Flickr has been upgraded.
Did they add in loads of new features to make me happy – not really.
Did they sit back and think about how people use the service and make me smile with the way they have thought about the user experience – oh yes .
FlickBlog has the details.
Loads of thing which I used to have to do through two pages I can now do through a drop down. It’s still two clicks of the mouse, but it’s only one page load. Much, much nicer .
“Your Photos” is now dramatically cleaner and shows more of what the service is really about – photos .
They have put the number of photos and the number of views near the top of the screen which is just catering to our megalomaniac tendencies – but I’m sure I’m not the only one that spends a lot of time looking at these numbers .
Moving the product away from being a ‘beta’ product also makes me feel happy. It was only a title, but it made me feel uncomfortable especially when I’m paying for it. Who buys a beta product?
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In a way, the “number of views” figure is the most perverse part of internet photos; for years people have known that even family & friends are generally bored when the photo album gets pulled out, and yet we expect total strangers to visit and enjoy and comment happily (and are disappointed when this doesn’t happen).
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