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A New Look for Facebook
- smokinjoe 14y agoI don't know exact details about the content delivery process for loading various pages on Facebook, but this doesn't seem to follow the standard they've set at all. It mixes together parts that make up the various content blocks that load asynchronously. It's really pretty and nice to look at, but it's one of those nightmare designs that didn't get much development thought.
- hnriot 14y agoIt's much easier to make it look "gorgeous" when the timeline is full of gorgeous people, beautifully photographed.
- prteja11 14y agoCouldn't agree more. And it kinda looks like Spotify to me.
- ownagefool 14y agoMe too. Came here to say it won't look as pretty when you replace all those photos with random images taken by random people from their phones but the parent beat me to it.
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- brudgers 14y agoI won't speak for anyone else, but better friends would certainly improve my Facebook experience. Unfortunately, I would be unlikely to improve theirs similarly.
- artursapek 14y agoTo achieve this, I quit using Facebook.
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- aeflash 14y agoI'm waiting for someone to re-do the comps with crappy quality photos, ugly non-smiling people, meme pics, and instagram photos of garbage.
- ErikRogneby 14y agoExactly. Where are the Farmville, Bejeweled, <insert app X here> updates in this design exercise? Oh and where are the ads?
- pvilchez 14y agoThere's an 'Ads' list element on the left under 'Favourites'. Which no one would ever click.
- the_bear 14y agoThis seems like a pretty common mistake among designers. As a matter of fact, Facebook made this same mistake themselves not too long ago. When they release the "cover photo" feature, they showed off how great it looked when applied to a bunch of professional designers' profiles. When normal people started uploading low-res, vertically oriented images, it was instantly clear how silly of an idea the cover photo is. Facebook seems to acknowledge this since now if you view a person's profile, it automatically scrolls past the cover photo so you don't even see most of it.
- ojr 14y agoCover photo a bad idea? Thats a weird thing to say because after facebook made cover photos available twitter got a header cover, then google plus, and even app.net... The cover photo tells a lot about the person
- barclay 14y agoSure, it does. But they're also overwhelmingly crappy for most "normal" folks: pixelated, blurry, poorly cropped.
- TeMPOraL 14y agoWhich is actually a problem with people. Attention to details, along with basic technical 101, seems non-existant in society at large.
- sprobertson 14y agoEveryone copying Facebook's design decisions doesn't mean Facebook makes good design decisions...
- reustle 14y agoPretty sure google plus had cover photos from the beginning, which was before FB implemented them.
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- tangue 14y agoI just uploaded a version with some crap instead [1], and it still works fine. These Metro styled tiles looks great whatever content you put in, the problem is the space wasted to achieve this look. http://imgur.com/H9Tri http://imgur.com/H9Tri
- edwardunknown 14y agoLol at least it will confuse grandma
- visarga 14y agoHey, that's not crap. It's herp herp.
- acchow 14y ago"it still works fine" is rather subjective. I much prefer Facebook's current and last design, from both a usability and aesthetic view.
- human_error 14y agoFacebook is about displaying posts in descending order. This screenshot is way to confusing. It's too hard to follow posts. It may work for, say, Pinterest but it wouldn't work for Twitter and Facebook.
- lifeformed 14y agoThe main problem I have with the stock photos is that they were all picked to match the color scheme. How is it going to look with random photos and clashing colors?
- timme 14y agoThe lack of flow that Metro provides was not lost when copying it.
- gdonelli 14y agolike
- johnmurch 14y agoLove the design and new ideas. Although judging by the way facebook has been moving it lacks 1 main ingredient, Ads. I know I hate them as much as you do, yet still buy them, but keep in mind that ad integration should be not only important with design but a must. Just my $0.02 :)
- jordanbrown 14y agoIts a gorgeous look because of Samantha, the profile used in designs. ;)
- Firehed 14y agoVisually 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 photos. Edit: scrolling down further, there are some other UI refreshes that I do think improve the experience overall - the calendar and photo album views stood out to me. 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! The dark theme on pages, for example, looks very clean with Apple and Adobe as featured, but I imagine will look pretty dreary to stare at all day.
