Title pages — new version available for sneak peek

The major difference i noticed was similar title tabs. it's a useful feature. the suggestion of similar titles. Plus, unnecessary information is highlighted, I mean to say cast info, not many want to know about the cast, some do, but that too of main characters. So, I think you should minimize the size of it, keep it but make it a drop-down to look for more.

I simply do not understand the current fascination with round photos. The pictures for the cast look terrible and, in some cases, do not even include the person they are meant to portray. Richard Bright is a horse? 

Not really a fan of the new layouts for the Title pages, etc.  Why not give each user an option of which site layout to use?

It needs to have similar movies window as it used to so we can check sequels, prequels and similar content with easy

My suggestions about the new design:

1) Please put the movie year on the right side, next to the movie name, with the same font size. It will be nice to be in brackets.

I really don't like year under the title with such small fonts. You can barely see it. Movie year is important!

Also I consider the movie title fonts to be to big in the new design.

P.S. I like the new design, the responsive scaling and the fact the width of the page is bigger

In the new version, I hope you will include for sure, the chapter MORE LIKE THIS, which I consider VERY helpful, because it offers sugestions to similar movies or TV shows. It helps a lot in various searches.

When I Share to Twitter it used to say "Title (year)" now it says "Check out this link...

Something is wrong with the new layout. 

Please change it.

 

     It was always great to see the 'Release Date' of the movie up beside the 'Title of the Movie'. You kept have the year the movie was released so why drop the day and month?? Now it is really disconcerting and not handy to have it so far down the web page! Really not pleased, hope this is 'not set in stone' and you may reconsider moving it back up near the title of the movie.

Milt

Please do not reveal episodes summary upfront! 

I am currently viewing "In the name of the rose" - a murder mystery - at episode 6 and wanted to look up an actors name. And even before the cast list I saw the synopsis for episode 8! Spoiling the series!

If anything change order to show episode 1 - NO MORE! -, or rather hide episode resumes all together upfront...

I often try to limit viewing IMDB just because the cast list shows number of episodes upfront (again revealing/indicating stuff like who might be killed off, is a short part etc) and now you gone so far to make TV series a one episoder thing?!?! "Just see the ending - IMDB reveals the rest for you" could be this designs' new slogan

The add-to-list function continues to behave poorly.

When you make changes to what list(s) the title belongs to, close the dialog and reopen it, the changes are _not_ reflected until you browser-reload the page. (I've also tried this with extensions turned off.)

apparently no one else cares but if you guys are gonna waste your time on a redesign, can you throw in a dark mode please? i am extremely sick of websites trying to blind me.

also the two-dimentional cast layout is annoying. if i make the page narrower, it goes back to one-dimentional but horizontal and therefore even more stupid because it requires more input to scan.

your lists used to be one-dimentional and vertical. and they were good. keep them that way. 

Hi there!

I am very disappointed with the new look!

Well, if you want to drastically reduce the amount of information on the movie page, then you succeed!

All information are there but now we need an extra click minimum for almost everything.

You can't have same page for desktop and mobile, simply because desktop is 10 times larger and what is most important, desktop is horizontal and phone is not!!!

Also, old desktop version on wide screen monitors has 50% unused space if  pages are not zoomed, but if it is, then there is 30% less information on screen! Use this 50% of wide screen and you'll get best web page on the planet Internet!

Stay cool,

best regards,

Damir

I find the IMDb mobile app on iOS a much more pleasurable experience than I do the web view on a desktop computer. One of the main reasons: the cast member thumbnails are optically much larger on mobile, making it easier to spot faces I'm searching for when digging into a cast. But in addition to the small photos on the desktop view, there is also a dearth of readable text presentation on the desktop view. It's anachronistic to the design sensibilities and pragmatic realities of decades past. The font size is too small for today's larger, higher-density screens (as it is for my aging eyes). The general information density is a bit tight too! It has been debunked many times over, the old wives' tale that everything must be "above the fold". People do not mind scrolling. Make the info more hierarchal, give it more air, and more pleasurable to read (much like the mobile app is). You can still have the same amount of info and functionality within the desktop app, but it just doesn't need to feel like reading a 19th-century newspaper on microfiche anymore. 

Please, please, don't put black backgrounds with white letters as the only option: for us with migraine or epilepsy this is deadly because the high contrast in the eyes is painful and even dangerous. I won't be able to use IMDB anymore if you don't offer the option to revert this and use a more friendly white background with black letters.

Thank you for your understanding.

I'm sorry, but this new interface is a thing of horror. Some poor soul's put a lot of misguided effort into making the website abhorrent like this, so I may as well put some work of my own into typing up the identifiable issues I have with it other than the fact that nowadays looking at a title page triggers my gag reflex. As a laptop Chrome user, here's what bothers me:

1 - Massive black banner at the top of the page. On the original title page one can instantly see a title's full poster, summary, director, stars, Prime Video availability, and a whole bunch of other junk on the side without scrolling. On the new version the poster and trailer thumbnail is chopped and pretty much only the title information and average rating are visible because of that humongous invasive species of a banner or whatever near the top, which would be filled with a lurid spray of ads if not for your friendly neighborhood AdBlock. Good thing I'm using AdBlock, too; I turned it off for a sec and the resulting commercial whirlwind dropped me into the Blade Runner universe, with dancing hologram ads and titanic logos decimating the sides of buildings.

2 - The "Your Rating" feature takes a full two seconds to populate. So if I want to see my little blue star rating for "Jaws" at the top of the page which, by the way, is one of the only useful pieces of data one can see before scrolling, I've gotta sit and wait. A user's personalized rating populates the instant the page loads on the old interface.

3 - Too much use of horizontal space. With the old interface, everything important was held within a top-to-bottom bar which is really only maybe half the webpage's full width; the space to either side was either empty, filled with ads and garbage (or just "More to explore" with AdBlock on), or relegated to be used for less important things like related user polls and lists. This maybe sounds a bit wasteful, but it actually kept everything the user should be seeing to one column in the center of the page so they didn't have to dart their eyes around in search of, say, the Metascore which in the new interface is shoved off to the side like it's useless datum. This tall, skinny bar also kept the page from having to expand or contract when the browser window's size was altered, such as if I'd wanted to shrink the window to only fill half of my desktop.

4 - The "Cast" section of the page is gargantuan and takes up 150% as much page space as the original did. Also, the writers and directors for the title are repeated under this freaking huge cast listing, making it eat up even more room with information which is already present farther up. Other sections of the page have similar problems and are far too large.

5 - Sometimes when I click on "Trivia," it takes me to a new page filled with a whole new set of horrors, the greatest of which is the total absence of the "interesting/uninteresting" feature which made the old trivia page feel interactive. Another time I clicked on my user profile and was taken to a lifeless simulacrum which was all dolled up with the new interface. Is this intentional? I couldn't get back to it. I hope it was just a site glitch, because the ghastly spectacle I saw that day was almost more repugnant than I can describe, and I just finished watching "Raw" for the first time.

6 - Almost the entire page is blindingly white. It physically hurts to look at with any kind of brightness emanating from one's computer screen. Worse still, the top of the page is jet-black, so it's like a freaking booby trap since you start at the top and it's all dark and then you scroll down into the paralyzing glow and it feels like you just witnessed St. Elmo's fire. If off-white shades were used as in the original interface, I'd probably be able to see other objects in my room after staring at my computer screen.

All this and the point of these changes is to make IMDb more "mobile-responsive?" Did somebody forget about the IMDb app? There's no need to use a mobile browser to access the site.