A New Look for Facebook

Post by k-mcgrady » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 10:54 PM UTC

mnicole wrote: post #97

newhouseb wrote: post #74

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What were your issues with timeline usability wise? I think it's great, so genuinely curious.

As someone that stopped using Facebook shortly after they rolled out the Timeline (ironically after I spent hours setting mine up in Developer mode), I have completely missed posts someone made on my wall, only to have to reply with an apology weeks to months later when I was more thorough. I think my 'timeline' should be representative of photos I've uploaded, posts I've made that I want to highlight and events I we…

Post by telecuda » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 10:59 PM UTC

Post by barclay » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 11:02 PM UTC

ojr wrote: post #99

the_bear wrote: post #91

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This seems like a pretty common mistake among designers. As a matter of fact, Facebook made this same mistake themselves not too long ago. When they release the "cover photo" feature, they showed off how great it looked when applied to a bunch of professional designers' profiles. When normal people started uploading low-res, vertically oriented images, it was instantly clear how silly of an idea the cover photo is. F…

Cover photo a bad idea? Thats a weird thing to say because after facebook made cover photos available twitter got a header cover, then google plus, and even app.net... The cover photo tells a lot about the person

Post by catshirt » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 11:07 PM UTC

jmduke wrote: post #82

wildmXranat wrote: post #75

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>But I think it's important to use ugly people with weird names in your designs to gauge how it will actually look in production! I .. I'm not sure if you're serious, but that is either smart, insulting or both. It's true that cleavage and nice smiles were there, but noting it as a non-production look, - that's a bit bleak. The design looks great. I can't wait to hear my friends opinions as I don't use Facebook on re…

My friends aren't overwhelmingly ugly, but they certainly don't take production-quality pictures. Judging a social app's beauty by the stock photos is like judging the fit of a shirt by how it looks on the model.

Post by huskyr » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 11:10 PM UTC

Firehed wrote: 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…