Let's stress test it. He only shows a case scenario where the user has a 1600x1200 screen. The first example is the chaos itself. The rest seems eye candy and well done. I guess, with all the propaganda he's getting it will be contracted at Facebook.
A New Look for Facebook
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#192The new look has tempted me to rejoin facebook...
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#193Visually 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…
This navigation and grid layout looks ironically similar to the new and redesigned MySpace. When screenshots of the new MySpace were first revealed, there was lots of hype and praise for the new and aesthetically sharp designs. But now that users are able to access and use the product, haven't heard much more besides the usability being poor and product being an example of feature overkill. I would predict a similar result if Facebook were to implement this
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#194Ack! I wish designers would not always augment their designs with good looking people smiling, it only slants the emotional reaction in the designs favour when the real content in practice will rarely be as pretty/optimistic.
I think all designs should use unfavourable photos so as not to influence the overall design... e.g - http://i.qkme.me/3sfkf8.jpg :-)
Otherwise it's a vast improvement over the current FB
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#195One of those designs that make you wonder whether design without function is design at all.
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#196Earlier 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?
"!=" as "non-identical sets", not "mutually exclusive sets". This is generally the expected behavior of the "!=" operator in sets.
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#198Nothing seems clickable apart from the anchors in the mast.
Tile layouts have no place on pcs where pointing devices are used to interact with interfaces,however they seem to be a natural fit on tablets.
Nielsen wrote an article recently on major drawbacks of this trend.
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/windows-8-disappointing-usab...
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#199This just goes to show that the previously known as Metro look can be overdone just as badly as rich leather and linen.
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#200Really love this design, it is eye candy, maybe not very user friendly for most. Reminds me a little of the new MySpace design. One thing I did notice about this design, you have not added any space for advertising space. We all know how much Facebook love to ply our feeds and right hand column full of sponsored ads these days. If this was seriously a option for Facebook (which i know is hypothetical) they would first look at how they can montenize from this design.