Layers, rebuilt
A new interface, layers back on the front page, projects, a designers directory, and search that actually finds things.
Layers has been rebuilt from the ground up. New interface, new foundations, and a long list of things that were missing. The headlines:
A completely new interface
Every screen has been redrawn — the feed, profiles, the layer view, settings, the lot. Denser where it should be dense, calmer where it should be calm, and consistent in a way the old one never quite managed. It works properly on a phone now, which is where a lot of you were browsing anyway.
Layers are back on the front page
The home page opens on the work again. Not a feed of commentary about the work — the work itself, in a grid you can scan. Switch to For you or Following, narrow it by category from the row at the top, and the cards cycle through a project's media as you hover.
Posts moved to Feed
Conversation has its own tab now, rather than competing with the grid for the front page. Full threads, mentions that survive an edit, and notifications that group properly and remember where you left off.
More than one image per layer
A layer can carry a set of media rather than a single flat image — the shots that show the thing from more than one angle, the states that matter, the video if there is one. Upload them together and they stay together.
Projects
Case studies live on your profile as projects: several layers gathered under one story, with their own page and their own link. For the work that needs more explanation than a caption.
A designers directory
Somewhere to actually find people. Filter by location, availability, experience level and skills — and by the languages someone works in, which matters more than the industry tends to admit. Profiles have the fields to back that up, so filling yours in is what makes you findable.
Search that finds things
One field across layers, designers, jobs and posts, with filters and paging past the first page of results. Layers are now classified against a vocabulary of around three hundred design terms — style, discipline, page type, industry, platform, component — so you can ask for dashboards in fintech, or brutalist landing pages, and get them.
More control over what people see
Profile visibility is yours to set. You can hide your email and your metrics, and block or mute anyone you would rather not hear from — blocking removes you from each other's view entirely, muting just quiets them without the confrontation.
Hiring, properly
A dashboard for your own job listings, expiry notices so nothing dead stays up, and listings that carry salary, location and remote policy as real fields rather than buried in the description.
Collections
Back, for saving what you find. Yours to keep private or to share as a set.
We are looking for advertisers
Layers is read by designers, every day, and the ad slots are open. One creative, three placements — in the feed, in the grid, or in the sidebar — reviewed by a human before anything runs, and priced per placement rather than per impression. If you are hiring designers, selling tools designers use, or launching something you want this audience to see, take a look at advertising on Layers.
