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	<title>Comments on: Another Guide to Facebook&#039;s Newest Home Page</title>
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		<title>By: Ethan Moore</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ethan Moore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t mind the notifications there, and I can see how it might help mobile users to have it there.  Upper menu bars are more common anyway.

I can adapt to most of this; I was mainly set off by the constant dropping of posts from the Most Recent list.  I&#039;m &lt;em&gt;guessing&lt;/em&gt; that was a side effect of switching people to the new interface gradually; people&#039;s posts would disappear while they were in transition perhaps.  They seem to have gotten that straightened out now.  They just made a tweet to that effect recently.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t mind the notifications there, and I can see how it might help mobile users to have it there.  Upper menu bars are more common anyway.</p>
<p>I can adapt to most of this; I was mainly set off by the constant dropping of posts from the Most Recent list.  I&#8217;m <em>guessing</em> that was a side effect of switching people to the new interface gradually; people&#8217;s posts would disappear while they were in transition perhaps.  They seem to have gotten that straightened out now.  They just made a tweet to that effect recently.</p>
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		<title>By: Ethan Moore</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ethan Moore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It does explain a lot, though I&#039;m surprised to hear that.  Both programmers and web developers really need to learn the basics at least.  It&#039;s not new; I&#039;ve been reading about user interface design principles online for over a decade.

While there are many issues, one principle is: stability.  Keep changes to the interface minimal, and perform major overhauls very rarely. Changing the interface confuses users, offsetting the value of any gains made by small improvements.  I&#039;ve been on Facebook for just over a year, and they&#039;ve had four non-trivial interface changes in that time.  Some of them I considered mild improvements, though it wasn&#039;t clear they were worth the price in time and effort for them or their users. And this last change has been a mess, as I said.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It does explain a lot, though I&#8217;m surprised to hear that.  Both programmers and web developers really need to learn the basics at least.  It&#8217;s not new; I&#8217;ve been reading about user interface design principles online for over a decade.</p>
<p>While there are many issues, one principle is: stability.  Keep changes to the interface minimal, and perform major overhauls very rarely. Changing the interface confuses users, offsetting the value of any gains made by small improvements.  I&#8217;ve been on Facebook for just over a year, and they&#8217;ve had four non-trivial interface changes in that time.  Some of them I considered mild improvements, though it wasn&#8217;t clear they were worth the price in time and effort for them or their users. And this last change has been a mess, as I said.</p>
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		<title>By: Vanessa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You got me curious, so I looked around. I&#039;m not sure there &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; formal training in user interface design. I looked at the Computer Science course catalog at UT (which I can&#039;t link because it requires a UT EID to see, and let&#039;s not even get into the usability issues with that), and they didn&#039;t have anything of the sort. I think it explains a lot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You got me curious, so I looked around. I&#8217;m not sure there <i>is</i> formal training in user interface design. I looked at the Computer Science course catalog at UT (which I can&#8217;t link because it requires a UT EID to see, and let&#8217;s not even get into the usability issues with that), and they didn&#8217;t have anything of the sort. I think it explains a lot.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris Heidel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris Heidel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OK, this is hilarious. I do like the notifications on top. This way, you can always see the latest, just maybe not some of the older ones, plus you can access the &quot;see all&quot; easily. When it went bottom up, sometimes it would go off screen, and I couldn&#039;t get to the see all button or last notification.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK, this is hilarious. I do like the notifications on top. This way, you can always see the latest, just maybe not some of the older ones, plus you can access the &#8220;see all&#8221; easily. When it went bottom up, sometimes it would go off screen, and I couldn&#8217;t get to the see all button or last notification.</p>
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