This design looks so cheap to me, it's just a bunch of random covers, there is no information about the movies presented in any way, the covers are way too big and take up an inordinate amount of space and there is nothing breaking up sections, design is just so fucking dumb now, fuck mobile

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screenshot of the hbo max web site, it's just large screen shots of movie covers, not even the official movie covers just random ones some that look like shit, it looks really cheap
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[โ€“] 142 points 3 months ago (21 children)

UI's for movie streaming services are not designed to help you find something to watch. They are designed to keep you "engaged", which means in the platform and not realizing that the pool of actually interesting things is about as deep as a puddle. Everything about streaming sites' design is user hostile and this is a classic example of that.

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  • [โ€“] 24 points 3 months ago (18 children)

    Isn't Jellyfin the same design as all the streaming platform and they have nothing to gain for keeping you engaged?

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  • [โ€“] 71 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Yeah but they don't have highly paid UX design teams, so they're probably just copying design choices on the basis that they're trying to offer people a similar experience they can own.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

    That's bullshit. These are basic design principles they teach in every single design school in the world. You don't need "highly paid design teams" you just need someone with some education.

    And this design philosophy has apparently invaded every single corporation on Planet Earth, so I really have no fucking idea where designers are even employed lately.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    We await your contributions to the project (you won't ever contribute)

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    And this design philosophy has apparently invaded every single corporation on Planet Earth, so I really have no fucking idea where designers are even employed lately.

    That's because they employ you and then force you to do bullshit things

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  • I bought ice trays recently that had no way to stack, and literally shattered the second time I tried removing ice. Ice trays. ICE. FUCKING. TRAYS. WEVE HAD ICE TRAYS FOR LIKE 100 GODDAMN YEARS. WHY ARE WE STILL STRUGGLING WITH DESIGNING ICE TRAYS???

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  • [โ€“] 26 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Almost, but it has movie titles under the poster/cover and usually pulls the actual movie covers.

    Once you click into it, it gives a shitton of detail about the movie.

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Once you click into it, it gives a shitton of detail about the movie.

    Is this not the case with netflix/hbo? Sorry i never actually used any streaming service before other than Jellyfin so i don't understand what is the issue here

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  • [โ€“] 20 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Two things off the top of my head:

    • Jellyfin displays ratings from RT (and opencritic maybe?), while Netflix has stopped displaying their own user ratings years ago.

    • Jellyfin displays the full cast and crew. When you click an actor, director,... it shows you other media where they appear, even individual episodes. Netflix has none of that.

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