Noticed something different when we arrived at Flickr for our daily dose of interestingness. The home page has been completely revamped! At first we thought it was our eyes playing tricks, but looking through google’s cache (indexed 12 June) shows that Flickr has indeed gotten a major makeover. Oddly, the revamp was not mentioned at all on their blog which last posted the introduction of 7 new languages to Flickr (French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese.)

New home page

Old home page

Flickr now sports a much cleaner interface. Instead of the old layout which catered to 800×600 resolution, it is now limited to a minimum of 1024×768 resolution. The set of rotating images at the homepage has been added to. Gone are the weird quotes that accompanies each image. Options to “Share & stay in touch”, “Upload & organize” and “Make stuff!” are made available besides the ole’ “Explore Flickr” (renamed “Explore…”). Each of the options actually links to the particular section of their tour.

Basically, the information presented is a lot more readable and accessible, compared with the old interface. Nothing else on Flickr seems to change though.

Flickr homepage
Google cache of Flickr

Tags: Flickr, Redesign, Web2.0

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