The Facebook redesign continues to happen and the social network has been trying to make itself better by the day. Speaking of the current design, there is not much I have against it save for the fact I hate the extensive toolbar at the bottom. First, I never use it, second it just irritates being there.
There are reports of another redesign coming up anytime soon from Facebook and it’s already been tested out for a few. Before I proceed to what are the new things you might encounter in the redesign I personally think it needs to have something to control the news feed storm in some manner. Which brings me to an earlier discussion I talked about where Facebook is actually trying to cut pull the leg of the applications ending those status updates. Which is a breather for me at least.
Coming over to the changes, I haven’t personally encountered but looking at the images provided by Om Malik, the home page appears very very neat. The other changes include:
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Re-aligning the search and Facebook link to the left and pushing links to our inbox, profile, friends and Account Settings to the right. The Account menu has your settings, login, etc placed in the drop down menu and thankfully there is less of a clutter at the top.
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The bookmark option is made more visible given that users find pretty useful.
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The removal of the awful toolbar at the bottom. They have just taken the most important chunk of it; that chat box and kept it at the same place as it has been.
Those are just a few to name with. But from how I look at it, I personally think the Facebook homepage shows more of a resemblance with the Facebook Lite that the social network has been trying to roll out. These are some very good moves Facebook is taking to help addictive users stay alive with a much lesser storm of feeds hurling down on their home page.
What is your take on the Redesign? More importantly how many of you are willing to digest this one?
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