Friday, December 9, 2011

Twitter changes its web and mobile interfaces

The network of micro-blogging opens a whole new interface, designed to better organize the various flows of the user. As a bonus, this change also involved in the IOS and Android applications.The new interface introduced by Twitter called "Fly". With the redesigned user interface, available both on the web version, as the mobile versions and applications iOS and Android, the stated aim of the social network is to give the user a new approach to the news feeds, it to discover more contacts, more discussion topics and expand its community Clubic reports.
"We have simplified the design to make it easier than ever to follow what is important to you, connect with others and to discover new things," Twitter announced in the introduction of its new design. The unification is at the heart of the project, since whatever the platform, the interface retains the same aesthetic and ergonomic standards.
The layout changes as a result, navigation elements are passed from right to left, disrupting already users. But nevertheless this reorganization brings long awaited functionality. One of them is the ability to display a photo published on an external platform to Twitter directly on its news page. This avoids opening multiple tabs to go look at the pictures of his friends.
On the home page, three parts are clearly defined. The "Home" that presents the news feed of contacts, "Connect" which lists the interactions among its own followers, and finally "discover" that offers the most intense discussions on the social network. Twitter speaks of "Stories," topical unearthed on the web, and widely commented upon and organized through a "hashtag", a code where the subject is preceded by a # and then be able to follow all the message with the indication .
Mobile, navigation respects this new categorization. The look of different applications has been working to provide a uniform variation of the site on iOS or Android platforms. The look of the application was also reviewed, more refined and more pleasant to use daily. Regrettably only a lack of contextual actions on ergonomics. Unable to activate such a response to a tweet, retweet or a slip of the finger. It would have been entirely hands-on tactile devices.
Errors, small failures, there are on these new platforms Twitter, but the paint is still too fresh to be a full review. Updates will certainly refine new directions in social network usage.

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