Home » big picture

Facebook: Efficient ugliness?

Submitted by on 11/16/2010 – 1:37 pmAdd comment

Interesting recent item in The Washington Post by Blake Gopnik titled "Facebook's Popularity Doesn't Seem to Mesh With Its Bland Design." The article explores at length why Facebook looks the way it does, and how its design is almost invisible to us. The story is accompanied by a FB home page graphic redesign by Bruce Mau Design.They spent as much time on redesigning its functionality as on its appearance.

Also, check out the Pro vs. Con essays about Facebook, from designers Paddy Harrington (Bruce Mau Design) and Bill Moggridge (IDEO, Cooper-Hewitt).
 

PrintFriendlyEmailShare

No related posts, but check around GlimmerSite for lots of other interesting articles.

Join in the Glimmer conversation. Leave a comment!

Add your comment below, or trackback from your own site. You can also subscribe to these comments via RSS.

Be nice. Keep it clean. Stay on topic. No spam.

If you want, you can use these code tags to add emphasis to your text:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

This is a Gravatar-enabled weblog. To get your own globally-recognized-avatar, please register at Gravatar.

CAPTCHA Image
*

CommentLuv badge