It looks like their trying to ride on the coat-tails of the success of Windows 8.
A New Look for Facebook
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Re: A New Look for Facebook
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Visually pretty, but the grid is completely non-functional Came here to say this. "Eye candy" != easy to use.
So pinterest is a fail?
Not inherently; this is just another example of "correlation is not causation". There are plenty of ugly things/websites easy to use, and pretty things that are hard to use. There are also plenty of pretty things easy to use, and ugly things hard to use.
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#163Visually 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 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…
I'm kind of joking about ugly (and completely serious about the names[1]), but using real photos in your mockup will give you a much better idea of how it will look in the real world. Sometimes the lack of consistent polish will make the whole thing fall apart, so something that looks great with high-quality stock photos will look terribly with everyday average photos. I'd bet that would be the case here, with the focus on "clean" design.
Of course if you're making a website for models or photographers, then ignore that completely. The take-away here is to know your audience, and design accordingly. Facebook should be (and currently is) optimized for getting a quick pulse on what's happening in your social circles, and the designs presented here are a poor way to accomplish that.
[1] Long names cause weird word-wrapping and overflow issues in many designs. India seems to have a high density of (by my standards) unusually-long names, so if you expect to have a lot of Indian users that kind of thing is really important to consider.
Re: A New Look for Facebook
#164Hate to be that guy, but I'm guessing black people don't use facebook?
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#165would you like facebook if it looked like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud96cWPBTws
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#166Love the design but its missing a key section... The ads... Without which Facebook would not even consider something like this
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#167I'm sure they've put layouts through a focus group or two.
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#168I'm not too familiar with Facebook's APIs, but could someone just go ahead and make a live version of Facebook like this? I know there are 3rd party iPad apps, what about a web version? (Not that I'd use this one - looks too crazy - but someone could come up with a different look I prefer.)
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#169Visually 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…
Perhaps I'm in the minority here but I never go to facebook to find specific information, it's more of just a perusal of crap to waste time. In the regard I believe a grid would be an adequate design to move to as it's more apt to visually scanning items which is typically what I do now. The only caveat I can see is that items in a straight line lend the eye to snapping back to the original position. Not sure if a staggered setup would fix that issue or if slight archs would help.
Re: A New Look for Facebook
#170Visually 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 agree that with the grid view, you have no idea where to look at. The calendar view also stood out.