Monday, July 14, 2008

New and Improved Interfaces? Don't bother!

O L D FACEBOOK






New and Improved?

Why is it that in an effort to be ‘fresh’ and ‘new’, companies always take the user interface that we’ve grown accustomed to, and flip it around?




Notice how Facebook cleverly moved my head shot from the left to the right? And my friends list from the – you guessed it—left to the right? And my network and vital stats from the – getting old yet? -- left to the right?


N E W FACEBOOK

Do people get paid to make these changes? Wouldn’t a dime store mirror serve the same design purpose? I write this today, the 14th of July, because My.Yahoo home page has been warning me that today is the last day they will support their ‘old’ interface, but tomorrow they will be moving me onto the new version.


Maybe I should just get out a mirror and take a look!

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