Some new designs for Facebook pages have appeared with changes to its home page, search becoming more prominent (no surprise there) and a few other tweaks.French tech blog PCinpact.com came across the pages, but there has been no response from Facebook according to Business Insider as yet to say whether they are the real thing or not. Although upon inspection the changes make a deal of sense.
The latest tweaks come after Facebook made a series of adjustments to its home-page design following a flood of complaints from users after its Spring redesign made the site more difficult to use.
Among the new changes that the screen shots indicate the social networking site is working on include a unified main toolbar to make it easier to hop to the stuff you really want without those pesky Facebook sub menus, which make it feel sometimes like you're on a social media treasure hunt, which is something I never want to go on, but that could just be me.
In addition there are drop down menus to access things like chat and messages that all look good. Take a look for yourself.
Facebook's possible new homepage layout with the unified toolbar and search box
Facebook adds bookmark links on the left hand navigation sidebar
Facebook users to get new notifications drop-down menus?
New navigation on the left handside
Facebook getting a new photo uploader?
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I actually wish they would stop tweaking the site / they keep making amends without the user, i.e, (US) in mind, and making the same mistakes - the user experience is not a good one and takes more than a minute to get used to - I think "Facebook" E-commerce management should give us a call (Pixelgroup - 0207739 5549) and we would gladly run some user testing and build them a site designed around their users.
Thanks and sorry for rant -
That's a good rant. They do after all have a track record of getting it wrong.
A trip to Facebook this morning where they provided journalists with an update and some new statistics
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