- feverishaaron 14y ago>> but still seem to be a summation of current design trends rather than any sort of innovative new way to display the information >> I also agree that it looks a lot nicer because of the high-end stock photos. Exactly. This looks like a first-year design school project for these, and so many other reasons. This design would fall apart without visually simple photography that tailor fits to the grid. The right way to approach a redesign would be to collect an aggregate of typical facebook photos, and use them as examples.
- csel 14y agoPlus, in order to get the real facebook visual representation, try adding post from gaming companies, internet memes and random photos from articles.
- brianfryer 14y ago> Visually pretty, but the grid is completely non-functional Came here to say this. "Eye candy" != easy to use.
- mrharrison 14y agoSo pinterest is a fail?
- th0ma5 14y agoI always wanted to like behance, but they never hired engineers, only designers, and I could never get the site to work consistently.
- Aco- 14y agouh, and what makes you think that? I work in the NY tech sector and would argue the opposite. The Behance network has one of the better tech teams in the city.
- mnicole 14y agoI'm going to agree with you re:the opposite. The Web Design Served category (supposedly the best of the best on the site) posts some seriously awful stuff (stock photos, overuse of textures, bad typography, poor UX practices). When I emailed them to ask who curated the site and if they were an actual web designer or just a random intern, I was told it was curated by the entire web design department. I stopped visiting Behance after that.
- hobbyist 14y agoThe wall design reminded me of Orkut scraps :-)
- ditoa 14y agoReminds me a lot of the MySpace redesign video a few months back.
- unreal37 14y agoHave to admire how thorough the designer was. Redesigning even the "events" pages? That's some level of detail there. And this redesign will probably work across tablets and phones too, as everything is "big" and "tablety". But I would not want my Facebook profile to turn into a Metro UI-esque photo collage lacking detail or order.
- FuzzyDunlop 14y agoI totally disagree. They weren't thorough enough to really bother with much of the text anywhere, given the amount of lorem ipsum and many-gendered John Smiths. Content wasn't really top of the list of priorities, it seems, which I think is a bit of a mistake if you're trying to 're-design' something driven entirely by content. Despite that, this concept is pretty much all about an in-your-face layout of pretty pictures that looks incredibly difficult to make any real sense of, and might as well be a collage of 2013's cargo-cult trends-to-come.
- MartinCron 14y agoContent wasn't really top of the list of priorities, it seems, which I think is a bit of a mistake if you're trying to 're-design' something driven entirely by content. This reminds me of all of the times where I enountered disappointment that the actual functional implementation "didn't look as good" as the flat mockups because the actual content had sections of varying sizes. Content in the real world? It's messy and uneven. If you can't design for that, you're doing more harm than good.
- ams6110 14y agoIIRC Steve Jobs would terminate a design review if any placeholder images, lorem ipsum, etc. appeared anywhere. If the design didn't represent an actual use case he didn't want to waste time on it.
- k-mcgrady 14y agoIt looks good but it doesn't seem like it would be as useful as the actual Facebook design. It also remind me of the new MySpace design. https://new.myspace.com/play https://new.myspace.com/play [Video]
- sergiotapia 14y ago"nice" to look at, absolutely terrible to scan. I don't know where to begin and the 'noise levels' on every element is pretty much the same, making me feel very lost. Imagine a layman using this.
- espadagroup 14y agoIt kind of looks a little like the new myspace..
- geuis 14y agoPretty from an artistic point of view, but the Win 8 design influences are clearly visible. The only place I've seen the Metro look really good and functional is on Windows Phone. The ascetic doesn't work on the desktop. It kind of works on tablet (Surface) but the massive UX problems with Win8 prevent a clear analysis of the style in that form factor.
- codewright 14y agoAesthetic
- FredFredrickson 14y agoI'm not quite sure what you mean here. I agree that there are a few small issues with this re-design, but I don't see how Windows 8's "massive UX problems" manifest themselves here. Are you saying that just because the buttons / "tiles" in this design are more chunky than things that you're used to?
- RookToH7 14y agoImagine this design with poorly filtered instagram pictures and fishy facebook application ads all over the place, instead of brilliantly lighted professional photographs of beautiful women. It's a great work of art from a design perspective, but quite unfeasible to turn into the real thing.
- JacksonGariety 14y agoIt's a great work of art from a Silicon Valley marketing perspective since it looks so attractive. It's a design disaster.
