The concept of Pinterest is to pin photos users love based on specific themes , they organize and share those beautiful photos via "pin", that is, users upload (pin) photos to Pinterest and repin those photos. It's sounds simple but Pinterest does gain great success, it launched in March 2010, and in August 2011, Time magazine had published Pinterest in its "50 Best Websites of 2011" column.
Official website：Pinterest
App Link：Pinterest App
Price：Free
Ratings：4.5/5
Pros:
- Beautiful photos are amazing.
- Great bookmarklets to make pinning easy, users will be more willing to pin photos with this tool.
- Sync desktop and mobile phones, users can share the same data no matter what the device is.
Suggestions:
- When I scroll the "Explore" page to the bottom, it starts to load more photos automatically, after it's done, the page bounces back so that I can't locate where my last photo is and have to relocate the starting point again.
- I have to tap photos and tap "Back" on the left upper corner while viewing photos, why not show me a photo gallery so that I can view photos easily with one hand swiping left & right even on a crowded bus?
Before using Pinterest, check out their website and request an invitation via inputting your email. You gave to register to pin, repin photos and do further activities, or you can only view photos on the website.
Desktop bookmarklet：once you receive the welcome letter from Pinterest, they will suggest that you can install a bookmarklet to your browser so that you can pin photos more easily.
iPhone bookmarklet: "Profile"→ "Account"→"Install bookmarklet" will lead to this page, honestly I tried several times to make it; however I can't find the tutorial video, so please try it yourself first. After installing the bookmarket, it will be easy to pin photos via iPhone.
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There are 5 tabs in total, if you are new to Pinterest and even don't have the account, you can start from "Explore".
- Display photos pinned by those users you've followed
- Explore all the themes on Pinterest
- Take photos to share on Pinterest
- Notification zone
- Your profile with Pinboards & liked photos
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- Following
You can always keep up with your following users, but you have to follow users first.
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Once you view a pin, you can do things as below
- Repin photos to your pinboard
- Like this photos to view them on "Profile"
- Share photos
- Leave your comments
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Tap the image again, you will be lead to the original webpage.
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Repin: users have their own pinboards, that is you can identify the category of photos and repin photos to your own board.
- Default caption, just keep it or revise it as you like
- Select the board you want to repin photos to
- You can share pins via Facebook & Twitter at the same time
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Tap "More" to call this action sheet, besides Facebook, Twitter, you can save this photo to your camera roll or email it.
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- Explore
You can view photos based on specific themes or just tap "All" to enjoy all the beautiful photos.
Photos are displayed in square or rectangular; however, this won't seem to be in a mess while viewing them, on the contrary, it shows a special sense of beauty.
- In addition to photos, you can view videos on it as well.
With the elegant interface design, all photos look beautiful, it's really great to view photos on Pinterest and due to the effects of style, when I want to pin photos, I will pick them up carefully to show my taste, I guess maybe that's why photos on Pinterest look so gorgeous.
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- Activity
As usual, "Activity" is the notification zone to inform you of the activities your followers and likes or comments from other users.
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Although it's not obvious designed, you can tap each event entry to go to other user's profile.
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- Profile
In "Profile" page, you can view your own pinboards, pins & liked photos, check out for the followers and to see who's following you.
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Tap "Account" on the left upper corner, you are able to "Logout", "Install Bookmarklet" & send "Feedback" to the development team via emails.
