Design layout that gained no acceptance

(Google Image 2009)

(Google Image 2009)

Facebook has changed its design layout several times, and there is no denial that many people are satisfied. However, there are users who find the new layout a nuisance, especially the "news feeds" where other user's activities are published, including the unimportant ones like the quizes or games that they played. However, Facebook vice president of marketing Chamath Palihapitiya insists that the new facebook layout is somewhat useful for users, and that in the long run users will come to understand. Contradicting to his statement, many groups have been set up in Facebook that calls for the change of this design layout, where millions of users voiced out their displeasure and opinions.

Judging by the above, design layout of a webpage is very important. According to Reep(2006), when preparing a document one must think of the design layout, whether or not it will be appealing to the readers or users. As applying what Reep(2006) mentioned, it is therefore important for people in charge of webpage marketing to take into consideration the outer appearances of a webpage.

As the pictures above, the top one is the old facebook layout, and the bottom one is the new facebook layout. There are certain usage which are still similar, however there are some which are considered a nuisance by users,especially as mentioned the news feed. Apart from that, some users find the new facebook layout very messy as it is quite "packed", unlike the old layout which is quite spaced out.

Therefore, as Kress & Leeuwen (2001) mentioned, it is very important that in between words or designs there must be a frame, a space so that it will look neater and be much more appealing to users.

Facebook should revise their layouts if there are so many feed backs complaining of it, or come up with more eye-friendly layouts, to enable a much more comfortable layout for its users.

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Reference

1. Reep, DC 2006,'Chapter 4: Principles of Document Design,' in Techinical Writing, 6th edn, Pearson

Edu Inc, New York, p.173-190.

2.Kress G. & Leeuwen T.V 2001, Multimodal Discourse, Arnold, United States of America.