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Blair Beckwith
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11 months ago
in New Facebook Design: I’m liking it. Shorter, more focused pages that concentrate on one particular type of media (i.e. feed… › Yongfook | Web Producer and Consultant based in Tokyo on Yongfook.com
It's too different. I hate how your History is integrated in to your wall. I hate how it requires more clicks to get to important information. I hate how after all this, they don't let you modify the UI with colors. I hate how the advertising is more prominent. I just hate it.
At least add a option to switch back to Facebook Classic.
At least add a option to switch back to Facebook Classic.
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However, I'm betting that after a couple of weeks with the new design you'll forget what the old design even looked like. Hate is a pretty strong word (I've experienced "redesign hatred" first hand as the designer...and it all kind of died down after a week or so).
To me a lot of the changes make sense. To address your points...
1) Moving the more static information off the top of the profile page is a good move, to me. Like phone number and contact information - this stuff seldom changes so giving it top-page real estate is kind of pointless, or at least, detrimental to other, possibly more exciting information that could be shown, given a finite page size.
2) UI modification - Facebook has never really been about this. Their MO with regard to design has always been about fixed standards, and keeping them high.
3) Ads are a reality of free web services. Nothing really to complain about here. That they are more prominent is probably in response to poor CTRs from their previous position (left sidebar, below all the user options - as a publisher myself I did think that was a pretty naff ad placement). Just be thankful they are cordoned off in their own little ad area for now and not creeping into our activity feeds...