Have you heard that LinkedIn launched an iPad app last night? We checked it out for you and here is our feedback along w/ some great screenshots:
The homepage includes the unique UI that LinkedIn released on their iPhone app and have subsequently open-sourced.
The dashboard, check out how I integrated my iPad’s calendar, pretty neat!
The page shows you who has recently viewed your profile
A neat page that includes people in your network who have recently changed jobs, sort of like the alerts you get from our free JCA service
Diving in deeper to a calendar event.
My inbox and invitations list.
The news section, very “Flipboardish”.
The new tool is great for viewing information from within your LinkedIn network & very well suited to the iPad’s position as a consumption device.
But what would a product review be without critique? Here are our three suggestions to improve the app:
- Give users a way to remove connections. Now that everything is visualized, I see a lot of content around people I no longer want to be connected to. Give me a way to “clean up” my account.
- Provide a way to search for new connections. Integrate with contacts & pull down people I should connect with. The opposite of #1, I’m sure there are a lot of people I’m not connected to who I wish I was.
- Give users a a jobs page. LinkedIn is all about networking and jobs are a huge part of that. This feature seems conspicuously not available. Please add it.
So, what do you think about the new LinkedIn app for iPad?
Just downoaded app to ipad…still no way of uploading profile picture
Same problem with the safari web access on ipad.