The story behind Facebook home: trying to do better

    According to foreign media reports, in May, Facebook made a presentation to the designers of the harbour area, and presented a deep understanding of the application design. This video illustrates a generational change in the home.       At the very beginning of the video, Julie Zhuo, head of product design at Facebook home, said, "People never pay attention to the journey, they just see the final product and the design, go all the way to the ups and downs, and try the idea of failure, There have been endless iterations and discussions that few people have ever asked for. "The following video designing Facebook home to tell us the story behind it."      Although the final product has not reached the desired effect of Facebook, it is slowly returning to temperature. As Facebook progresses, home apps end up as mobile apps because of countless brainstorming and testing processes.      Real-world portrayal      Facebook designer Justin Stahl that Facebook should design products like this: reflect the real world, Match the real world to the virtual world we've created.      by listing their real-world experiences of imitation, Stahl explains some of Facebook's key features, respectively.      Desktop information flow (vinyl feeds): The desktop stream should be a place to get information directly. Users do not have to look up a lot of dynamic messages and not jump in different applications to get information. The acquisition of all information should be natural and should not be abrupt.      Chat heads application: "It doesn't matter what I'm doing." If my friend and colleague talk to me, I'll talk to him. I don't have to tell him I'm leaving and then come back for him. Through chat heads I can talk with my friends at any time. I can go on with the things at hand. It's like a co-worker greets you at your desk every day. "     Stahl also dug deep into the design of applications such as path, where the path uses pop-up animation to display navigation buttons.      Social design process      Video highlights the most exciting part of the vinyl feed's early prototypes, gesture navigation and fast apps on Facebook home.      At first, Facebook considered simply moving awayAt the bottom of the lock screen interface. "We design so that users can scroll up and look at the message," explains Facebook's Francis Luu. The background is my cover photo. But that doesn't mean Facebook's ' fresh Blood ' is the opposite.      In this design, Luu explains: Most of the interface space is no change in the big photo background, dynamic message loss of timeliness will bring bad user experience. So we decided that it would be better if the entire interface was filled with friends ' information? The video then shows a series of design details, such as a Zane comment.      Facebook then solves the problem of how to display the application. Slide left into Messenger, slide right into the most recently used application, and slide up into all applications. The designer initially considered offering three gestures to enter the application, but this could cause confusion. One solution that      Facebook is trying to do is to slide open several favorite programs over the vinyl feed.      Finally, Facebook continues to work on opening Full-screen Desktop launcher application gestures. Sadly, Facebook started without gadgets, folders, and docking bars. But Facebook is starting to add these features, now launchables as a docking bar, with a row of favorite apps locked under the iOS desktop Launcher.      Video Finally, Facebook employees discuss the need to design a mobile experience on a touchscreen mobile phone rather than a picture-editing software like Photoshop. Facebook uses quartz composer to design home, and users can have the experience of chat heads on the screen.      Facebook is renowned for its iterative design for quick action, breaking stereotypes (move fast and break things). Through the Facebook iteration in the video, we've deepened our understanding of how home works and how home and other Facebook apps can make new progress.