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INTRODUCING: Updated IMDb.com Title page experience

We are excited to announce the launch of IMDb’s newly refreshed movie and TV show pages! The renewed page is meant to make your IMDb experience easy and enjoyable, and its design represents the diverse interests of global entertainment fans. The refresh reflects IMDb customer feedback and research designed to enhance entertainment content discovery and navigation.
Please note, we are gradually launching the new design to a selection of IMDb customers. If you do not yet see the design, we expect to make it broadly available in the weeks ahead. Thank you for using IMDb!
For more information, check out this Help article.
Geodacius
36 Messages
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648 Points
3 years ago
The previous design was almost perfect.
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nr925
1 Message
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60 Points
3 years ago
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.
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RichE
2 Messages
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70 Points
3 years ago
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.
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fallnmbers
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62 Points
3 years ago
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.
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zzzsai
4 Messages
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92 Points
3 years ago
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
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mpmp0
4 Messages
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208 Points
3 years ago
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?
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notmyname
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60 Points
3 years ago
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.
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bitflogger2020
4 Messages
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92 Points
3 years ago
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.
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bobsmith
2 Messages
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88 Points
3 years ago
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?
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jobo21k
6 Messages
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114 Points
3 years ago
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.
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Aurumfish
1 Message
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88 Points
3 years ago
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!!!
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Lobotomykid
10 Messages
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232 Points
3 years ago
Terrible new "design". Who the hell comes up with this crap?? IMDb was perfectly fine until corporate decided to delete forums and around that time it kept going downhill. I still use it regularly because you have sort of a monopoly but these changes are terrible. Keep on destroying this once great site for film aficionados.
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ACWells
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102 Points
3 years ago
Oh dear. In an effort, I assume, to keep us on each page for longer, they have rendered IMDb somewhat inaccessible to those of us who have processing disorders. I'm autistic and the immediate bombardment with huge images is extremely overwhelming and makes it incredibly difficult to filter out the information I need.
Perhaps if the images were moved to the bottom, and the most relevant information that everyone is always seeking: Episode guide, content advisory and cast and crew- were bumped to the top in a less overwhelming and plainer, easy to read format- like the old IMDb- it would improve accessibility no end.
I can't imagine how much mess this causes screenreaders who read top to bottom and now have to plough through a load of image descriptions before getting to the relevant episode/series information.
An option to switch back would be nice if you're not going to restore accessibility to us.
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DANE
4 Messages
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90 Points
3 years ago
The new layout is CRAZY
It's 10 screens wide. I have to use the bottom slider to read the remaining 90/95 percent.
Data is so sparse. Needs LOTS of scrolling......
I use Firefox. I see Chrome has the OLD (great) layout.
Is there a switch in Firefox to use the old layout ?
Truely DISGUSTED..... please help Dane
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BBogus
1 Message
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60 Points
3 years ago
😫 NOT HAPPY, DO THIS:
Go to Account Setting> Content Settings> at the bottom select, tick the box next to Contributors: Show reference view with full cast and crew (advanced view)
You now have reverted back to almost the same as the previous layout.
😁😊
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