Comments on: Facebook, I got lost in your redesign!

By: J. Boye » Blog Archive » Don’t let your redesign ruin the user experience

Sat, 23 May 2009 12:08:32 +0000

[...] their user interface to the dissatisfaction of many users, including my colleague Sara Redin, who got lost in the redesign. Other recent significant and disturbing redesigns include Financial Times, Skype and Windows Live [...]

By: Luthor Dare

Luthor Dare — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:44:38 +0000

I don’t like it @ all. The previous one was much simpler. I’m hoping they @ least give us the option to switch back to the “classic” design, if we want to.

By: John Gladding

John Gladding — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:16:46 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. Half the fun of Facebook is peeking in to people’s lives through pictures. I don’t care about the dreck like ‘what 80s movie are you’, I am more interested in people’s status updates and pictures. Even people I have not seen since high school, I like seeing new photos that capture a glimpse in to their life.

They are trying to replace twitter and it’s a bad move… all the good stuff is on the right now.

By: Dominic Cronin

Dominic Cronin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:52:40 +0000

I agree, it’s not an improvement.

My immediate reaction is that they are trying to become/replace Twitter. (Who knows – perhaps they have enough traction to do so.) You can get back to a fairly reasonable experience by hitting “Hide ” for all the noisy ones.