The Instagram app has been begging for a redesign for quite some time, and today the photoblogging app showed up with an update featuring a new app icon and a UI makeover. The following video provides a fun (but probably quite fictional) look at the process behind the design of the icon:
The colorful gradient color scheme has made it to the other Instagram apps as well, including Layout, Boomerang and Hyperlapse.
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Inside the app, navigation hasn’t changed, but it just seems much easier to take a look at what your friends are doing out there in the great big world. All in all, it’s a nice change to a classic app.