Why, Exactly, Did Facebook Re-Redesign Its Desktop Interface?
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Yesterday and last night there was a bit of a slow-motion debate going on online about why Facebook has once again redesigned its desktop interface.
On the one hand, Svbtle creator Dustin Curtis, in a post titled “Whatever goes up, that’s what we do,” criticized Facebook for moving away from the desktop News Feed look it introduced a year ago, a design he called “beautiful” and generally praised for its use of “large photos, big user icons, better integration with Facebook messenger” and the way in which “it brought Facebook’s website into closer alignment with its mobile apps.”
But according to several people Curtis said he’d spoken to, Facebook found that people had been using parts of the site less. “Specifically,” he wrote, “they spent less time browsing areas outside of the News Feed, like their friends’ profiles and event pages, which are currently some of the most visited parts of Facebook.” The problem was that the News Feed was working too well, giving everyone fewer reasons to poke around the rest of the site, he claimed.
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