Instagram to Test Redesigned User Profiles Over the Coming Weeks

Thursday November 22, 2018 3:14 AM PST by Tim Hardwick
Instagram says it is testing new layout designs for user profiles over the next few weeks that will make them easier to use and better at helping people connect with each other on the social network.


The company announced the upcoming changes on its official blog, explaining that it would experiment in phases with various profile combinations and listen to user feedback:
Over the next several weeks, you may see features re-arranged at the top of your profile including changes to icons, buttons and the way you navigate between tabs, which we hope will make profiles easier and cleaner to use. The photos and videos you've shared on your grid won't change.
The images above provided by Instagram demonstrate the types of changes that users can expect to see in their own and other users' outward-facing profiles. For example, profile bios are shown sitting alongside profile pictures, while the Follow and Message buttons are lined up together below them.

Interestingly, the screens also show profile designs in which follower counts are less prominent, a move that Twitter also recently made to its iOS app in an effort to prioritize "meaningful" conversation over retweets, follows, and likes.

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iLoveDeveloping
12 weeks ago
Listen to users!!! Ye ok, shut it Facebook. Just another way to ruin a once brilliant platform for monetization and bad user experience for anyone that doesn’t sell something. God I hate Facebook so much, it’s such a disgusting vacuum of opportunistic manipulation of human beings to make money. I hope I live to see that company crumble to pieces.
[doublepost=1542893148][/doublepost]Improved user experience - Post post ad ad post ad ad post post ad ad ad post ad ad ad ad ad post ad ad ad. *Quits app. What’s the point. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Internet Enzyme
12 weeks ago
Profile pics on the right is unnatural and wrong
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ImperfectLion
12 weeks ago
This is the beginning of Facebook cluttering the entire app.
The new profiles look so squashed, there’s too much going on
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HacKage
12 weeks ago
I deleted my account last week after having an in bed conversation with my partner about a drink that I seen a few years ago, and isn't even available in my country. The next morning, I was shown an advert for this brand in my Story timeline.

I have heard of allsorts of stories about how Facebook listens, but considering this was a product that I hadn't seen in years, so haven't searched for or anything, and isn't even available where I am, I am 100% certain that they were listening to the conversation somehow and listening for buzzwords to focus adverts. There is literally no way possible that it was random, and it would make no sense to show an advert for a product not available in my country to me.

As soon as that happened I deleted both accounts and the apps. They overstepped the mark. I don't doubt that everything like my Alexa or Siri is listening, and using that data for whatever, but I hate adverts more than anything else, and the fact they somehow have the ability to listen when when my phone screen is off, and then force adverts onto me for using their service is not on.
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alpi123
12 weeks ago

Profile pics on the right is unnatural and wrong

Exactly. Looks so off and wrong, I don't know who even gave this idea...
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MacFan782040
12 weeks ago
Just give us the ability to make some photos public and some private, like Facebook.
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fairuz
12 weeks ago
I can't think of a single time in the past several years Facebook "improved" something and it actually got better. Last time was the addition of groups and pages to FB, which actually made it a lot more useful.

This redesign looks just slightly worse because there's more clutter. I expect it's the beginning of a string of changes to turn IG into the new FB.
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calstanford
12 weeks ago
Another product that Facebook ****s up like Whatsapp, FB Messenger and FB proper
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Elijen
12 weeks ago

the Story feature is the quickest and easiest way of catching up with your social media needs

I hate stories. It just encourages quantity over quality that was already a problem with news feed. I am slowly removing myself from all social media except Twitter which seems to be the only one who is not obsessed by "improving" stuff.
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Tech for Kings
12 weeks ago

I deleted my account last week after having an in bed conversation with my partner about a drink that I seen a few years ago, and isn't even available in my country. The next morning, I was shown an advert for this brand in my Story timeline.

I have heard of allsorts of stories about how Facebook listens, but considering this was a product that I hadn't seen in years, so haven't searched for or anything, and isn't even available where I am, I am 100% certain that they were listening to the conversation somehow and listening for buzzwords to focus adverts. There is literally no way possible that it was random, and it would make no sense to show an advert for a product not available in my country to me.

As soon as that happened I deleted both accounts and the apps. They overstepped the mark. I don't doubt that everything like my Alexa or Siri is listening, and using that data for whatever, but I hate adverts more than anything else, and the fact they somehow have the ability to listen when when my phone screen is off, and then force adverts onto me for using their service is not on.

Same thing happened here, but with Google on my 1st-Gen Pixel phone. I was home discussing some item with my brother. He was at the door, so I spoke louder. I can’t recall the item, but it wasn’t something I had ever searched for and certainly didn’t recently. It was hours or a day later Google was putting that item in my face. I was livid! That was the very first time I ever caught it, because I knew for a fact I never used my phone to look into that item. I went on social media and everything directing my anger at Google for listening to private conversations to serve me ads on what I spoke about. Companies like Facebook & Google are truly pathetic and desperate. They’d go that far just to make a buck. If they’re willing to do that, just imagine what else others are doing with more nefarious reasons!
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