500px Redesign: New Profile Pages, Discovery Features

October 6, 2015 Marco | Editor

By Greg Scoblete

500px pulled back the curtain on a major redesign of its profile pages, photo pages and the search experience.

A user profile page (pictured above) will no longer display square cropped thumbnails. Instead, thumbnails will retain their original aspect ratio. Profile images have been moved to the middle to make them more prominent, as has bio text.

The company also made the Follow and Share buttons more prominent.

Photo pages will now display larger photos. According to 500px, portraits will be 12 percent larger while landscape images will be 15 percent larger than before. A modal design displays images as …read more

Via: PDN Pulse

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