Vostok ♥ Tuenti

written by Javier on 12/05/2009

Tuenti, the leading social network in Spain just semi-released a new version and we, Vostok, collaborated with their design team assessing in usability and interaction design matters. It’s not like we are happy about it, it’s more like we are overflowing with pride.

Tuenti is one of the three most used websites in Spain together with Google and perhaps some online newspaper. Astronomic numbers on usage time, milions of active users and an indecent number of pictures uploaded everyday. It’s the drug our youngsters consume every day in Spain.

The project has not concluded yet and some changes are still to come. Usability testing, user feedback and tons of data help the team make the final adjustments before they release the new version to all users.

The new design includes a few new functionalities, improves legibility and makes easier to do the most common tasks (messaging, uploading pics, creating events…). Most of these changes are hard to see at a glance, they are subtle. They need to be used and *felt*. You know, it’s not just about how it looks but about how it behaves.

There are 12 comments to this article:

  1. 12/05/2009alberto fortes says:

    Congratulations, a great job!

  2. 12/05/2009ignacio says:

    Sale muy guapo mi esclavo.
    :)

  3. 12/05/2009Josep says:

    Enhorabuena, con envidia sana (y admiración) de nuevo. Ya van 2 esta semana.

  4. 12/05/2009Jorge Sancha says:

    Congrats! You guys are on fire!!

  5. 12/05/2009carlos úbeda says:

    i didn’t know that vostok crew was working on that!
    i have to say that i am really impressed with the new design… and i don’t understant why people say there is no difference!

    there are TONS of (good) differences. filter in people search, for example is much better (finally!) and the fact that users doesn’t notice that is the reason of why is so good (you understant…)

    for me, there are only 2 “strange” (not weird) things:
    1) sticky status bar (so important?)
    2) lifestreaming based in profiles, not in time, and no mini-feeds for each profile. i know, tuenti was ever that way but i think it could be time for change.

    superb job!
    my warmest congratulations!!

  6. 12/05/2009Nicolás Alcalá says:

    Wow.

    Vostok rocks!

    Enhorabuena :)

  7. 12/05/2009Raul says:

    Enhorabuena Javier, grandisimo trabajo como siempre :-)

  8. 14/05/2009RvM says:

    Cool post Javier!

  9. 18/05/2009Miki says:

    Despues de la cena en riot el otro dia, (sí mucho vodka y demas)… he estado evaluando realmente el cambio en tuenti xD. vuestra frase: (it’s not just about how it looks but about how it behaves), creo que lo resume todo. se ve mas estable xD

    encantado de haberos conocido, y a ver si se vuelve a organizar algo como lo del sabado.

  10. 24/05/2009Sarah says:

    Looks a lot like facebook

  11. 27/05/2009PB says:

    Congratulations, a great job!

  12. 7/02/2010cari says:

    ola me llamo cari y os kiero preguntar como puedo entrar en tuentime meto en la direccion pero no me sale la pagina principal de tuenti

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