Facebook gets a makeover

posted on 1st April 2008 by Nick

Being avid web-designers, it was only a matter of time before we found out about Facebook’s new profile layouts. I’d first heard about these new facebook profiles a few weeks back but after searching on Facebook’s blog, I eventually found the article myself. Was I wowed? Hmm. Maybe I was expecting too much. They’re not bad.

It has now become apparent that with a multitude of infantile and ever-so-irritating applications facebook’s once-tidy profile pages have now become a mess. Users are forced to trawl through application upon application to get to what they finally want. All I wanted to do was to write on a friends wall - not to buy him a virtual glass of beer, not to let him know what my Celebrity name is and certainly not to tell him that “I’m interested” in him.

With that said, I do admire Facebook’s constant awareness of usability. They’ve seen what’s happening and have decided to tidy up facebook profiles once and for all. What a nice bunch of people they are.

As you can see the profiles are a lot less cluttered. Facebook look to be restoring a key aspect of their website that was pivotal in gaining one of the fastest growing online communities in the world - usability.

For more information, checkout Facebook’s blog here.