Suggestions to Improve the User Interface - GRID View

Note : It’s my first post in the forum, so I hope you will be understanding if my thoughts don’t follow some rules that I’m not aware of yet.
I look forward to reading all your comments about my suggestion

I believe there are several improvements that could greatly enhance the overall user experience.

I have attached a screenshot of the Movies/Series library interface, and I would like to share my feedback with you.
I have divided the observations into three zones: A, B, and C, as shown in the image.

Zone A – Information Panel (1/4 of the screen)

This area displays information about the currently highlighted movie in Zone C.
However, each time I scroll through the list, the device loads new information for films I am not actually selecting.
This constant loading is unnecessary and wastes processing power and memory.

Most users scroll quickly through the list to find the movie they actually want we do not need detailed information for every poster we briefly pass over.
This contributes to slower navigation and a less efficient user experience.

I will come back to this issue again when discussing Zone C.

Zone B – Unused “Dead Zone” (1/4 of the screen)

This zone currently serves almost no purpose. It occupies a large portion of the screen and contains only three buttons that are rarely used. For anyone using a 55” TV or larger (which is very common for Z12 Ultimate customers), this area represents a significant amount of wasted space — more than 2000 cm² on a 55” display — without providing any real value.

These buttons could easily be moved to the top-left area of the screen, next to Zone A, without impacting usability.

Zone C – Main Content Area (2/4 of the screen)

This is the most frustrating part of the interface.
Despite being the zone users interact with 90% of the time, it displays only 7 movies at once, and navigation is strictly horizontal.
This forces the user to scroll through every single movie one by one, making browsing extremely slow and uncomfortable.

This design has pushed several users I know — and many others online — to install third-party streaming apps, or even consider leaving the Formuler ecosystem entirely because of this browsing experience.

Suggested Solution – Grid View Option

To significantly improve the user experience, I strongly recommend implementing a grid view for movies and series.
This would allow users to see many more titles at once and navigate much faster, while reducing the workload on the device.

MyTVOnline previously offered a good catalog experience, and many users stayed with Formuler because of this.

Bringing back a grid-style option would greatly improve usability.

A simple solution would be to add a button in Zone B for exemple (as marked in red in the screenshot) that allows users to permanently switch between the current layout and a grid layout.

If the option is turned off, the interface can revert to the existing display.

MyTvOnline 2 is more easy and more user friendly to use :

Quote from MCIF

You can scroll both horizontally AND vertically, not only horizontally….

At least with a Z11 Pro Max using MOL3, should expect the same is true with Z12 Ultra…

If you scroll horizontally, you have to go through every film or series one by one. Imagine there are 50 or more new films in the catalogue — if you want to discover them all, you would need to scroll 50 times or more just to reach the last one. That’s a lot of wasted time.
Now, if you scroll vertically, like on MyTvOnline 2 as shown in the image in the post, you can see 24 titles at once. Can you imagine how much faster that is?

Quote from MCIF

Scrolling through the “zone C” is fast as lightning with my providers. See no reason to speed that up even more. Besides that, Insee no reason to browse through the list, I enter a search string to find a movie. Much faster and all those images don’t mean much. Therefore the text thatbis displayed at every movie does make sense as it gives information what the movie is all about.

The way to reach the search icon could be improved as it only shows up once you navigate to a movie and not before. So you need to know what to do in order for the search icon to appear. Totally counter intuitive.

For me there are other things that have a much higher priority to get fixed.

I understand your point of view, and I’m glad your provider works well for you that’s definitely a good thing. But in my case, I’m talking about the user experience with a provider that adds dozens of new movies and TV shows every day. I can’t pretend to know everything that gets added daily, and if I don’t use my box for two or three days for any reason, I can easily end up with around thirty new titles in my catalog.

Having to scroll through them one by one becomes very annoying in that situation