Facebook redesign: Celebrating its 400 million active users!
Facebook has gone through a few designs, but just a few since it’s launch. It begins a new year breaking a new record: 400 million active users worldwide. WOW! That truly is a Happy Anniversary! Did you know that more than 35 million users update their status each day? You can also check out some interesting statistics about this growing phenomenon.
Facebook celebrated its 6th anniversary with a complete Web redesign (yes! AGAIN) which seeks to make the homepage search more user-friendly and interactive.
On February 4th, 80 million users received the new homepage update according to Inside Facebook.
Ok, so let’s try to highlight and identify some of Facebook’s most relevant changes and new features.
Search bar relocation
Now, you find it at the left side of the screen. It shows results for users depending on how closely they are connected to you, how many friends you have in common, etc.
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Top Menu
Attention please! You will see an alert in the left right corner near the search bar every time you receive a notification about someone writing on your wall or sending you a message. If you click on the icon, you’ll see a drop-down menu with the most recent notifications that you have.
 
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Left Menu content
You can access all the core features in one place: News feeds, messages, photos, events, and so on. Â
 
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More prominent Chat also situated at the left- hand menu
It only shows people who you frequently communicate with. If you want to see all your online friends, you must open the Chat bar in the bottom right-hand corner or click “See All” at the bottom of your left-hand menu.
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Peter Deng, a Facebook’s Product Manager, also provided a useful overview about the recent modifications and new features:
But…. are people still afraid of this kind of changes? Remember that on March 2009, Facebook had introduced a new Web site layout, and user’s reactions weren’t positive. According to a survey by that time, only 5% of the respondents liked the redesigned site. What’s going on now?
There is no doubt that the recent Facebook updated page makes everything more user-friendly, intuitive and interactive. The web site is turning to be more easy to use showing that redesign means that the company is updated all the time according to people’s changing and increasing needs and desires.
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