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For those thinking if it means Facebook Desktop app, I highly doubt it. Most likely Dock icon in the examples is a good indication why they made it -- Facebook'

by flixic 9y ago

For those thinking if it means Facebook Desktop app, I highly doubt it. Most likely Dock icon in the examples is a good indication why they made it -- Facebook's Origami Studio, a design prototyping tool. Or it's about Facebook Messenger / Workplace desktop app.

wlesieutre 9y ago
On the one hand, a Facebook Messenger app would have people spending less time on the website. On the other, Facebook would use it to mine more usage information from your computer than they can get to from inside the browser sandbox. Presumably they'd sidestep the Mac App Store's sandboxing requirement and just distribute it through their website.
- colatkinson 9y ago
  They're already kind of separating Messenger from the main Facebook site. It's a separate app on mobile, and on desktop you can go to https://messenger.com https://messenger.com. They don't even have Facebook in the name anymore.
- cookiecaper 9y ago
  Facebook, like all major software companies, is concerned about corporate platform dominance. As long as they're controlling the underlying platform, they are happy. As a sibling commenter says, they already have non-Facebook-branded messaging apps, including messenger.com, WhatsApp, and Instagram. Expanding that surface area to include those who still manually install desktop messengers is natural.
bobwaycott 9y ago
Why didn't you just click the link before adding this comment? It's a Sketch template.
- flixic 9y ago
  I'm well aware it's a Sketch template, designer here. My comment is a speculation why Facebook's Design team would be producing Desktop design templates considering they don't make any native apps yet.
  - 0x4a42 9y ago
    Maybe they have their own private desktop apps for internal use.