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Apple’s iCloud website gets a widget-styled redesign • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on November 17, 2022Posted in Apple, Apps, design, iCloud, web designNo Comments

Apple has finally launched a redesigned iCloud website with apps appearing as widget-styled tiles instead of icons. People might be used to accessing iCloud through native apps on their iPhones, iPads or Mac, but this is a welcome change for folks who use the website to quickly access some photos, documents, notes and reminders or delete some of the unused files to free up space. The iCloud website is also particularly useful for people who use a different computer at work, or for people who have an iPhone and a Windows laptop. You don’t have to install any app to access and edit your notes from a computer for instance. As MacRumors noted, the company has been testing the new design with app tiles for a few weeks, and now it is rolling it out for all users. iCloud site’s legacy design just showed app icons when you logged in, now it shows details under app tiles such as recent reminders, notes, documents, pages, and photos. There is even a launcher tile with app icons to quickly access some of the apps. iCloud website’s legacy design Image Credits: Apple With the new design, you can create a new page document, a reminder, a note, a keynote presentation, or a numbers spreadsheet by clicking on the + sign on the top menu bar. The grid icon on the menu bar lets you access apps. It also hosts options for checking your storage and change your plan. The websity layout is now customizable. When you click on the ‘Customize’ button, you’ll see the widgets shaking — just like on iPhone or iPad — so that you can move them around or remove them.

Instagram is updating its web interface to take advantage of large screens • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on November 9, 2022Posted in adam mosseri, Apps, Instagram, web design, websitesNo Comments

If you have used Instagram on your desktop system, you know that it looks like a badly made copy of its mobile website. The company is now introducing a refreshed design that takes advantage of large screens. Instagram’s head Adam Mosseri made this announcement through a post on Tuesday along with a feature that enables professional accounts to schedule their posts. “We know a lot of people use the web to multitask and we wanted to make sure Instagram was an as great experience as possible online,” he said. He added this new design is cleaner, faster, and easier to use. 🎉 New Features 🎉 Some “finally features” that I think you’re going to be excited about… – Schedule Posts (coming soon)– IG Web Updates pic.twitter.com/5tyMxWh1n8 — Adam Mosseri (@mosseri) November 8, 2022 The new design moves the menus and icons like home, search, messages, and notifications to a side pane. What’s more, the explore/search page shows a full grid spanning across the monitor. The new sidebar expands and collapses based on the screen you are on. In the older design for web, when you opened a profile, options like Posts, Guides, Reels, and Tagged were hosted on top of the grid. So if you wanted to switch to another tab, you had to scroll to the top from wherever you were. The new design solves this problem by moving these options to the side. This redesign — rolling out slowly to users — will make it easier to use Instagram on large monitors while switching between different tabs. Sadly, if you were waiting for an Instagram app for iPad, that’s not coming anytime soon. Earlier this year, Mosseri noted that the iPad app is “not big enough” to make it a priority for development. Earlier this month, Instagram said it will soon allow some creators to mint and sell NFTs directly in the app.