To build the redesigned News Feed, Facebook designers quarantined themselves into a plush living room-style office with a live feed of users testing out the new product. They didn’t really have a set plan, other than making the user experience simpler and better. Two designers recently spoke with Taxi, a site celebrating design, about the experience of creating the new Facebook News Feed.
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One of the leading minds behind Facebook’s mobile-first push is leaving the company. TechCrunch reported that Rasmus Andersson, Facebook’s lead mobile designer, has taken a job at Dropbox, working with the design and engineering teams.
Is Facebook on another acquisition binge? Just days after announcing that the team from storytelling social network Storylane would join the social network, the company announced its acquisition of San Francisco- and New York-based design agency Hot Studio in a note on the Facebook Design page.
Facebook said it will create a design team in its office in New York, expanding beyond its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., where its designers are generally based.
Facebook introduced a minor design change, making the background of permanent link pages light blue, to reflect the color scheme of timeline.
More Facebook users are seeing a new layout for the display of photos within Facebook, where captions and comments appear to the right of the image, rather than below it.
A Palo Alto start-up has found a creative way to give talented people life-changing opportunities to collaborative with big artists and big brands through Facebook.
As Facebook has become one of the largest global brands, the company’s logo has also become one of the most recognized in the world, but who actually designed it?
The opt-in phase has ended — Facebook is beginning to roll out the new pages layout across the site today, a process that may last a couple of weeks.
Take a look at how cleverly McCann Erickson designed a photo album layout on the advertising agency’s Facebook page.
