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Instagram gets a beautiful new app icon and makeover

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.

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.

Steve Sande
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Steve is the founder and former publisher of Apple World Today and has authored a number of books about Apple products. He's an avid photographer, an FAA-licensed drone pilot, and a really bad guitarist. Steve and his wife Barb love to travel everywhere!