LinkedIn is experimenting with a new UI that will place all of your in-app navigation options at the top of the screen rather than being distributed across the top and bottom bars.

That would mean all of your notifications would be up along the top of the app as opposed to having some down the bottom and your inbox alerts up top. Maybe moving them all onto one line could make it a little easier to navigate each section. Though where the post composer option is in this new set up, I'm not entirely clear.

To be very clear, currently, the profile, search, composer, and inbox shortcuts reside along the top bar of the LinkedIn app. The home feed link, "My Network," notifications, and the jobs shortcut (also the "Video" tab, for those who have it) rest on the bottom banner.

This new UI would merge all of these together into a single stream up top. Then that would mean you are able to scroll down the feed without the bottom function bar over your view. Which could be a better visual format, but again the post composer is seemingly gone and the icons have been reduced in size to fit into a single row.

That might decrease usage, and organic posts. But at the same time, I don't think LinkedIn would roll out an update without the composer being included; so that must be some type of error, or perhaps something that I'm just not seeing right now.

So, would that be a better view for your LinkedIn app?

In some ways, I can see the benefits, as noted above, but it would also be a pretty big habitual shift for LinkedIn users. Depending on how LinkedIn looked to roll this out, that could be problematic for the app, in terms of maximizing engagement, but I can also see why they would be looking to re-align the app around a more integrated notifications stream, and a less cluttered feed.

This remains in the experimental stage presently and may never be entirely released. Yet, this serves as an interesting topic when considering its future with the application.