Streaming video apps all look the same now

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for prioritizing style over usability; instead of showing you as much content as possible, it highlighted one or two items at a time with full-screen artwork and oversized, thin-weight fonts.

In the months and years that followed, Hulu dialed back and reversed a lot of the more drastic changes and ultimately settled on something more familiar. It hasn’t fully given in and adopted left-side navigation like everyone else quite yet, but all the main sections are similar.So we’ve clearly settled on the “right way” to do UX for video streaming apps. But that doesn’t mean all the headaches are solved. In Prime Video’s case, Amazon still lists seasons of TV shows separately.

A lot of people would also love an option to permanently filter what’s shown in all these content carousels to everything included with their Prime subscription — and nothing else. But that’s not going to help Amazon’s bottom line in regards to subscriptions and rentals / purchases, so don’t count on it. Amazon insists it’ll gather customer feedback and continue evolving the revamped Prime Video. You can’t call it original, but at least it’s inherently more usable than before.

 

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Netflix nailed the most addictive layout, so no need to reinvent it

Only apple tv is different

who cares?

Thank god - standardization so I know wtf I’m doing and muscle memory can take me where I need to go.

so cable is back?

I’ll take “What is Jakob’s Law?” for $500, Alex.

You mean all the others copied netflix .

Mine just looks like the old one not new

All make it very difficult to find Recently Added, with Amazon Prime being to worst. Sometimes buried some 24 categories down. So bored of the carousel look, of only a handful of titles a time. Should be an option for time saving to switch to cover only view 💚

Except for Amazon prime. It's like 2001 again

About f'in time.

Worth reading this too for anyone that hasn't: hypercritical

Those look like carefully selected screenshots. But how easy are they to actually navigate?

Those all look different to me...

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