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Re:What Working at Facebook Has Taught Me About Design Critique by TheOtherHobbes on Monday January 18, 2016 @06:26AM (#10923765)
Perhaps it would be better to copy the processes of companies/teams notable for outstanding design - or any other process.

I wasn't aware that Facebook was an authority in design.

There's beautiful/functional design all over the web. But my experience of FB is that the UI is somewhere between "Mostly OK, I guess" and "That really doesn't work very well and it's annoying."

If it's taking two hours of review time a week to create that, the process may not be optimal.

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Re:What Working at Facebook Has Taught Me About Design Critique by techdragon on Monday January 18, 2016 @09:13AM (#10924448)
Just remember, Facebook are designing a UI for 1 Billion people. That's going to require a lot more "common understandable simplicity" than most applications.
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Re:What Working at Facebook Has Taught Me About Design Critique by forgottenpass on Monday January 18, 2016 @10:30AM (#10924894)
That's going to require a lot more "common understandable simplicity" than most applications.

Whether or not that is true doesn't matter when facebook is very much not "common understandable simplicity."

Facebook's interface is a bewildering mess to use anything other than their chat or twitter clone.

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