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Re:Information Architect's 2006 Facebook redesigns by donohoe on Monday March 08, 2010 @03:34PM (#1176344)
Its not for everyone, but bearing in mind this was created in 2006 it shows a very progressive thought - especially when you think on how Facebook looked back then.

I disagree that "move(ing) your eyes left to right to read this is a readability issue"... well, the basic action of reading (for most languages such as English) is to do exactly that.

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Re:Information Architect's 2006 Facebook redesigns by jfornear on Monday March 08, 2010 @04:32PM (#1176518)
It's the horizontal distance that is the problem. This redesign takes the information from the Newsfeed and spreads it across the entire page. If you want to read comments you have to travel horizontally and then go back to read the next item in the feed. That is a pretty big readability nuisance.

But yeah, this is from 2006. I like the branding on the left sidebar. I just happen to not be a fan of the layout mostly.

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Re:Information Architect's 2006 Facebook redesigns by donohoe on Monday March 08, 2010 @09:25PM (#1177292)
Ah, yes - now that you've clarified it, that makes more sense
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