Facebook Redesigns The News Feed
One year after Facebook announced that they were having a redesign, they are finally rolling it out to all users; you should begin to see the update in the next few days.
When the redesign was first unveiled to a fraction of users, many didn’t like it. Facebook had to go back to the drawing board and took longer than expected to roll out the redesign, due to the changes required to satisfy users. Beforehand, users found the design to be too busy and said that the changes required them to ‘relearn’ Facebook, rather than easily navigating the network with their muscle memory.
The update brings the desktop version more in line with its mobile counterpart, clearly showing a firm focus on making it streamlined and easy to use. Echoing the ‘mobile first’ attitude of many designers.The drop-down menus and black sidebar introduced in last year’s redesign have been removed, as have news feed categories such as “All Friends” and “Groups”.
“Today we’re rolling out an updated look for News Feed so that desktop and mobile will look the same, making Facebook more consistent and easier to use across platforms,” Facebook said in a blog post. “You may recall that last year we experimented with a complete redesign of News Feed for desktop and mobile.
“People who tested it told us that they liked the bigger photos and images, but found it more difficult to navigate Facebook overall. The updated design has the best of both worlds: it keeps the layout and navigation people liked, but offers bigger images and photos, as well as a new font.”
The newsfeed isn’t alone in the redesign, it has also been announced that Pages will have a makeover in the coming weeks too.
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