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Designing a New Look for Instagram, Inspired by the Community

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Re: Designing a New Look for Instagram, Inspired by the Community

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Post by degenerate »

cpcallen wrote: post #18

Oh god, what is with wretched gradients? OS X has become an angry fruit salad, and now this. Fortunately I've never seen the appeal of Instagram, and uBlock Origin does a great job of making sure I never see social media buttons, so this will hopefully be the first and last time I have to look at it, but really: WTF were they thinking?

This new icon honestly looks like it was made in 10 minutes by a designer on Fiverr.

Re: Designing a New Look for Instagram, Inspired by the Community

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Post by greenspot »

I just wanted to compare Instagram vs Snapchat and got this (I know Google Trends cannot be used for popularity because of mobile apps but just to get some vague tendency):

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=snapchat%2C%20instag...

So, Instagram is still way bigger but we some slow down when it comes to growth but everything is still good.

Then, I just added Facebook to the game and look what I got:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=snapchat%2C%20instag...

Facebook is huge but I guess it's primarily because people search for it on desktop instead of typing the .com-domain. But what hit me more and it's OT here: how Facebook is dropping, this doesn't look good.

Re: Designing a New Look for Instagram, Inspired by the Community

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Post by bhandziuk »

alex_doom wrote: post #2

I always thought the rainbow was a nod to the One Step version of Polaroid's SX-70. It had a little rainbow strip that came down from the lens. Now its a gradient? Meh. Also looks like we're going back to extreme rounded corners again? Square is out? Heh. On a positive note, I do like the white and grey tone of the app itself. Cleaner and more relaxing than the blue/black tones.

I think the trouble with it is that the picture headers are given the same weight as comments. Before you could have a clear and obvious separation of sections. Now not so much. It's just all white.

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Post by bhandziuk »

jonesetc wrote: post #7
jbob2000 wrote: post #4

Their old logo was iconic (pun intended). It harkened back to the polaroid days, probably one of the best uses of skeuomorphism. People had fun with the old logo because it was tangible; a real camera, "I know what a camera is!". The new logo is generic and bland, completely indistinctive. It looks like something I would pull out of glyphicons from bootstrap or font-awesome. And now all my previous clients with Insta…

I have complained about the instagram logo for years, but now I'm eating that. This icon is meaningless and will stick out like even more of a sore thumb.

What was your issue with the old logo?

Re: Designing a New Look for Instagram, Inspired by the Community

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Post by jonesetc »

bhandziuk wrote: post #25
jonesetc wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have complained about the instagram logo for years, but now I'm eating that. This icon is meaningless and will stick out like even more of a sore thumb.

What was your issue with the old logo?

1. I never liked skeuomorphic icons, so I'm biased. I'm not a flat fanatic, but it definitely goes way past the sensible middle ground for me.

2. It's just so out of place with everything else on my phone (android). It gets my attention every time I open the app drawer, and I mean that in a bad way.

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