- xpose2000 14y agoNot too bad, but here are a few observations: 1) It feels too dark. Dark is fine, but there doesn't seem to be enough contrast to even it out. 2) The news grid is too hard to follow. Not sure where a new story begins and ends. 3) You forgot about advertisements in these mockups. Ads can't be an afterthought. Especially for a public company.
- ladon86 14y agoAwesome, I look forward to purchasing my OEM copy of Facebook Home Premium 8!
- kaliblack 14y agoMy thoughts exactly, except my joke was going to be the reverse.
- ScottWhigham 14y agoFacebook purchasing your copy of kaliblack Home Premium 8?
- TommyDANGerous 14y agolol
- spauka 14y agoThis is nice but isn't it basically the design of the new myspace rehashed?
- cheneytsai 14y agoSo Facebook for Windows 8?
- wildtype 14y agoWow, what happen? Facebook reqruited windows8's UI designer?
- t4nkd 14y agoAside from the photo gallery, which actually feels improved, I think everything else about this redesign went in totally the wrong direction. A massive sect of users is stuck in the "give me simple, stupid" mindset, and the platform popularity is really to blame. While it's a decent attempt at "beautifying" the interface, I think it's somehow more confusing. Also, the design seems to be missing a way to shove hundreds of ad impressions into my eyeballs with each click -- a definite thumbs down in the facebook world.
- mediacrisis 14y agoAside from the obvious "this looks like the new myspace and windows 8 mashed together", I would be curious to see how this concept would fare with what people ACTUALLY post to Facebook. People with no concept of image quality or resolution. People I call my friends :)
- AndrewKemendo 14y agoThose were my exact initial thoughts. I am surprised this isn't the most highlighted aspect to be honest.
- d1ab0lic 14y agoI also immediately thought that this is very reminiscent of the new myspace look.
- dynabros 14y agoIt just doesn't work
- benguild 14y agoNotice how there are no ads in the layout. The ads are often what make a layout tricky, as is providing a reliable degradation for low-end browsers and computers.
- jblock 14y agoThis is really pretty. This is impossible to use. This doesn't take into account the fact that not all photos are stock photos, not all monitors are good at rendering fine serif fonts on dark backgrounds, some users need affordances for buttons and interactors, and that the fluid grid with no spacing whatsoever between content areas makes some information nearly impossible to scan.
- orthecreedence 14y agoI'm sure they'll love the absence of the ad space plastering the current site.
- anonymouz 14y agoMy buzzword detector burnt out on the title slide. Pretty though.
- brandonhsiao 14y agoPersonally, I would find the design much more functional if there were padding between individual "items" and each item were in its own clearly defined box. Also, if we could keep the widths/heights consistent my eyes would flow much more easily. Essentially this would be like the Facebook layout right now, except with perhaps 3-4 items per row instead of one. I quite like the login screen. In the new "Twitter Bootstrap" era of web design I think this design is much more what users would expect/be used to. I just don't like two things: the login button, because that color is not Facebook-y; and the background, because it's obnoxious, basically says "look at all the cool people using Facebook, come join us!", and one thing I've always liked Facebook for not doing). Take away these two and it looks amazing (and functional). All of this could happen without changing any aesthetically fundamental components.
- mburshteyn 14y agoFacebook, brought to you by Microsoft Windows.
- emersonrsantos 14y agoExactly what I've thought.
- onlyup 14y agoPersonally, I think this looks awful. It doesn't look organised and I'm not sure where I should be looking. Seems like a complete UI failure to me.
- alan_cx 14y agoI cant understand how this design type is liked so much. I find the whole "flat" thing confusing and counter intuitive, and these days not exactly new. Given the title, I was hoping for something original.
- hassy 14y agoI agree, flat design is in vogue (and is done badly most of the time). Where were all these designers with their beloved flat designs before Windows Phone came out? Rhetorical question, I know exactly where they were: designing and blogging about faux 3D iPhone-inspired UIs.
- danso 14y agoI scrolled up and down for about 15 seconds trying to figure out if this screenshot was supposed to be a concatenation of multiple Walls or if it was one long wall view (I think it's the latter): http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles14/398559/projects/6504647/69d246ffc5fac4a619e4b852b9c2f807.jpg http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles14/398559/projects/65046... That kind of visual confusion is a bad thing. I understand the desire to move away from lines and boxes within boxes. But elegant lines should not blur functionality. Also, how would this design look when trying to accomodate the many kinds of statuses that do not have banner-size-worthy photos? My guess is not very well.
