<p>Flickr's new "photo experience," which has been in beta for the past few months, is finally live for everyone to see. While this isn't the full-on redesign that we mentioned might be on the way, this update completely overhauls the photo pages in particular bringing speed, functionality and aesthetic improvements.</p><p>The first point of focus for the Flickr team was speed. The new photo experience is supposedly 20x faster, meaning no more waiting between photos for all of the information to load. Click on over to the next photo and assuming your Internet speed is sufficient it'll likely be loaded before you blink. It's a dramatic improvement over earlier iterations and although a timeframe isn't given, the speed improvements are said to be making their way to the rest of Flickr's experience shortly.</p><p>The next point of focus for Flickr was to improve the visual hierarchy in the experience. Whereas before there was a great deal of unneeded text and information on display, the view has since been cleaned up, making sure that the title and description are presented right next to your image, bringing the story and photo together more intuitively than before.</p><p>Included below the title and description are the favorites and comments (as usual); however, Yahoo cleaned up the experience.</p><p><a href="http://petapixel.com/2014/03/27/flickrs-new-photo-experience-goes-live-everyone/">Keep reading...</a></p>