Today, Facebook will be rolling out a redesign of their homepage. Selected users will see the redesign first, the remaining FB users will see it over the coming days. The new design will boost Real-time updates (very Twitter like), which allows users to post and receive immediate updates from friends, family, companies, and public figures. The emphasis will be on sharing media and links, which I’m really excited about. My biggest grip about FB’s previous update function was the nested message on the top that always asked you “What are you doing now?” and the attachment of your name with every status update. The new ‘Publisher’ interface will let users share links, photos, status, messages; and will make pulling in twitter messages more practical. I have yet to play around with the new interface, but can’t wait to see the update in my account.
Update: Facebook’s new publisher interface is NOT satisfactory! Yes, it can import feeds in real-time, but there is one major design flaw. The fact that the new publisher interface allows you to update more than just your status, your name SHOULDN’T be included with ever update as part of the content. This makes updates harder to read and impractical to use. They already have your FB icon identify the owner of the content, WHY must they also include your name to break your content? This needs to be seriously corrected!
[Via TechCrunch]
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