Friday, March 2, 2018

A Bad New Snapchat

-A Bad New Snapchat-

With the latest update to the millennial's popular social media app "Snapchat" users now have an app that separates personal content form media sources, however, many users are having an outrage because of the new layout. lets break the UI of Snapchat into three sections: left, middle, and right.

Center

Below is the camera (not the latest edition) that appears when users first open Snapchat, nothing has changed all that much for the camera other than a few icon modifications and reorganization of icons.

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Left Side

Swiping to the left will lead users to Chats and Stories from their friends. Each friend of the user is identified by a circle, that has their Story or user icon, followed by a username and status of messages sent or received between you and friends.
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Right Side

Moving over to the right side users can find the "Discover" section where popular posts, media sources, and  the community post their Stories. One of the new additions is when a story from a publisher ends you are automatically sent to the next publisher's content to continue viewing content.


Snapchat User's thoughts

Many of the users do not like how their stories have moved from the Stories (now Discover) section to Chat, some are finding it hard to navigate the application and to use the features they love. Will this be a issue for Snapchat, probably not knowing how quick users are at adapting to change.