Design of the week 2.

Facebook Great Design

Facebook is a Great Design and this can be proved by the thousands of people who spend half of their day on it. Facebook recently changed its whole design. The whole site has been re-designed. I personally liked the older facebook, because it was very simple and the "important" and "interesting" things on facebook were visible at all times. ( such as pictures, peoples walls, information and profile boxes). The new facebook is a bit more complicated and its harder to see interesting things, because one has to click and find stuff, instead of just having it right there, like in the old one. Facebook is a great design, because it can be used by basically everyone and even though it has not been around for long, it is very popular. Facebook is a brilliant design, because it keeps people hooked to it for very long. It has achieved its goal, of not so much letting people meet random strangers, but let people communicate with people they already know and allow them to make their social networks visible to others and give their information out to friends. It also allows people to advertise themselves and this can also be dangerous. "Facebook isn´t just showing us information about what our friends are doing as a gift, its showing us information in exchange for money. They´ve altered the state of the relationship." The worst part is that facebook is selling peoples apparent private information to 3rd party sites. Still facebook is an amazing design, they have pinpointed the motivations of users at each step, and designed the screens in such a way as to make the default action the seemingly best one. They technically give you the option to get out of it, but they have designed the system in such a way to make it much easier to simply let it happen and make you stay and look at things that make you stay even longer and look at even more things.

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