Internet Movie Database (IMDB) is most popular information website for movies, television shows, video games and reviews. IMDB is highly responsive and innovative website designed with some of the essential principles of interface design as follows:
Simple and Clarity: The interface is clear and simple that user can say right-a-way that the website is related to entertainment. Well presentation and proper positioning of information and its contents improves the functionality of the page.
Preferred Action: Targeted user should be easily able identify the way of performing the desired action as soon as user visited the website. The homepage has a clearly visible responsive search bar and thumbnails of new releases.
Feedback: Interface clarifies resolving issues which occurs while performing certain tasks by the user with the options like help or FAQ. Misunderstanding or wrong actions of the user can be improvised in future by communicating as a feedback.
Ease of action: Responsive search bar always makes the actions simpler than we imagine even with the minimal knowledge on desired content. Sidebars and drop-down menus helps to perform certain tasks even easier.
Easy Navigation: Accessing between different pages back and forth is easy. Especially, Drop-down menus makes the navigation through content pages flexible. Except for the external links, all the navigation can be performed in same page.
Readability: Using default fonts like Times new roman, sans-serif with appropriate font-size always helps to make the page looks simple, plain and professional. Sometimes font color affects the user readability more and high intensity colors like red and blue disturbs while reading. So, combination of black and white colors always appealing.
Visuals: Proper positioning and embedding of an images into webpage is an essential art of designing work. Because sometimes images conveys the information more effectively than the actual text. But, too much visuals like flash and over usage of images slows down the accessing speed of the content.