LinkedIn is by far one of the most popular and successful social networking websites on the internet. A popular network with business professionals, it launched in 2003 and just last months it reached a milestone 50million membership.
Along with success comes a responsibility to its users to provide an exciting and beneficial service that enables people to network with others efficiently. Today came the announcement by Principal User Experience Designer, Kevin Bury that LinkedIn is currently in the process of redesigning certain aspects of the website.
According to Kevin Bury there will be four main goals/areas of the redesign.
- A global navigation bar at the top of the page that provides convenient access to all LinkedIn services.
- Simplified local navigation within each of the LinkedIn areas (Profile, Contacts, Groups, etc.).
- More room available for page content. Less scrolling.
- A cleaner, less-cluttered look.
The most dramatic change is the doing away of the sidebar, with LinkedIn deciding that top navigation is the way to go. Why they feel it’s necessary to change is anyones guess!
There is also a slight change to the profile page, although not that dramatic (bar the already mentioned sidebar of course).
What do you think of the new designs?
