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A New Look for Facebook

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Re: A New Look for Facebook

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Post by csel »

feverishaaron wrote: post #95
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…

>> but still seem to be a summation of current design trends rather than any sort of innovative new way to display the information >> I also agree that it looks a lot nicer because of the high-end stock photos. Exactly. This looks like a first-year design school project for these, and so many other reasons. This design would fall apart without visually simple photography that tailor fits to the grid. The right way to…

Plus, in order to get the real facebook visual representation, try adding post from gaming companies, internet memes and random photos from articles.

Re: A New Look for Facebook

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Post by therandomguy »

Since I'm not as pretty as Samantha I suspect my page would look this good to glance at. Also with the grid view my eyes won't know what direction to travel in. So I fear that my page would be neither pretty nor functional.

Re: A New Look for Facebook

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Post by mnicole »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #101
mnicole wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Maybe it's the way I've got my Facebook setup but I always get a notification on Facebook when someone posts to my wall, so there is no chance of missing it.

I've missed them even with this on, simply because I also wade through/ignore a lot of other notification emails from Facebook (birthdays, events) or just don't check my email during travel/vacation. I've also seen the email, gone to the site and thought the person deleted it before I found it. I'm fine blaming some of this on user error, but I still think it's bad design.

Re: A New Look for Facebook

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Post by bmuon »

Well, the newsfeed replacement doesn't do justice to the rest of the design. The newsfeed is terrible but I think the rest is pretty decent. I disagree that it's mostly aesthetics and no design. There are some good ideas in there. This are the main points for me:

a. The dark theme is a bit weird for Facebook. Recently there was this good article posted here[1] about background colors and motivations. It says white backgrounds ("low arousal" themes, according to the author) are for utilitarian websites and dark backgrounds for hedonistic motivated designs. Facebook is both, but I think our moms wouldn't use it with a dark theme.

b. The use of the screen real state is great. Facebook is really bad at this. This design looks like it could adapt to different screen sizes really well. It's almost the equivalent of Smashing Magazine for social. Really good, although it'd have to avoid horizontal scrolling on desktops which get weird very fast.

c. All interactive targets are quite big yet they look good enough for a website to be displayed on a desktop machine. That's not easy to achieve.

Overall I think this is more of a concept for a Win8 app, mostly based on the video in which it seems like the home page is a "live tiles" sort of thing. It could be made into a great website that uses the full screen with a bit of work. And that's a direction that most websites are lacking nowadays.

[1] http://kaikkonendesign.fi/user-motivation-determines-the-bes...

Re: A New Look for Facebook

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Post by cookiecaper »

catshirt wrote: post #107
jmduke wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

this is not a fair analogy. if a model chooses to wear a shirt that fit poorly, then you are allowed to question the model's ability to dress themselves. likewise, if Facebook chooses to saturate their pages with images they know are generally poorly shot, you are allowed to question Facebook's ability to dress itself.

but facebook doesn't choose what photos get uploaded. They simply provide the platform for it and the content is up to the users. Most users take photos with camera phones, not DSLRs.

Re: A New Look for Facebook

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Post by jakejake »

Given the change-averse nature that I notice a in many of my facebook friends - I think a design change this radical would cause people to absolutely freak out.

I actually like this design though, it reminds me a lot of Microsoft's new aesthetic.

Re: A New Look for Facebook

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Post by sktrdie »

This is all very nice from a design point of view. But from a User Experience point of view, it's horrible. Each screen is totally different, there's absolutely no consistency between views.

I would like for things to go back to minimalist and simple. After all, the human brain can concentrate only on one thing at a time, so why show 20 different things on a page, when you could make the experience so much better with just what's essential for you in that very moment?

Facebook is a social network where you can view info about what your friends are doing. A good UX needs to do only that, and nothing more.

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