You can now chat on your home screen through a pop-up window, rather than going to a separate place that moves you away from your main page (this it seems is also designed to keep more audience on that feed).Īnd now, LinkedIn is introducing its own form of ‘chatbots’. Private messaging has always been a big part of how people connect and communicate on LinkedIn, and here it looks like the company is making some big changes to grow that channel even more. Two of the most notable changes in this new version are how LinkedIn is approaching private messaging, and also how it’s moving to make its public messaging - its feeds - better and more used.

There are also more, easier to find links to newer projects at LinkedIn that it also hopes to push more in the future, such as LinkedIn Learning, which it launched at the same time as it previewed this desktop refresh in September. The new app is moving away from the busy pages of the past (see the old feed here to the right) and attempting to reduce clutter by reducing the navigation to seven areas: Home (Your Feed), Messaging, Jobs, Notifications, Me (your old profile page), My Network, and Search. It comes about a year after LinkedIn unveiled a revamped set of mobile apps, and the idea is to give the new desktop version more parity with that both in terms of look and functionality. LinkedIn’s director of engineering, Chris Pruett, describes the update - which has overhauled both the front end and back end - as the biggest it has had since the launch of LinkedIn itself. LinkedIn said the new desktop version will be rolling out globally over the next few weeks. After a short preview in September last year, and the small matter of getting acquired for $26.2 billion by Microsoft, today LinkedIn - the social network for the professional world with close to 470 million users - is finally unveiling its redesign of its desktop site, complete with a simpler, app-like look a new messaging experience that appears as a pop-up on the homepage and updated search features.

Linkedin desktop site