Thursday, March 14, 2013

This Is How Facebook Came Up With News Feed Redesign

The link to the full story is here



In any redesign process, it's hard to predict what exactly people will end up liking. Sure, you can do informational interviews and use feedback to create a better experience, but sometimes you just have to get crafty to uncover a few surprising things users want that they don't even know they want.
That's how Facebook approached its News Feed overhaul, which was announced last week. As a part of an effort to make the site less cluttered, the social network said it will be rolling out multiple feeds for categories such as music news (what friends are listening to and what concerts they're attending), "Close Friends" to see what your favorite people are up to and a section just for celebrities and organizations you subscribe to. The move is a part of a greater effort to give users more control over the stories they want.
In an official Facebook blog post, user experience researcher Jane Justice Leibrock detailed how the team worked to redesign the News Feed based on member feedback. To start, she open-interviewed users to find out how people "de-clutter" their feeds, and discovered many clear stories about friends' activities on the site, such as listening to songs and playing games.
"A look at our data showed that the stories people click, like, and comment on the most are actually the very stories they said they wanted the ability to filter out: page posts, stories about songs and games, and stories friends liked or commented on," Leibrock wrote. "Since people were clearly interested in these stories, our task became figuring out how to display them separately from News Feed, in a way that people would want to see them."

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