- the_bear 14y agoYour last point is a huge problem with the Google+ Android app. I like the normal g+ website, but on the mobile app it assumes that every single post is just a pretty picture. That app is a usability nightmare because they failed to grasp how people actually use social networks (which is strange since the design on the normal website seems to understand this just fine).
- shmerl 14y agoNah. Their new look should be like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Barbed_wire_in_the_sky.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Barbed_w...
- dendory 14y agoPinterest for Facebook, basically. I'm not a fan.
- rickyconnolly 14y agoBy god, it's like timeline^2 !
- buffportion 14y agoIs gorgeous the new beautiful?
- qdpb 14y agoConsidering it is one of Steve Jobs' buzz words, no.
- slajax 14y agoThank you windows 8 for "inspiring" a whole generation of designers to rip you off. In all seriousness, I've seen this same style concept for more then a few redesigns as of late. I fear for the design industry sometimes. I guess it's better then rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows though.
- zaidf 14y agoWhen a huge percentage of your supposed new design is covered with stock photos of pretty people, it makes it extremely hard to judge objectively. On the other hand, that is a great sales tactic. I always felt it is kind of wrong for designers to use stock photos that represent best-case uses instead of typical-case photos. Best case photos show models smiling. The typical-case pictures are poorly taken photos or random gifs or someone not very photogenenic.
- kaliblack 14y agoHaving white on black and black on white next to each other makes it hard to transition. Hiding nav mobile-style on a desktop is an extra click for no reason. There's a lot of work into how it looks, but very little into how it will actually work.
- mnicole 14y agoFor years, before Behance redesigned their layout (which I think was sometime last year), the way that it sorted projects when you stumbled across the site was by popularity, so the popular ones just kept getting more popular. A project called the "Facebook Facelift" from 2009 (http://www.behance.net/gallery/Facebook-Facelift/314489 http://www.behance.net/gallery/Facebook-Facelift/314489) was (is?) the most popular project on the site, and is equally thorough with a video to boot. I'm going to take a guess that the designer here was looking to piggyback on the success that project had, rather than create an honestly useable/consistent design (not that this is a justification of how poor some of the concepts are, but rather a reason why someone would spend so much time working on something as tedious as this despite the UX issues it creates).
- volker48 14y agoThey should really use more photos taken with crappy cameras in less than optimal conditions so it looks more realistic.
- dmackerman 14y agoGreat, another mosaic of shit I can't visually organize. I think it needs more stock photos as well. Are we done with this kind of stuff already? Do people think that Facebook just haphazardly through together their current UI without doing extensive user testing?
- downandout 14y agoI like the look, though some of it would need to be changed for functional purposes. My question is...why not implement such an interface via a plugin/extension and actually make it a reality for anyone that wants it? It's possible from a technical standpoint. There are already a few plugins that add themes etc. but not the this extent. That would be an interesting business...create better/specialty interfaces for utility websites implemented by third parties via browser plugins. Maybe have a different and more convenient view and tools on Facebook depending on what you are trying to do on the site at the time (marketing view, developer view, time-killing view, etc).
- pestaa 14y agoThese better interfaces are called API clients. The business angle being interesting is something I'd disagree with. Look at what happened to "better interfaces to Twitter."
- downandout 14y agoActually, a plugin does not rely on the API and would not be an API client.
- pavel_lishin 14y ago> My question is...why not implement such an interface via a plugin/extension and actually make it a reality for anyone that wants it? Oh, a couple of reasons. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-bans-browser-plugin-fgs-and-its-developer/6955 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-bans-browser-plu... http://www.fbpurity.com/news/important-news-facebooks-legal-team-have-told-me-i-am-banned-from-facebook-because-of-f-b-purity/ http://www.fbpurity.com/news/important-news-facebooks-legal-...
- downandout 14y agoI'm well aware of FB purity, but if enough people were doing it, FB would learn to embrace it - probably as long as you didn't nix their advertising.
- krebby 14y agoNo. Just no. Too many carrets, visual clutter, and form over function.
- nickpersico 14y agoThis is really well done, but it relies too heavily on the users providing good content (clean, high res images).
