The professional social network has now made it easier for users to go about their site by simplifying the navigation bar. The change in the interface’s design came about on Wednesday, May 22nd, following changes to its homepage design and profile layout. It now features a much sexier design, it only shows links that “have the most value” for users, the search bar is now more visible as it is located front and center, and the entire bar disappears when the user scrolls down the page. The new appearance now closely matches LinkedIn’s recently revamped mobile app version.

LinkedIn’s Principal Designer Amy Parnell said in a statement posted in the site’s blog, “Over the last year and half we’ve had the chance to learn quite a bit from you about the types of changes that add the most value to your daily professional life, and we’ve brought some of these learnings to the new navigation.”

“When approaching this re-design, we analyzed years of navigation data to determine which links were adding the most value for you, and which could be removed to create a more focused and streamlined experience.”

LinkedIn has over 200 million users worldwide. This May, it just passed 20 million registered users in India alone, second only to the US.
This new navigation will be rolled out to all English-speaking users over the next few months.

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