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A New Look for Facebook

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Re: A New Look for Facebook

#21
Not too bad, but here are a few observations:

1) It feels too dark. Dark is fine, but there doesn't seem to be enough contrast to even it out.

2) The news grid is too hard to follow. Not sure where a new story begins and ends.

3) You forgot about advertisements in these mockups. Ads can't be an afterthought. Especially for a public company.

Re: A New Look for Facebook

#22
post #17

Pretty from an artistic point of view, but the Win 8 design influences are clearly visible. The only place I've seen the Metro look really good and functional is on Windows Phone. The ascetic doesn't work on the desktop. It kind of works on tablet (Surface) but the massive UX problems with Win8 prevent a clear analysis of the style in that form factor.

I'm not quite sure what you mean here. I agree that there are a few small issues with this re-design, but I don't see how Windows 8's "massive UX problems" manifest themselves here. Are you saying that just because the buttons / "tiles" in this design are more chunky than things that you're used to?

Re: A New Look for Facebook

#29
post #7

Visually pretty, but the grid is completely non-functional. I don't know where to start looking to get at the information I go to Facebook to find. The other pages look better, but still seem to be a summation of current design trends rather than any sort of innovative new way to display the information (which is fine, but not interesting to me). I also agree that it looks a lot nicer because of the high-end stock ph…

True that. It's information architecture fail!

Re: A New Look for Facebook

#30
Aside from the photo gallery, which actually feels improved, I think everything else about this redesign went in totally the wrong direction. A massive sect of users is stuck in the "give me simple, stupid" mindset, and the platform popularity is really to blame. While it's a decent attempt at "beautifying" the interface, I think it's somehow more confusing.

Also, the design seems to be missing a way to shove hundreds of ad impressions into my eyeballs with each click -- a definite thumbs down in the facebook world.

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