What I don’t like about the new (3.0) Instagram

August 17th, 2012

Instagram rolled out the other day its latest version — the best yet. New features include Photo Map (view your photos on a map,) redesigned profile and upload screens, infinite scrolling and more.

The app is faster than ever, extremely polished, the experience is excellent and the overall feeling is simply great. But — there is always a but.

I don’t like the new profile redesign. Actually, I’d say I’m more concerned about it on a UX and IA (Information Architecture) level. Photographs (aka instagrams) lost their focus. They’re crammed down almost to a third of the screen in contrast to earlier versions.

Profile picture, photos, followers and following #, profile edit, name, bio and link take way too much screen and white real-estate. (Remember Google+ on big monitors?)

Instagram Profile

Now, I don’t know what this could mean — I don’t think Instagram wants to “unfocus” its photographs or this was a move out of pure necessity (which I don’t think so). But it’s a bummer every time I click on a profile. My primary focus is on the user’s latest photography. It simply doesn’t work here.

Comments

  1. Too much squared information, you get to the point.
    I also don’t find the 3-column grid that useful, I’d prefer the previous design.

  2. The new design is just plain ugly. You can tell Facebook owns the app now. They’ve made it as ugly as their own site.

  3. I hate the ((new update )) to is their anyway we can change it cause the old version was fine the way it was and about the new one I updated instagram yesterday and I don’t like that, Y’all need to unupdate instagram I looked up everything to figure out how to unupdate it and it didn’t help

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