- Link- 14y agoVisually appealing and gorgeously executed, but HELL NO to the "windowsification" of facebook...
- d0m 14y agoIt always looks goodwith hot girls everywhere; Sadly, my Facebook is more about old "friend" whining about temperature.
- bicknergseng 14y agoAmazing how high quality, HDR-blasted stock images distort reality. Replace those with more typical pictures of crappy iPhone pictures about things no one cares about, and I imagine it looks far less pretty.
- yablos 14y agoImagine this but instead of awesome professionally shot pictures it is just full of crappy webcams. It is awful.
- Zimahl 14y agoHere's an idea: why not code it up? I mean, Facebook isn't that revolutionary in terms of a site - there's a user with a login, there are comments, there are pictures. A demo site wouldn't need a scalable infrastructure to show off these ideas. I'm just not so sure that some of the site controls would be possible in a browser. It's very tablet-y with controls that we are accustomed to in our phones and pads but not on a desktop. Also, it's very horizontal, which isn't typically very friendly on handhelds.
- prostoalex 14y ago>>> A demo site wouldn't need a scalable infrastructure to show off these ideas. You can also get actual FB data via API.
- hcarvalhoalves 14y agoThere are good ideas, like the profile page (which right now serves no purpose on Facebook). Sadly, my Facebook is not a wall full of models, and this design seem to fail to account for anything that isn't a photo.
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- frankblizzard 14y agoInspired by Lumia 920 and Windows 8 :D
- tzaman 14y agoAnyone knows which font is used? EDIT: found it, it's Museo Sans
- arihant 14y agoI 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.
- tpowell 14y agoWHAT DID YOU DO WITH ALL MY FAVORITE ADS?
- JacksonGariety 14y agoAesthetically petty, yeah, but horribly designed. The best design is no design.
- bobdole5 14y agoIt must be really boring to be a designer theses days. This looks like garbage.
- j15e 14y agoInstant headache
- suyash 14y agotoo much going on...need to simplify it!
- telecuda 14y agoI pitched this Facebook concept on HN last month but got no love here. No interest or not seen? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151391609962845 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151391609962845
- hoffsam 14y agoThis looks just like Facebook with the Metro UI.
- robwgibbons 14y agoSo much visual clutter. Sorry. It's beautiful but so disorganized.
- meerita 14y agoLet'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.
- kgosser 14y ago"The models will have children, and get a divorce. Then find some more models, everything will run its course." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9dSYgd5Elk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9dSYgd5Elk
- therandomguy 14y agoSince I'm not as pretty as Samantha I suspect my page would look this good to glance at. Also with the grid view my eyes won't know what direction to travel in. So I fear that my page would be neither pretty nor functional.
- bmuon 14y agoWell, the newsfeed replacement doesn't do justice to the rest of the design. The newsfeed is terrible but I think the rest is pretty decent. I disagree that it's mostly aesthetics and no design. There are some good ideas in there. This are the main points for me: a. The dark theme is a bit weird for Facebook. Recently there was this good article posted here[1] about background colors and motivations. It says white backgrounds ("low arousal" themes, according to the author) are for utilitarian websites and dark backgrounds for hedonistic motivated designs. Facebook is both, but I think our moms wouldn't use it with a dark theme. b. The use of the screen real state is great. Facebook is really bad at this. This design looks like it could adapt to different screen sizes really well. It's almost the equivalent of Smashing Magazine for social. Really good, although it'd have to avoid horizontal scrolling on desktops which get weird very fast. c. All interactive targets are quite big yet they look good enough for a website to be displayed on a desktop machine. That's not easy to achieve. Overall I think this is more of a concept for a Win8 app, mostly based on the video in which it seems like the home page is a "live tiles" sort of thing. It could be made into a great website that uses the full screen with a bit of work. And that's a direction that most websites are lacking nowadays. [1] http://kaikkonendesign.fi/user-motivation-determines-the-best-color-scheme-for-your-website/ http://kaikkonendesign.fi/user-motivation-determines-the-bes...
- jakejake 14y agoGiven the change-averse nature that I notice a in many of my facebook friends - I think a design change this radical would cause people to absolutely freak out. I actually like this design though, it reminds me a lot of Microsoft's new aesthetic.
