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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 arihant »

I sure hope that the grid is religiously chronological. Otherwise, this design has the same fundamental flaw that the current timeline has - rearrangement of stories that is not easy to predict. The current timeline moves stories from left to right, into and out of folders making finding a story impossible. This design will do that to by rearranging the grid after every story comes through.

I'm not sure why designers would think this would appeal. This is like throwing a pile of papers on the desk. And rearranging them each time a new sheet is added.

Re: A New Look for Facebook

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Post by jmduke »

wildmXranat wrote: post #75
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 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…

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.

Re: A New Look for Facebook

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Post by ricardobeat »

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…

Exactly my thoughts. It's funny it ends with "lets focus on a functional and engaging user experience" - that's exactly what Facebook does right now.

In terms of graphic design, it's a huge improvement, not so for usability/ux. The timeline is chaotic. Small type. Navigation/content areas undefined, too much layering.

Re: A New Look for Facebook

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Post by maratd »

wildmXranat wrote: post #75
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 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…

> It's true that cleavage and nice smiles were there

Well, 50% of the people on Facebook don't have cleavage. The other 50% are doing duck faces instead of smiling. You can't design around some abstract ideal.

Re: A New Look for Facebook

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Post by ErikRogneby »

aeflash wrote: post #65
hnriot wrote: post #2

It's much easier to make it look "gorgeous" when the timeline is full of gorgeous people, beautifully photographed.

I'm waiting for someone to re-do the comps with crappy quality photos, ugly non-smiling people, meme pics, and instagram photos of garbage.

Exactly. Where are the Farmville, Bejeweled, updates in this design exercise?

Oh and where are the ads?

Re: A New Look for Facebook

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Post by artursapek »

brudgers wrote: post #59
hnriot wrote: post #2

It's much easier to make it look "gorgeous" when the timeline is full of gorgeous people, beautifully photographed.

I won't speak for anyone else, but better friends would certainly improve my Facebook experience. Unfortunately, I would be unlikely to improve theirs similarly.

To achieve this, I quit using Facebook.
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