Netflix provides a complete library, but one void of personalization outside of your own queue. Recommendations are one thing, but the ability to create your own segmented library can offer Netflix a more personalized and social approach to management and discovery.

Rather than the current state of Library > Queue, it should be Queue > Lists. Social lists, smart lists, private lists.

Queues are commonly to-do lists, what to watch next. A queue can be filled with repetitive titles, becoming a personalized library, but then you’ve done away with a clean way of watching unseen films.

Netflix should offer lists which segment content away from Netflix’s own library, and creates niche ones for yourself. Create lists by genre, content, or favorites, then share them.

Showcase your top 10 films, or TV shows available on instant. Follow a friends list, or a celebrities.

Otherwise smart playlists, think iTunes, can create more direct recommendations to content buried deep within Netflix archives. Customize lists based on count- top 10, type- movie, genre- action, or even name- Steven Spielberg.

It’s easy taking something simple and complicating it. It’s difficult taking something simple and enhancing it. I hope these ideas fall towards the latter.