Watch this great video preview of the new Twitter design. I will have an experience blog about it after the, well, 'experience.'
The already-minimal design has been "simplified" more/less "to make it easier than ever to follow what you care about, connect with others and discover something new," says Twitter blog. The new design will be implemented on Twitter.com and mobile phones and Tweetdeck. Twitter also says that the new design is more dedicated to 'new users.' I'm wondering, who else aren't on Twitter yet? :-)
On what I've learned, all that's going on will be fit in to these 4 'tabs':
- Home: an upgraded version of the news feed. Twitter aims reduce the number of clicks or page/tab turns to do an action, such as viewing TwitPics, TwitVids and other media contents. All these will be viewable on the feed and is just a click away now.
- Connect: @replies, mentions (and possibly retweets), and other related activities will be on this tab.
- Discover: This tab will house the trending topics, hash tag searches; and this will also suggest topics based on your most frequent tweets, follows.
- Me: It's you! A wider-scope social profile with your latest activities logged.
Visit http://fly.twitter.com/ to discover more for yourself. The new design is currently just available for iPhone and Android. But you can get early access on your computer by downloading and logging into Twitter for iPhone or Twitter for Android. It will be available to all "in the coming weeks."
