Looks awfully similar to the G+ feed. Not that there's anything wrong with that, just that its confirmation that G+ was probably heading in the right direction.<p>The bigger (no pun intended) news here is the much bigger ads that are now in the news feed.
Is anyone else getting really, really bored of the term "beautiful" being bandied around <i>so</i> much in this type of context? It has long ceased to mean anything at all.<p>I understand the importance of aesthetics in design, but it seems odd to show off the design under the banner "bright, beautiful stories" - surely that depends on the <i>stories</i>?
They always try to make it interesting by making it sound like it's about stories and people and stuff. When really it's about cats and food and silly quotes of not so famous people.
I wonder if Layervault is going to file a DMCA against Facebook too.<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/h07jo3d.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/h07jo3d.png</a>
As a teacher, I'm somewhat sad that text will be less important, but I can't say that I blame Facebook for emphasizing images over words. While it might be nice to tell 7th graders that they should be able to write because the internet is based on text, it's always been true that any day that might change. And it isn't like writing skills will be less important, just harder to explain to insular children of the middle class.
Looks great with professionally shot, high res photos. Most of the photos that will be shared out in the wild won't look nearly this good in the new layout. Same thing happened with the Cover Photo.
What is it that facebook employess work on daily? I see release of new features fairly often for something like G+ but rarely see anything from FB short of redoing what they've already done. Is this accurate or am I just unaware of a release blog?
I applaud this. Also want to point out that facebook and google are converging -- google is integrating more social into its search (<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/24/3904134/google-redesign-how-larry-page-engineered-beautiful-revolution" rel="nofollow">http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/24/3904134/google-redesign-ho...</a>), facebook integrating more search into its social (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/about/graphsearch" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/about/graphsearch</a>)<p>I'm glad we are doing something different, because these juggernauts are about to collide and the ripples will be felt everywhere.
Great. It isn't Schadenfreude exactly, but I hope big changes ups (that they have to make because doing nothing is not an option) like this accelerate their decline.<p>I don't think Facebook will go away any time soon but it will become another Yahoo and that can only be a good thing for the ecosystem in terms of opportunities.
> Goodbye Clutter. Hello bright, beautiful stories.<p>Unless you consider inline advertisements disguised as posts from your friends as "clutter", because uh, there will be way more of those.
If you have been following facebook as a developer, you will know that these changes affect the visibility of apps and third parties profoundly. It's not discussed alot, but these changes are circular over the years; there has been barely any innovation since the introduction of the newsfeed. This new sorting they've been working on is the default from a few years back, and the aesthetic is obviously a copy of G+.<p>Facebook may be considered a successful company, but the truth is that its leaders seem to lack in vision and have the tendency to make the same mistakes expecting different results. Zuck had some great intuitions (quick and aggressive growth, treating all users as wannabe attention whores), but the design of the product is circling around itself since 2009 at least. Their platform became a huge success when Dave Morin was in charge, yet ever since, despite the fact that it has been refactored a gazillion times, nothing substantial has been added to it. As a developer of apps that benefit from exposure to facebook, i brace myself for the forthcoming semantic changes in their platform that is most likely to follow.
I have an honest question.<p>Does it give them tactical advantage to redesign their site every year? Not that I'm against redesigns, in fact I think that they're getting better and better, but I'm curious whether they do this for the users or for their own sake.
I can see the Photos feed being an interesting Instagram like view of the Facebook feed assuming it only includes photos uploaded by friends and not all links to photos shared by friends (e.g. quick memes).
This is probably my favorite redesign from a major company so far. Very minimalistic and clean.<p>Also can't help but visualize how Instagram will come into play, with such a heavy emphasis on photos in this new update.
Announced in a YouTube video. I love it!<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaQQHYQHnMk" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaQQHYQHnMk</a>
I think it's commendable every time Facebook has pushed through a major re-design like this. They have a about the largest group of change-averse users of any site. Countdown to all of the complaining and petitions that will happen once people learn that their cheese is about to be moved.
Finally. I was wondering if FB will even get rid of its cluttered design. It took them so long... I like mobile first approach and clean user interface.<p>Looking on these screen shots <a href="http://newsroom.fb.com/ImageLibrary/detail.aspx?MediaDetailsID=4367" rel="nofollow">http://newsroom.fb.com/ImageLibrary/detail.aspx?MediaDetails...</a> still can't get why some huge images overboard the main column (looks like they have negative left and right margins) on iPad and mobile while other pictures/videos have margins? It was already the case on iPhone, but on iPad in the two columns view it looks worst.
If anyone from FB is here: is the live news ticker going away? I can't see it in any of the new design preview pictures. I honestly love that feature and would hate it to go away in the new design.
> Inspired by mobile<p>Interesting move to adopt a mobile UI to desktop users. I agree having a cross-platform uniform experience makes sense but like YouTube, their left sidebar feels out of place on desktop.
They are actually coming into line with the internet in 2013. Universal experience across all platforms? Awesome. New, clearer less cluttered interface? Awesome.<p>I also think the killer feature is the ability to clearly filter your news feed by pictures, updates, people you follow etc. Fot instance, I DO want to be able to follow some celebrities and tv shows on facebook without them cluttering up my newsfeed too much. Now all I have to do is select my following list and I'm there. Ditto for friends + photos etc.
The redesign really feels like it really will translate well to mobile, as in the Facebook Phone. Instead of a grid of apps, you have a strip of categories of information (feeds, events, notes, chat) followed by your favorite apps. Then instead of a separate speed dial screen you have those user icons below that.
The design of the intro page is interesting to me. There's a strong attempt to avoid the "boxes in boxes" look that, unfortunately, facebook itself still has. But on the intro page, the only frame is the the browser window itself.
Is Facebook actually featuring Twitter's Vine on their New Feed video? <a href="http://youtu.be/YaQQHYQHnMk?t=37s" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/YaQQHYQHnMk?t=37s</a><p>Also, I like it better, more content / less chrome.<p>The Follow news feed filter was much needed.
I'm not even on Facebook, and barely knew what timeline looked like, but having just read this I'm impressed... in part because it looks so damn close to work I've got in progress for forums :(
Any thoughts on how this will affect FB connect stories (positively or negatively).<p>I love Graph search, it has helped tremendously pin down who are users are without using FQL or our DB.
Overall I'm impressed.<p>These new Facebook UI updates proves that...
.nws_feedContent{-moz-border-radius: 3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;border-radius:3px;}<p>can go a looong way to improve design.
Looks like Google+. Obviously obvious. Difference being, very few people actually use Google+
Though I do not use Facebook actively, but I still have my account and do check it a few days so the new/cleaner look is certainly a welcome break.<p>Now, it depends upon what Facebook "pushes down the throat of this new feed".
If it's all the same but larger ads, spam posts or those app posts then nothing changed and if it did, it changed for bad.
Can't critique HN for it, kudos, but the problem is people are lazy and don't want to read. Tumblr is just another photo sharing platform, IMO. Facebook and G+ are running over each other to show display ads.<p>The fixation on better display ads is constraining creativity when everyone should be focusing on making the Internet a productive place for individuals.<p>The economics matter and shape the UX and server side development.
This is ridiculous. Currently FB limits your feed photos to 400px (horizontal and vertical).<p>It looks like they are increasing it to 550px.<p>This, literally, makes no sense. Current monitors can easily support 1000px horizontal, and, as a photographer, I wouldn't consider that quality.<p>Both FB and G+ suck as photo galleries. I want to see large beautiful photos, not 550px thumbnails.