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Yeah, I used to love the iPod adverts with the hip, trendy silhouette dancing away. Then you would see the average user on the train. Spotty, not especially attractive, and definitely not cool. But I guess that image wouldn't sell much.
iPhone commericals have gotten creepy - everyone staring off into their silent screen..
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Not in enlarging, but in sharing. Why are we sharing ultrasound pictures? Should we be? What if something goes wrong and the woman has a miscarriage? Who's keeping these pictures (outside of FB)? Who's sharing them with others? At what point is it ok/not ok to share pictures of kids/future kids? My point is that it's an interesting philosophical question that has a lot of implications, and I personally don't like the…
Why are we sharing ultrasound pictures? Should we be? How about: should we be questioning what other people decide to share with friends, family, the Internet? Probably not.
If you're not interested in other peoples' opinions of your content, and that's entirely your right, then I would argue that you shouldn't share it in a public forum.
Does seem like a fluid UXD. Shame android is second class citizen again, and you have to be on facebook to use it. Hopefully if it does pan out as well as the video shows, other apps like flipboard will start incorporating its flow.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.h...
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It'd be better if that world was not set in the 70s. Polaroid and typewriters? Who the hell has even seen them in person?
We had an electric typewriter in my house for years even after we got our first computer, and only got rid of it recently. So sad :[
I'm not sure why so many are describing this as a "news" app - it's pretty obviously a refresh of the Facebook design, and a much-needed one at that. At the given time 25% of Facebook is taken up by various buttons and controls; there's a lot you can do and a lot of places you can navigate to from Facebook's homepage. It was obviously designed for desktop, and then ported over to mobile. After a couple refreshes the…
I agree with this, but I would also like to note how similar it is (or can be) to Tumblr. With the different layouts and themes, they can start selling themes like Tumblr has, creating a new market for that. This trend of Facebook taking other companies' ideas is evident from the hashtag being implemented into posts. Who knows, they might even try to take over Google's search function.
FB's graph search?
Then there is Google's knowledge graph
So at the end, we as consumers are winners :-)
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5 letter common words can be used freely by anyone, in my opinion. If you want your brand to be distinctive and searchable, pick a distinctive and searchable name. There was an article a few weeks ago about an internal struggle going on inside Facebook about what their product should be. Some executives are worried that it's primarily shallow (in their minds) content. They want to get rid of the memes and have people…
Do you mind linking that original article? I'm interested in reading that. I wonder what sort of quality content Facebook execs are looking for. If most people are like me, I work a day at the office, go home, have dinner with the family, take the dog out for a poop, futz with the computer for an hour or two, then off to bed. Rinse and repeat M-F. Weekends are more interesting with family activities, but it's not a c…
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I agree with this, but I would also like to note how similar it is (or can be) to Tumblr. With the different layouts and themes, they can start selling themes like Tumblr has, creating a new market for that. This trend of Facebook taking other companies' ideas is evident from the hashtag being implemented into posts. Who knows, they might even try to take over Google's search function.
> Who knows, they might even try to take over Google's search function. FB's graph search? Then there is Google's knowledge graph So at the end, we as consumers are winners :-)
I'm not sure why so many are describing this as a "news" app - it's pretty obviously a refresh of the Facebook design, and a much-needed one at that. At the given time 25% of Facebook is taken up by various buttons and controls; there's a lot you can do and a lot of places you can navigate to from Facebook's homepage. It was obviously designed for desktop, and then ported over to mobile. After a couple refreshes the…
I have to agree, in fact I wonder why would they even bother marketing it as a way to share and collect stories instead of proposing it as a more visual alternative to the main app. I have the feeling that at Facebook they tend to half-ass things, like Home or the redesigned Newsfeed. They release an half-baked product and then let it rot for months with sporadic under-the-hood updates (I actually wonder why the hell…
That's their motto, is it not? "Move fast and break things". It's hard to expect anything well designed with an engineering attitude like this.