Just to change the avatar Twitter, it took so much thought

2017-04-04

Twitter (Twitter) has undergone great adjustments in the past few revisions, the page layout and interactive experience, but the elements that run through and retain are -small birds.

Twitter designers do not avoid the love of various birds, such as "Larry The During the period of Bird (Big Bird Larry), not only the mascot of this winged winged into the interface, but also drawn the feeling of clouds soaring in the air in the upper right corner of the top. It is also in the revision of this 2010, Twitter designers redesigned the default avatars of each new user in the style of Twitter -representing the starting point with bird eggs.

In an interview with foreign media FastCodesign, Bryan, a senior product design manager who personally participated in the project, personally participated in the project Haggerty recalled: "This creativity is to treat each new user who joins Twitter as a bird who is breaking out of the shell. In this big family, it continues to thrive and eventually become a batch full of charming Twitter users."

In the 7 years since 2010, this egg -shaped avatar has greeted each one to join Twitter to users; in the process, Twitter's design concept has also changed dramatically. The design team no longer continues to be euphemistic and abstract expression, but is simple and straightforward. Twitter product designer Jen Cotton now said: "The fun of Twitter lies in the content created by our users, not the upgrade and adjustment of the brand on the user interface."

The more important reason is that egg -shaped avatars on social networks have derived different meanings. Now, when Twitter users see the egg -shaped avatars, the first reaction that Nakaje is in the mind is often not the birth of new life, but it means that the fishing (or zombie powder) account that may represent a variety of harassment and spam. Below is those who are eager to implement all kinds of anonymous destruction and have no time to upload avatars.

In the eyes of the Twitter team, the impact of this egg -shaped avatar is already very bad. For those Twitter users who insist on using these eggs, they often do not feel good about others on social networks. Some of the users who still use the avatar are because of their relationship with this for a long time, and some are because they want to keep a low -key; some do not care about changing; some do not know how to modify it. (Uploading a picture of a picture does have some problems for novices, especially last year Twitter canceled the uploaded avatar in the registration of new users.)

Since today (March 31), egg -shaped avatars will become history. Twitter announced that the new version of the new version of the avatar is gray as the background, and the curve contour represents the human head and shoulders. The new version of the default avatar has no age, race or any other characteristics. Any user of egg -shaped avatars currently uses automatic switching regardless of the reason.

If Twitter just gives up egg -shaped avatars, the blame is likely to think that Twitter is dealing with this serious problem in using a rigorous solution. After all, for those who want to make trouble, whether the previous egg -shaped avatars or the new version of the human figure avatar are anonymous cloaks for them.

However, Twitter was not a tide to change his avatar. In the past few months, Twitter has adopted a series of measures to deal with account abuse problems, and then it is more difficult to unlock the freezing account in technology, and blocks the virus through tweets. Even though the default avatar is no longer an egg shape, the user still allows to hide those tweets sent by the default avatar users when browsing the special stream.

Cotton said: "In this regard, our security team has done a lot of effective work." The new default avatar is just a small step in many plans.

The original intention of egg -shaped avatar design is to attract more users, and even the design team also provides a variety of candy backgrounds. The design logic of the new virtual character avatar is to allow users to find a sense of identity and belonging, so that users can generate the idea of uploading personal avatars as soon as possible for replacement.

Product designer Jeremy REISS said: "Our design elements: popular, general, serious, non -separated and population, and only temporary. Therefore, in essence, the state of emptiness is what we want to show."

It is very tricky to design something that looks common and temporary. After all, Twitter wants to use this expression that is meaningful for almost all Twitter users. Although the changes that can be produced by the default avatars are not very large, the design team still spends about 1 month to understand how to better use it.

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