Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Instagram refreshes its app for iOS 7, but not the icon


Instagram today updated its app to fit in with iOS 7. Like Twitter, Instagram hasn't given its app a total revamp, but has instead applied a fresh coat of paint, flattened its top navigation bar, and placed a much greater emphasis on content in its user interface. Images in the app's news feed, for example, now span the entire width of the iPhone's screen — a 4.5 percent increase in size. On profile pages, interface chrome surrounding text like "posts" and "followers" has been removed, and profile images are now circular.


"Instagram has always been a content-first platform, and Apple threw an OS in our lap that allowed us to make that really happen," says designer Maykel Loomans. He's referring to Apple design chief Jony Ive's line...


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