LinkedIn Mobile App Gains QR Code Scanner and Translation Service

LinkedIn has some serious usability flaws. The sharing of user profile links is a critical use case. I hope they know this, they are certainly not proving they know this. Using QR technology proves their lack of understanding of the problem AND poor solution.

1) people cant find their own profile link on the desktop site, much less share it. It is well hidden.
2) people can absolutely not find their profile link in the mobile app. It is so well hidden, and so absolutely critical in the mobile context, LinkedIn should re-evaluate the employment status of all senion UX and Engineering executives on mobile. They have literally made it inpossible to share in a mobile context, which is ABSOLUTELY limiting growth and value.
3) maybe add QR to link, but link HAS to be trivial to share. Come on!!!!!

I have interviewed several recent university business graduates and asked them to share their LinkedIn profile with me, by sending me a link. Half of them respond they don’t know how to or didn’t know it was possible. That was 50% of university business grads in 2018. Theres a data point for your big data data scientists. Sample size = 10.

With all the kings horses and all the kings men... you don’t have your most basic and valuable use case nailed??? Sharing!!!!

CEO sleeping at the wheel. Shareholders, wake up, get these guys in gear, send a signal, start firing poor decision makers and poor decision executors.

Can you imagine if facebook made it as hard to “friend” as LinkedIn makes it to “share”?

Now the other way around! What if in LinkedIn it was as easy to share a profile as it is to “friend” in FaceBook????

Boom.
(face slap)
Gauntlet dropped.

Another QR code reader that'll never be used.