Come on, you are all very brainy people - is really anybody here using Facebook? Ok, for making money out of the dumbheads that do not care about their data, but using it yourself??? Crazy idea!
A New Look for Facebook
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Re: A New Look for Facebook
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always thought the timeline was the worst thing that could happen to the your profile usability wise ... I was just proven wrong.
What were your issues with timeline usability wise? I think it's great, so genuinely curious.
The fact that it's not easily scannable, when looking at someone's profile I'd much rather prefer it to be a top-to-bottom list of updates (status, photos, video's, likes, ...) instead of a timeline with boxes scattered left and right mixed with other nonsense like places, friends, ...
As an archive it's great, you can exactly see what someone liked/posted in previous months, but it's not a feed, and that's what I would like someone's profile to be, a feed of his activity.
Re: A New Look for Facebook
#203Having the cheek to just redesign and rebrand an entire website with absolutely ZERO concept or guidance from a client is always a red flag for me with a designer.
Shows they don't really know what they are doing and deep down are just making things look pretty or on trend.
Also for god sake make your filler copy a bit more realistic, don't just copy a single name down user lists. The over use of unrealistic stock photos is making me gag too, feels like I've stumbled onto Microsoft.com FYI the real world doesn't look like that.
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
your argument is fallacious in that i never made the assertion that Facebook chose what photos got uploaded. my point is exactly the opposite of that. (but i reserve some responsibility here- see my other response which clarifies a fallacy in my own argument). a. Facebook does not get to choose what photos get uploaded b. Facebook knows the overwhelming majority of these photos are of poor quality as such, it would b…
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Most comments above your's point out that the linked design prototype looks attractive mostly due to the high quality images. If implemented as the actual Facebook design, much of the appeal would be lost. That is, the prototype did not take "shit user generated photos" into designs at all. Facebook on the other hand, does.
Re: A New Look for Facebook
#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
What were your issues with timeline usability wise? I think it's great, so genuinely curious.
Scanning two columns is not easy at all. The right column has some fixed elements but it also has regular newsfeed elements scattered around. It's really a terrible design.
Agreed. I'm kind of surprised the linked prototype didn't pick up on this. "Two columns is hard to follow. Let's do 3!"
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#207It's much easier to make it look "gorgeous" when the timeline is full of gorgeous people, beautifully photographed.
I just uploaded a version with some crap instead [1], and it still works fine. These Metro styled tiles looks great whatever content you put in, the problem is the space wasted to achieve this look. http://imgur.com/H9Tri
"it still works fine" is rather subjective. I much prefer Facebook's current and last design, from both a usability and aesthetic view.
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#208It's a very, very bad re-design.
- Grid is hard to track and keep an eye on. You will constantly lose information and get frustrated pretty quickly
- Long comments with 20 words per-line is bad for reading. You will have hard time jumping to the new line.
- Navigation is quite complex and will turn many new users down. It is good for experience users though.
- In reality you will not have such nice videos and photos. So it is quite artificial.
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#209Visually 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 think it's important to use ugly people with weird names in your designs to gauge how it will actually look in production"
Both funny to read and true as well!
Re: A New Look for Facebook
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always thought the timeline was the worst thing that could happen to the your profile usability wise ... I was just proven wrong.
What were your issues with timeline usability wise? I think it's great, so genuinely curious.
Everyone points out two-column layout as problematic to read. I however don't have any issue with it. It's not in any way more difficult for me to scan, and it also looks aesthetically appealing (sans photo cropping errors from time to time). Recent popularity of Pinterest (5+ columns) would suggest that it's also a non-issue for many people.