Redesign of the world's most popular movie network IMDB

IMDb, a magical website, for those who do not know the site, IMDb literally means: "Internet Movie Database (Internet Movies databases)." In fact, IMDB is one of the most popular and authoritative websites in the world to learn about movies, television and stars. As for the most popular, I mean: More than 160 million visits per month.

There are several main visitors to IMDB:

• Film and television program enthusiasts;

• Enthusiasts and hardcore film lovers;

• People who find relevant information in order to pass their leisure time;

• Showbiz industry personage.

Our thinking about IMDB and the motives for redesigning

When my team and I first decided to redesign the IMDB, we wanted to do something meaningful, and the redesign was not just to make the site look good. That's why we spend so much time thinking about it.

The name "Internet Movie Database" sounds great! He marks an authority, but what is a real database? What exactly does this website have? Basically, from this point of view, the most attractive place for IMDB should be his comprehensive film.

This means that each individual data is very important!

The problem is that larger databases can lead to more opportunities to lose data or to forget some of the most valuable data. Well, it's a problem for the movie. Film is a work of art and we cannot lose the data associated with it.

Then, what kind of movie has the value of collection? What can be done to keep them from coming to life after the films that are submerged in the vast number of films?

Another question, now that I've come to IMDB, I'm looking for trailers, reviews, hits and news from all kinds of actors, directors and producers, more focused on entertainment and consumption than on a movie pursuit.

In the future, I hope that the users who come to IMDB will be able to enjoy the archive in the archives, looking for the video guide.

Therefore, the goal of our redesign is to:

• Reasonable arrangement of the movie order in the database to prevent the database from becoming a mess, so that users can easily find those super movies and TV programs;

• Let everyone put more attention on the film itself, rather than the media report, let IMDB return to the most simple appearance;

• Establish the authority and legitimacy of IMDB.

IMDB Home

The most important feature of the homepage is to provide the latest news about the movie circle, which is why we want to put the right message in the right place.

The main purpose of browsing IMDB is to look at the latest trailers, or to see what movies are on the line recently. So we put all this information on the first screen of the homepage so we don't have to take the time to search.

We arrange the contents of the homepage according to the importance:

A player with a sizable plate area plays a trailer, followed by a list of the most fresh charts and news stories showing which films are being released.

We also optimized the "Feature List", which allows users to have more communication and discovery in the site.

IMDB Homepage-Redesign Concept Map

IMDB's search function

When we redesigned the IMDB search function, we used a lot of time to test it. We hope our search results can be displayed instantaneously, which is very useful for the database and, of course, intuitive.

After research, we think that the search function such as MySpace is really enough. If it can search for music, it must also be able to search for movies.

We want the search page to overlay some content, such as: when we enter content each time, the real-time search bar will be in groups to display the search results.

IMDB search Function-re-design concept map

IMDB Discovery function

When we think about this feature, we think about what Spotify does for music, and we want to do the same for movies on the most important movie sites.

This feature must be simple and appealing and give valuable information in a very short time.

IMDB Discovery Function-Re-design concept map

IMDb Detailed Content List

This page should be the most challenging part. It provides a great deal of information, and we cannot drastically erase them.

Therefore, we have gathered this information and have developed six groups:

• Special effects

• Comments and recommendations

• Related News

• Media

• Video

• pictures

Then you need to prioritize.

The principle to follow is whether we want to know the extent of the movie before we roll to the next movie.

We still want to put this information in the first screen of this page.

IMDB detailed content List-redesign concept map

Summarize

We enjoy the redesign of the site, we know more about design and film in the process, and the most important of these is our team work and brainstorming.

Even if this is not a real project, we will encourage you to think and solve problems in the same way, because it is really a good way to improve yourself and finish a great project.

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