- sktrdie 14y agoThis is all very nice from a design point of view. But from a User Experience point of view, it's horrible. Each screen is totally different, there's absolutely no consistency between views. I would like for things to go back to minimalist and simple. After all, the human brain can concentrate only on one thing at a time, so why show 20 different things on a page, when you could make the experience so much better with just what's essential for you in that very moment? Facebook is a social network where you can view info about what your friends are doing. A good UX needs to do only that, and nothing more.
- photorized 14y agoWindows 8 meets MySpace 2.0
- Apocryphon 14y agoIt doesn't just look like Metro, to me. It looks like Encarta circa 2000. Not necessarily a bad thing at all. The aesthetics just really remind me of turn of the century Microsoft software.
- lr 14y agoSo, how does this design look when you put the "average" person's photos into the slots provided...
- TommyDANGerous 14y agoThis looks ultra amazing.
- piqufoh 14y agoIs this official and endorsed by FB? Or is it just an artist's mock up?
- ChuckMcM 14y agoSo on a somewhat random note, I wonder when it will become true that this sort of thing will ensure the design never gets used. My reasoning here is based on watching the evolution of the entertainment industry, and industry lawyers. So it used to be someone could say "Wow, wouldn't it be funny if Gillgan had a secret crush on Mary Anne and the skipper found out and used it against him?" and some writer for the show might say "Yeah, that would be funny, and maybe include a variation of that in the show." Except there came a time where the show would air, that "someone" would show up, lawyers in tow, and demand compensation for using their idea. Which, after some pretty amazing litigation, the studios paid, and which resulted in pretty much any idea that was ever shared with a writer, or person associated with any show, was put on the list of 'things we can never do for fear of being sued.' I'm surprised we haven't seen more of this already frankly.
- pgcosta 14y agoThis is a very nice contribution of how to "prettify" facebook. Facebook is and has been so ugly, and in many ways just complicated and not functional. I also believe this may be flawed but I think facebook really has to do something about it's design.
- realrocker 14y agoHmmm...let's put some ugly people in their and test.
- xenen 14y agoThis looks eerily similar to late Microsoft design patterns.
- chimpscanfly 14y agoThe full use of the screen is quite nice when there is less is happening, such as the About page. And while the Dashboard/news page is clean, it could be rather overwhelming to look at and visually cluttered with poor pictures. The one area I think he did fantastic in is of the displaying of individual pictures, events, finding friends, and company pages.
- kingkawn 14y agoThis looks like what ad agencies wish we did on the internet
- youssefsarhan 14y agoThe hype around this Facebook redesign is a testament to the fact that the user never knows what they want. He neglected revenue, typography, balance, rhythm and purpose, but that's obvious, I guess, I hope. Frozen within the current paradigm of Facebook, bickering with itself, it fails to push the argument in any direction. Good man for trying, but we have to think higher. Does Facebook even need to be a website or an app? If we're going to design so recklessly, why not commit to it? What if the solution was no Facebook?
- revskill 14y agoFacebook is all about marketing, marketing yourself to the world. That's why i hate it, i prefer the tool like Yahoo Blog: very ugly design but it's useable and useful. Facebook's new design just makes the marketing faster.
- thongly 14y agoLooks nice, but - and don't necessarily take this as an insult - it seems very "Microsoftish" for some reason. Nevertheless, I like it!
- jeffk1337 14y agoMy eye is all over the place with these designs. Very difficult to distinguish content/photo pairings.
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- lolcatstevens 14y agoI love that these slides only show white people. Looks the same to me.
- d--b 14y agoIt's an effing mess! With way too much windows 8 inspiration. No way facebook will look like this!
- kundiis 14y agoSeems looking like the new myspace?
- gtirloni 14y agoLet the usability wars begin!
- Joyfield 14y agoI wish i had the money to get a proper design for my latest little project http://Rendip.com http://Rendip.com
- nej 14y agoIt looks like nice, but where would the "Find singles around your area" ads go :)
- cicero 14y agoIt looks like their trying to ride on the coat-tails of the success of Windows 8.
- kidgorgeous 14y agoHate to be that guy, but I'm guessing black people don't use facebook?
- madprops 14y agowould you like facebook if it looked like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud96cWPBTws http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud96cWPBTws
- ddelphin 14y agoLove the design but its missing a key section... The ads... Without which Facebook would not even consider something like this
- eurodance 14y agoI'm sure they've put layouts through a focus group or two.
