{"id":7458,"date":"2017-07-19T08:52:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T08:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/with-new-tappable-gestures-tinders-photos-become-more-like-stories.html"},"modified":"2017-07-19T08:52:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T08:52:29","slug":"with-new-tappable-gestures-tinders-photos-become-more-like-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/with-new-tappable-gestures-tinders-photos-become-more-like-stories.html","title":{"rendered":"With new tappable gestures, Tinder\u2019s photos become more like Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Tinder today is rolling out<\/a> a new navigational experience for users of its mobile application that\u2019s designed to make it easier to move between profile photos and profile text. In the updated app, photos now take up more screen real estate \u2013 that is, they extend to the edge of your phone\u2019s screen. The way you move between photos and profiles has changed too, as you now tap on different parts of the screen to navigate between the photos and the text.<\/p>\n

Tinder is often credited with popularizing the \u201cswipe to like\u201d mechanism that now a number of apps \u2013 including those outside the dating space \u2013 have since adopted. In the app\u2019s new navigation, however, swiping is taking a back seat. You can now move backward and forward between photos just by tapping instead. For example, to move to the next picture, you would tap on the right side of the screen; and to go back to the last photo, you\u2019d tap on the left.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a tap on the bottom of the photo will open up the user\u2019s profile, allowing you to read their own text and see more information about how far away they are, their education, your shared connections, their top artists, Instagram feed, and other information.<\/p>\n

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The new design brings to mind social app Snapchat, which made gesture-based navigation a key part of its user experience. But more importantly, it seems to be Tinder\u2019s way of embracing the popular \u201cStory\u201d format found on Snapchat, Instagram and elsewhere, given that users are now able to move through imagery with taps, not swipes. The format has become something of a standard on social apps today, with everyone from Facebook to Skype adopting tappable photo Stories.<\/p>\n

But the change also means that the new Tinder app now makes user photos an even more prominent part of the experience of using Tinder \u2013 a move that means it will continue to be thought of as the \u2018hot or not\u2019 mobile app for dating. While Tinder\u2019s photos-first mentality is part of its appeal, it may be also why it can\u2019t shake its older reputation as a \u201chookup\u201d app. Other dating app rivals are responding to Tinder\u2019s positioning by focusing instead on relationships, as with Hinge<\/a>, or on presenting a broader look at users\u2019 profiles, as OK Cupid is doing with its photo grid<\/a>\u00a0and focus on questions.<\/p>\n

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In addition, now that Tinder\u2019s interface feels more like a \u201cStory,\u201d it opens the door to the integration of video in the future, if Tinder wants to go that route.<\/p>\n

Beyond being a new way to tweak the app\u2019s design for ease of use, Tinder explains that the navigational change is also focused on under-the-hood updates that will allow the app to be more flexible when it comes to future design changes in the future. The development team re-engineered Tinder\u2019s card stack with this new design, which will allow the company to leverage the new app architecture to experiment and iterate more quickly going forward, the company explains.<\/p>\n

Notably, the team shifted away from Objective-C to Swift on iOS, which Tinder\u2019s iOS Architect Engineering Manager\u00a0Garo Hussenjian says<\/a> is \u201cno longer the future of iOS development;\u201d instead, \u201cSwift is the present,\u201d he notes.<\/p>\n

The end result is that the architecture is leaner, the code is cleaner, and the new swipe experience is smoother, Hussenjian adds.<\/p>\n

Tinder says the user interface changes will be rolling out starting today to all users worldwide.<\/p>\n

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