circumstances want the names of 10 actors to occupy my entire screen. 

Did you do it? Did you ask yourself that question? If so, you have now spent more time thinking about the user experience than whoever designed this layout for you.

This is amateurish garbage, and it's embarrassing for a site of this stature. IMDB is an information source, and you seem to be designing with the intent of making it as difficult as possible to access the information we need. 

Until this is updated or reverted, I'll just have to use Wikipedia to find information on movies, I guess. It's a terrible layout for that purpose, but still nowhere near as bad as this. This is unusable.

Очень-очень плохо. От белых букв на черном фоне ужасно устают глаза. Уже через 10 секунд нахождения на сайте от дискомфорта хочется закрыть страницу. Ничего невозможно найти. Огромные картинки и мелкий текст. Неинформативно и неудобно. Как вернуть старый дизайн? Какой садист придумал? Мои глаза болят!!!