- chrisringrose 14y agoI'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.)
- vinitool76 14y agowhen is it going to be live? Is it going to be live for desktop users too or just ipad?
- languagehacker 14y agoYay, more linkbait from a small, unknown company that thinks they can do a tech giant's job better than them through the sheer power of design! This will look awesome on my Microsoft Surface. Can't wait for Facebook to take the hint.
- praveenyadav 14y agoIs this upcoming facebook profile or proposed idea?
- LeonimuZ 14y agoEven though it looks cool, I don't like desktop websites to look like overblown touch/mobile sites/apps. It just doesn't look right.
- Groxx 14y agoAll these kinds of redesigns assume we all have tons of high-res, color-balanced, artistically-balanced, beautiful photos of everything. Have you looked at people's Facebook albums lately? I think it might have a different effect with real data.
- ankit84 14y agoFB may end up hiring this designer :(
- so898 14y agoDesigners make dream Programmers fuck themselves to make the dream come true To this design, I think it should be an application rather than a webpage.
- laureny 14y agoAll the people in this presentation look like professional models. And "colloseum", really?
- angelomichel 14y agoIt looks like a Microsoft concept. It has nice features, don't get me wrong. But I wouldn't like it to be the new design because of lots of reasons. Mostly because I don't like tile-structure for timelined events. I find that very confusing and looks messy. (Plus looks bad when your window is small).
- frozenport 14y agoWhen did cluster fuck become a design paradigm?
- chimpoo 14y agoThe new look has tempted me to rejoin facebook...
- RoryH 14y agoAck! 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 http://i.qkme.me/3sfkf8.jpg :-) Otherwise it's a vast improvement over the current FB
- kmfrk 14y agoOne of those designs that make you wonder whether design without function is design at all.
- prisonguard 14y agoNothing 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-usability/ http://www.nngroup.com/articles/windows-8-disappointing-usab...
- jopt 14y agoThis just goes to show that the previously known as Metro look can be overdone just as badly as rich leather and linen.
- duqee 14y agoReally 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.
- BUGHUNTER 14y agoCome on, you are all very brainy people - is really anybody here using Facebook? Ok, for making money out of the dumbheads that do not care about their data, but using it yourself??? Crazy idea!
- 89a 14y agoHaving the cheek to just redesign and rebrand an entire website with absolutely ZERO concept or guidance from a client is always a red flag for me with a designer. Shows they don't really know what they are doing and deep down are just making things look pretty or on trend. Also for god sake make your filler copy a bit more realistic, don't just copy a single name down user lists. The over use of unrealistic stock photos is making me gag too, feels like I've stumbled onto Microsoft.com FYI the real world doesn't look like that.
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- tablet 14y agoIt's a very, very bad re-design. - Grid is hard to track and keep an eye on. You will constantly lose information and get frustrated pretty quickly - Long comments with 20 words per-line is bad for reading. You will have hard time jumping to the new line. - Navigation is quite complex and will turn many new users down. It is good for experience users though. - In reality you will not have such nice videos and photos. So it is quite artificial.
- theklub 14y agoIt should just look like outlook 2007 with each "email" being a post that will open up when you click on it. Obviously a lot of other minor changes but that would be a great interface.
- rhokstar 14y agoGreat- more non-data driven design innovation. Just. What. We. Need. :(
- simpsn 14y agoI don't understand why so many support this, it would be a terrible experience to navigate
- azharcs 14y agoIMO, its an extremely average redesign. Major problem is responsive design, its not scalable for content heavy sites. Same code scaling for different screens, makes sense in theory but is nightmare in practice. I've been part of couple of projects where-in we learnt the hard way. Hence, you don't see any big site use responsive design in major way. Almost all sites (Facebook, Amazon, Flipkart) go with a different sites for mobile & desktop. Also the use of white text on dark background is extremely hard to read. Hence you see pretty much every content-rich site uses white or light background with dark/grey text. An exception might be Myspace which went with dark background approach and failed miserably in engagement. When using any site, we like consistency. By incorporating panels which open up from both left and right side, it provides an inconsistent feel while using the site. My usage might be completely different from yours. It is important to keep the overall layout consistent with content personalized based on users needs.
- Draco6slayer 14y agoThis looks curiously like the interface on the new myspace.