LinkedIn, a social networking site for professionals, recently issued a major upgrade to its iPhone app. It’s darn gorgeous.
The app’s user interface mimics the large, bubbly buttons of the iPhone’s home screen. Each button directs you to a different part of LinkedIn: status updates, profiles, connections, inbox and so on. The app is fast and smooth, although it encountered a bug that also appears on the LinkedIn website: connection invitations that never seem to go away, even after you approve or reject them.
The most interesting addition to the LinkedIn app is a feature called “In Person.” It enables LinkedIn iPhone users to swap contact information by simply bumping their phones together; the connection is made over Bluetooth. It’s very similar to an iPhone app called Bump, which does practically the same thing.
The LinkedIn app’s massive makeover is similar to the one Facebook received with its 3.0 update. Frankly, I think the Facebook and LinkedIn iPhone apps have better UIs than their actual websites. LinkedIn.com and Facebook.com, in my opinion, are pretty rough to navigate. Both iPhone apps make the user experience far more pleasant, though they don’t completely replace usage of the actual website. (You probably wouldn’t wish to fill out your LinkedIn profile with the iPhone app, for example, lest you believe employers won’t care about touchscreen-induced typos.)
The LinkedIn app is free in the App Store.
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