Pinterest is Bringing Back Some of its Features in its Design Update

With the social media fever rising high like never before and people becoming Facebook-maniac and busy tweeting, the relevantly new kid on the block, Pinterest should not be given a miss. The visually appealing digital board is the favored cupcake of the business owners, who are actively becoming the pinners. Like the prevailing game of the rule, when you scale the popularity chart, you tend to offer more. So Pinterest in order to let its momentum going went for a redesigning, where it changed some of its existing features. The revamping of the site did not go well with its loyalists and after a major backlash; it is restoring some of its features in the recent update.

PInterest made known the Visual Power of Social Media

Like in the search results page, it is the video links which the users tend to click because of the interesting appeal of the videos and it proves the success of this combined visual and aural medium. With Google’s algorithm updates, the webmasters are resorting to incorporating quality content as it is the need of the hour where words should bleed, hooking the attention of the target audience in a niche. It is Pinterest, which made the business owners to realize the impact of the visual medium. Pinterest, which is synonymous with the pinning of high-resolution images that catch your fancy, it is the medium the e-sellers choose to showcase their wide variety of products and the buyers step in to lock in their memories the products of their choice.

The Features being restored in the Site’s Design

Pinterest did not only make the tongues wagging with its potential and eye-grabbing look, it made the big shot Ebay to have a Pinterest-inspired design. When Pinterest went for a redesign in March, its loyalists became a disgruntled lot. The old features like “via” links and @-mention functionality is back to satisfy its users. Since it is the combined effect of social media which is making the users to be soaked in the urge to share and engage themselves socially, Pinterest is walking that extra mile to add some of the familiar features that are big hits with its rival social networking channels. For instance, predictive search and Facebook-style notification scroll in the upper right hand side of the site is going to be added in Pinterest to offer an enhanced experience to the users.

How do you Get it?

The pinners who want to abide by the present trend to “pin it” will have to face nothing disappointing, in terms of the pleasant user experience. The “get it now” button at the top of their feed will easily make the pinners to opt for the newly designed mode. The e-sellers should find out the best ways of engagement in Pinterest so that they are able to exploit this resourceful social media platform and develop their business. The latest Pinterest design and the decision of putting back the old features show that how eager it is to offer that ‘extra’ to the pinners and hold on to them.