Facebook vice president of marketing, Chamath Palihaptiya, asserted that the modification of Facebook changes are stimulated by feedback from users and the new design provides members with the precedence to fresh pictures, messages, “feeds” on main profile pages and classifies mini-applications (Australian IT 2008).
Chamath Palihaptiya stated that the users will adapt to the new changes of Facebook once they are used to the new layout and features.
New Facebook Layout
Old Facebook Layout
In this case, design feature such as design and layout change are important factors that need to take into consideration. According to Reep, D (2006), design features are important in increasing the capability of audience to remember the significant highlighted sections and raising the audience interest towards a website (Reep, D 2006 p.134).
According to Amber, WS (n.d.), navigation between major interface items and alignment of fields are significant in interface design. For instance, if you need to left-justify edit fields, then make sure that you each edit field in left-hand side line up in a straight line.
Reep, D (2006) also suggested that white space is important in designing a webpage. Some of the webpage is overloaded with pictures, texts, columns, boxes and drop-down announcements which messed up the webpage. Thus, white space is important to lead the readers read from headings, texts to images (Reep, D 2006 p.158).
Besides design features, interface design of a website also needs to accountable there is interactivity between the website and the audiences. Walsh, M (2006) suggested the non-sequential and non-linear reading pathway of the website, which allows the readers to have more choices in reading the webpage and chances to interact through the webpage (Walsh, M 2006, p.35).
Finally, Facebook working team has to make sure that the changes in their interface design can meet the requirements of their users, so their users can enjoy and satisfy with the website.
References:
1. Ambler, WS n.d., User Interface Design Tips, Techniques and Principles, viewed 12 June 2009, http://www.ambysoft.com/essays/userInterfaceDesign.html
2. Australian IT 2008, Facebook makeover leaves some devotees fuming, viewed 12 June 2009, http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24328928-15318,00.html
3. Reep, D 2006, Technical writing, 6th edn, Pearson Edu, Inc., New York.
4. Walsh, M 2006, The ‘textual shift’: Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts’, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol.29, no.1, p.24-37.
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