Dear Instagram:
Your software is awesome, thank you. I’ve just started using it much more regularly, now that my friends have started using it and we’re “friends”. So I have a suggestion for your app:
When I’m browsing my “feed”, I want to see the photos of my friends. Normally you accomplish this by scrolling, but this gets old and tiresome after a bit. This is partly because you after a photo there are often comments and such which make the amount by which a user has to scroll different each time. So my suggestion is this: treat each photo and comment as a “frame”. When you flick, or scroll past a threshold, have it flip to the next frame with the next photo at the top. Be sure to make it such that if you really just want to scroll, you don’t get caught by this (or better yet, have an option that allows you to turn “frame scrolling” on/off).
This way, if I just want to quickly browse through my feed, I can flick flick flick and be done rather than “manually” scrolling.
While this suggestion may sound whiny (what? you can just scroll?), I think it would add a great and unique user experience to your app. Sure, I’m happy to scroll through, but if it had this feature, I would be impressed with the forethought of your engineers/interaction designers, and I would be much more likely to flip through my feed, and therefore use your product, more often.
Thanks for listening!
(also, the comment and like buttons should be right below the photo, rather than at the end of the comments. or both.)