Somehow, the LinkedIn user interface has always been quite confusing to me. I could never quite explain why, and a lot of users had similar complains, without being able to provide much more insight either. The good folks at LinkedIn diligently acknowledged the problem and came up with a brand new user interface recently. They kept the confusing hierarchical tab, but added a lot of shortcuts in various areas of every page, which clearly help you find what you’re looking for, as well as discover features that you did not know existed at the first place. One that I had been waiting for and had been released last February is a public web profile that is made accessible to anyone, LinkedIn user or not. Mine is available there. You have to be a premium account holder to benefit from that feature, which makes it a good incentive to upgrade. Overall, I like the direction that LinkedIn is taking from a user interface standpoint, and I wish that they’ll keep learning from some of the good ideas that CollectiveX came up with.