Aside from the obvious "this looks like the new myspace and windows 8 mashed together", I would be curious to see how this concept would fare with what people ACTUALLY post to Facebook. People with no concept of image quality or resolution. People I call my friends :)
A New Look for Facebook
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#32It just doesn't work
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#33Notice how there are no ads in the layout.
The ads are often what make a layout tricky, as is providing a reliable degradation for low-end browsers and computers.
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#34Have to admire how thorough the designer was. Redesigning even the "events" pages? That's some level of detail there. And this redesign will probably work across tablets and phones too, as everything is "big" and "tablety". But I would not want my Facebook profile to turn into a Metro UI-esque photo collage lacking detail or order.
I totally disagree.
They weren't thorough enough to really bother with much of the text anywhere, given the amount of lorem ipsum and many-gendered John Smiths.
Content wasn't really top of the list of priorities, it seems, which I think is a bit of a mistake if you're trying to 're-design' something driven entirely by content.
Despite that, this concept is pretty much all about an in-your-face layout of pretty pictures that looks incredibly difficult to make any real sense of, and might as well be a collage of 2013's cargo-cult trends-to-come.
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#35This is really pretty.
This is impossible to use.
This doesn't take into account the fact that not all photos are stock photos, not all monitors are good at rendering fine serif fonts on dark backgrounds, some users need affordances for buttons and interactors, and that the fluid grid with no spacing whatsoever between content areas makes some information nearly impossible to scan.
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#36I'm sure they'll love the absence of the ad space plastering the current site.
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#37My buzzword detector burnt out on the title slide.
Pretty though.
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#38Personally, I would find the design much more functional if there were padding between individual "items" and each item were in its own clearly defined box. Also, if we could keep the widths/heights consistent my eyes would flow much more easily. Essentially this would be like the Facebook layout right now, except with perhaps 3-4 items per row instead of one.
I quite like the login screen. In the new "Twitter Bootstrap" era of web design I think this design is much more what users would expect/be used to. I just don't like two things: the login button, because that color is not Facebook-y; and the background, because it's obnoxious, basically says "look at all the cool people using Facebook, come join us!", and one thing I've always liked Facebook for not doing). Take away these two and it looks amazing (and functional).
All of this could happen without changing any aesthetically fundamental components.
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#39Awesome, I look forward to purchasing my OEM copy of Facebook Home Premium 8!
My thoughts exactly, except my joke was going to be the reverse.
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#40Visually 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…
I always thought the timeline was the worst thing that could happen to the your profile usability wise ... I was just proven wrong.