Simple analysis of Instagram and path products

In our current life, work, learning process, social networking has begun to become the future trend of internet development. And facebook,twitter,google++ are popular products on social networks, and their monthly usage is growing.

But today I'm not talking about popular Internet products that are familiar to us.

But now, with the rapid changes in social networks, more and more young people are using handheld wireless devices to surf the internet, and then engage in their social circles, which is an emerging era for photo-photo-making. As the social forms of picture sharing become more and more popular, many young people like to use pictures to share the people and things that happen around them, and to show their lives, idea and circle. And with the popularity of smartphones like Iphone,andirod, people can share pictures anytime, anywhere to enrich their social networks, which is what I'm going to talk about about pic today.

In the social networking market, popular Facebook, Google +, Twitter, and the campus network provide users with comprehensive social services, and now people are more focused on the storage and sharing of pictures. With the increasing number of users on the Internet, there is still a lack of specialized services to meet the needs of people in the picture sharing. The picture contained in the "Human" information, did not get enough attention; This makes the existing picture-sharing services, most of which become online image storage tools, but not the image behind the social, entertainment and other values to fully play out. Dedicated to providing users with unique services to help them build relationships between pictures and individuals, allowing people to share and use pictures more easily.

Now in the market, there are a lot of apps to meet these needs, I am here to do some explanation and analysis, to help you better understand the charm of the network. Has 2011 years close to the popular Instagram, the photo editor mainly camera360, the private social sharing path, the interesting full picplz and so on, these are the foreign do relatively good several apps.

Let me share these picture social applications. Mainly speaking Instagram and path of these two, because of their revised experience is particularly shocking to me, especially the path after the revision of the interface style of a lot of improvement, to our domestic UI industry has brought new enlightenment, hope to pay attention to this kind of products students have some help.

Instagram:

It's a free, fun, easy way to create and share your iphone gorgeous photos, and you can instantly share them with apps that interact with you and your friends on Facebook,twitter, Flickr and other social platforms.

It is a small team composed of only 6 people, then in 2011 only spent a year, will use the user breakthrough 14 million, the release of more than 400 million photos, the user volume around the world. Currently only iOS platform intervention, the Android version of the application hope that the early development, convenient for everyone to use. What is the place where we look at its success and the Allure of attraction?

Show from Picture:

Instagram from 1.0 to today's 2.0 of the transformation, the interface and logo have undergone a lot of qualitative leaps. Logo adjustment of more sophisticated realism. From before the flat texture of the ribbon Lomo camera evolved into the new version of the thick texture of the three-dimensional lens, making the entire apps more noble and upgrade sense. The interface feature adds a lot of filter effects. Picture quality has also improved a lot, the most important is the server capacity to do a relatively large improvement, speed up a lot.

Let's take a look at its history of metamorphosis.

2.0 of this upgrade to Instagram's global user volume has climbed again, pushing it to the apex.

1.1% free custom designed filters; Filter micro-innovation, 200 times times faster than the previous processing photos.

2. Adding mirror depth and moving axis effect;

3. Instant sharing to Facebook,twitter,flick interaction with friends, entering the status of independent social products.

4. Technical engineers of the fine selection, can support wireless mass upload, the server more stable.

5. Friends ' likes and comments, comments;

6. Delete some unnecessary functions and simplify the interface;

7. And also launched a series of peripheral extension applications; (Insta rader it can find a 5-mile radius of instagarm-share photos and mark the location; Insta Rgam is an augmented reality application that can push the popular best photos of nearby communities. Insta Deck can migrate the Instagarm experience to the desktop of a Mac computer.

This is the Instagram web version experience, easy to participate and experience. http://statigr.am/

UI interface is also very exquisite, very in line with the current literary and artistic youth of the aesthetic tone, welcome to share in the above all kinds of interesting pictures wow!

Instagram incorporates a number of social elements on the mobile side, including the establishment, response, sharing, and collection of Buddy relationships, which is the greatest value of Instagram as a service presence rather than an application.

But not all picture-sharing tools agree with open social images and routes, while another photo shoot and share provider path insists on a "private sharing" alternative.

Path: This apps is a very worthwhile application, a "close friend social platform" crafted by two former Facebook employees that has broken through 1 million of the number of users, It in this 2.0 revision, made a gorgeous and polished turn, the many similar products are left behind. Direct leadership of the entire picture class social sharing circle, whether it is in the function and interface design to do quite a bit of exquisite, very popular with everyone's favorite.

Path is actually a private photo photo circle, it can only add your closest 50 people as friends, it makes you can't help but want to part of the audience dour NO. This is also a good way to build the third social networking category on the Internet. Path 2.0 is a mock-up of a smart magazine that can help you share life, love, your thoughts, your listening songs, videos. The new edition adds more information to the timeline, giving you a clearer picture of the time, place, characters and events that come along the way to better help you remember what happened in the past. The new edition also adds an interesting wake-up feature that, when you're asleep and waking up, you can easily identify your location and bedtime, and let your most intimate friends know your dynamics as soon as you've played the path. You can also let your friends know where you are sharing the path on the place. You can also see which friends your friends have added to encrypt the chain of relationships.

The most stunning is the layout of its homepage, the atmosphere concise layout, but also fully demonstrated the necessary basic information. New features are also starting to highlight the design team's thinking about the social patterns of intimate friends.

Refreshing gorgeous interface, when users log in to a new version of path, you will be able to change their own preferences of the home page background picture, users can customize this "background picture" to friends to show their aesthetic ideas, a little personal blog feeling. The processing of the avatar is also quite exquisite, very ingenious and home background vinyl combination, with eye-catching English name and basic information as the homepage title, the entire apps on the home page to bring people a different degree of refinement, coupled with the sophistication of iOS display, The transformation of the path to show the relentless. It can be described in several key words: Revolutionary breakthrough Subversion, the most unique innovation transformation, and the competitive potential of similar products increased by a hundredfold.

The design of the UI is very fine and concise, which expresses their functional meaning.

Into the application itself, many of the details of the ingenious ideas also in the use of the process center of love.

The user in the process of wheel browsing, the right side of the screen will automatically appear a timeline indicator, the dynamic scrolling of the pointer, to help you record all the dynamic information.

The user's form of operation is also very novel, based on the "+" icon at the bottom left of the screen--click on it, the 6 extended option button pops up, at this time the red "+" has become a red "X" number, reminding the user to click again will be extended out of the option button back together. Flash action to ease the implementation of the user to bring a relaxed and lively feeling.

The three-screen mode of the menu and left-right rolling switch, interface display, strengthen the continuity of the operation process, so that information display more intuitive, this is also 2.0 very heroic design, so that users in the interactive and visual experience is quite perfect.

Mobile phone bottom left corner area, in the human-computer interaction logic, more suitable for the right hand operation, "X" button contains a number of commonly used functions, show space-saving, intuitive guidance.

There is also a very good thing to mention, record the time and place to wake up every day, so that the most intimate people feel each other's existence.

Path brings me a different feeling, a lot of meticulous and perfect intimate service makes the user feel more interesting and warm. Do the product to this extent, can really give the user a sense of home.

Feed the time axis emotional display, interspersed with these lovely and high rate of identification icon, let people particularly like! Left a deep influence, for this section apps added a lot of fun.

This is what I think the current photo studio network, do a fairly successful two applications. It is also a apps that involves picture sharing to convey information. But they are fully satisfied in the two dimensions of their desire to understand each other's dynamic needs, and illustrated, lifelike. Push the entire social network to a peak at the picture share.

Of course, finally recommend a few I used a relatively good similar products, I hope to like share pictures of enthusiasts try to experience yo!

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