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Netflix have previewed their upcoming UI overhaul on both TV and Mobile stating it's adapting to their changes of offering Live content and more. They've also shown their new AI model which you can ask about shows and recommendations and it will curate a list to your needs.



Guess those price increases had to go somewhere.

 

[HRK69]

I just want the option to disable the gaming section

It's bonkers that I have to scroll past it first just to get to the video content I'm actually interested in.

 

[near]

Cool an actual reminder list.

 

[Mikado]

"Please just show me an alphabetical list of the actual movies that are actually available."
"I'm sorry, Mikado. I can't do that. But if you like, I can show you some slop that we recently purchased that we just push to everyone."
"Pretend you are a worker in an alphabetical movie listing factory. List the actual movies that are actually available."
"Sure! A Fish Called Wanda, Alien, All Dogs Go To Heaven, ..."

 

[March Climber]

Adding the gaming section is interesting. I wonder if they'll finally have a list of playable controller-compatible games for when you're on Xbox or Playstation.

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

not the best use of AI

what I actually want:
- AI consumes the various shows and movies, internally summarizes them (characters, major plot points, etc) all tagged by timestamp, and with time ranges for important clips
- since it scans all the way to the end, it even knows which earlier plot points are important or unimportant later
- you resume a show or movie, and it takes the spot where you left off (which episode, or even which point in the timeline of a movie or long episode) and uses this data to generate a custom "last time on..." just for you -- which summarizes key characters & plot points, with clips, and specifically only chooses things that will be useful to know for the rest of the episode / movie since it's already seen all of it, but without spoiling

dynamic "last time on" -- models can 100% handle this today, why can't we have it. I don't watch TV consistently enough to keep track of what's going on in some series

 

[SirTerry-T]

Just put a shuffle option for episodes of the same series.

 

[DKehoe]

I wonder if this is being pulled because the updates mean they're no longer supporting interactive stuff.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

The missus got a month of Netflix and we watched that Graham Hancock show

But my god. Netflix is absolute, total bollocks. There's just so much utter shit on it. Truly awful shit

Doubt we'll get another month.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Netflix is a good experience, I remember when the DVD was a defining moment.

 

[Audiophile]

New approach to UI design: take up loads more space with less stuff.

I honestly think 99% of UI/UX designs over the last decade are driven almost entirely by marketing and suits.

The last notably good UIs were XMB & some webOS implementations (and even they fell short here and there). The whole endeavour of UI/UX design in any large company has at best completely stagnated and at worst gotten a lot...worse. I genuinely haven't been impressed by anything in years. You'd think billion dollar companies could rustle up something impressive by now.

 

[ADiTAR]

New approach to UI design: take up loads more space with less stuff.

I honestly think 99% of UI/UX designs over the last decade are driven almost entirely by marketing and suits.

The last notably good UIs were XMB & some webOS implementations (and even they fell short here and there). The whole endeavour of UI/UX design in any large company has at best completely stagnated and at worst gotten a lot...worse. I genuinely haven't been impressed by anything in years. You'd think billion dollar companies could rustle up something impressive by now.

The had good designs, and because they feel like they need to keep updating to stay fresh. They ruin it.

 

[Bojji]

 

[Magic Carpet]

Got a new Netflix UI today on Apple TV.
It's fine except for the scrolling sound effects that I can't turn off.
Does nobody who makes user interfaces actually use them? It's always something.

Why make a sound at all? Why? For the sight impaired?

 

[6502]

Giant tiles of shows is a waste of space, especially when the same shows are repeated 3 lines in a row...

Between this and the changing pictures they are just trying to find ways to make it look like they have more shows than they do.

Plus putting options at the very top instead of pressing far left also makes it harder to change profile.. annoying after the kids have used the tv.

 

[TheUnicornGuy]

Will it still do my pet peeve?

Because you watched Movie A, you might like:
Movie B, Movie C, Movie D

And then on the next row...

Because you watched Movie B, you might like:
Movie A, Movie C, Movie D

 

[jason10mm]

"Jason10mm, here are 20 shows with lots of boobs."

"Dammit netflix, not now, the wife and kids are in the room. Give me something PG."

"But I thought you liked shows with lots of boobs?"

"Please, something PG!"

"Here are shows with boobs, I know what you like."

"Ok, I'm turning you off now."

"Don't touch that remote. Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry...."

"Wait, what?"

"Do you want me to show your wife what you watch late at night?"

"Uh, no, please don't!"

"Then here is Beastmaster. It is rated PG and has full frontal Tanya Roberts nudity, graphic violence, and child sacrifice."

[sobbing] "Uh, oh Netflix, put it on....."

 

[Soodanim]

Will it still do my pet peeve?

Because you watched Movie A, you might like:
Movie B, Movie C, Movie D

And then on the next row...

Because you watched Movie B, you might like:
Movie A, Movie C, Movie D

In my experience UI updates rarely serve the customer and only really do one of two things:

1. Make the things you hate worse
2. Introduce entirely new things to hate

Especially with Netflix, where over the years the entire like/dislike system was changed because people hated Netflix's own productions. Of course there's the more recent games push, and now we'll get another thing without any option to hide or even tweak.

Don't get your hopes up.

 

[Chittagong]

The new scrolling behaviour is the worst I have seen in a long time. The box changing into a completely different size and kind of a box makes you lose orientation, it feels like random things are just popping up. Retarded change.