Russian social network “Vkontakte” began the forced transition to the new design, on which work was carried out over several years. The new interface will happen gradually, and return to the old version of the design has not come out, although there are some exceptions.
During the transition to the new design all those who had previously left a request for testing, will retain the ability to use classic interface, but once the transition is completed, the bench, the developers closed down. We have repeatedly written about the preparation of a new shell for “Vkontakte”, and during testing, I hope, have been identified and eliminated, if not all, almost all of its shortcomings. It is not for us to judge the ergonomics and usability, but the new shell has very little in common with the former.
Almost all efforts aimed at increasing the comfort of use of the network with mobile devices — all has become considerably larger, including the display style of photos with comments is already not in the bottom as it was before, and to the right. Design applications for iOS and Android is also already updated, plus was embedded algorithm publish news based on user interests, fortunately, is still disabled. It must be noted that the new appearance of “Vkontakte” is very similar to the current design of Facebook, which, by the way, not everyone seems comfortable.
