Facebook is a social media web site. Usability questions on the Facebook tag concerns Facebook itself, applications within Facebook and extension of Facebook features.
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Should “Like us on Facebook” be a required field on a form?
I came across a Facebook app/tab for a brand that required that the person Like the brand before being able to submit the form. I'm used to normal "like-gates" in which a splash screen is shown saying ...
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My team has to build an app that requires a Facebook auth to enter a sweepstakes. At what stage should the authorization happen?
Would it be better to require this authorization when the user first lands, or let them play the app first and only prompt them once they try to enter the sweepstakes?
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Managing Facebook comments with unregistered users
I have a website at Flickwit. The website has the option to login by email registration or Facebook Connect. The issue that I have is that if users are already logged into Facebook in a previous ...
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Graph Search changes: why did Facebook do this? [closed]
Recently I noticed a little change in the Graph Search UI. It went from this (plain):
to this (more pronounced search field):
Even though it had the same text "Type to search for people, places ...
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Showing facebook profile picture to show logged in user
Let's say you login on a web shop using a facebook connect button.
Do you think it is good practice for the site to retrieve your profile pic and display it just by your login name?
I wonder if it ...
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showing buttons on hover?
Lately I have noticed that a lot of websites are displaying a delete "X" when you hover over that specific panel. I have been thinking whether or not this was very usable for the user because there is ...
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How many levels does the facebook comments support [migrated]
Trying to build an app to capture and store facebook comments natively. I know that facebook supports nested comments and replies, but Im unable to find information either on facebook or elsewhere on ...
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Best practices for Facebook Website Like vs Page Like
When you have a website http://website.com I feel like there are two choices of how to utilize Facebook's like button:
I can have users like the website itself and then monitor it via the ...
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Does Facebook use their UX for social engineering? [closed]
I've always wondered if Facebook's UX design is based partly on social engineering.
It's very easy to submit a comment that you might later regret. Pressing the enter key immediately posts your ...
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How much would Facebook-only signin limit my user base? [duplicate]
On my website, I currently have a general register and login with a Facebook login as an option. The problem I have noticed is that I have more spammy users creating fake usernames and uploading ...
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Vertical scroll down navigation for Facebook app?
I am designing a web app that must live both on a Facebook app and on a external website.
The website is designed as vertical scroll-down website with 3 sections.
How do I translate this kind of ...
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Character stats page design for Facebook game
I need some expert advice redesigning the layout of my Facebook game. Below is a screenshot of my home page as it stands now. Styling of margins and some font stuff isn't done which is why some things ...
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Is it good to post other links of same topic in Facebook page for a blog or website? [closed]
I have a facebook page for my blog. Now I want to share my bookmarked links in the page apart from blog but related to the same topic. Is it good approach? I saw some facebook pages share other ...
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Should actions that leave your app require confirmation?
Our app has a 'Facebook' button that opens another user's facebook profile.
Based on the assumptions that: most people who network also have higher facebook privacy settings, and also people who use ...
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Is it ok to make non-unlikable like button? [closed]
Is it OK with facebook policies to make a "like" button that will disappear for user when he use it?
If not - is there some other button that can be placed in other site (not on facebook) that will ...
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Facebook user and friends user display patterns for Windows 8 Metro App
I'm developing a win 8 metro app (html) with facebook integration. At windows 8, i cannot use the facebook social plugin to show user informations...
So i need to construct my HTML and css to show ...
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Which way is better to invite your facebook friends via an IOS/Android app?
I am building a social community via an IOS and Android app, both apps are using "Post to friend wall" to invite friends to use with a direct link for the landing page of the app to download it.
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Would adding horizontal scrolling to Facebook profiles be a good idea?
I saw these designs by Fred Nerby. He proposed adding horizontal scrolling to Facebook profiles. Is this good UI?
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What is the best way to show the Facebook “Like” widget?
I am working on an e-commerce aggregator site. I need to place a Facebook like widget. Now, I am not sure what is the best way to get the user to like the Facebook page. What would be the best way to ...
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Social network symbol [closed]
My team and I for the past few months have been developing a social network from scratch. Its been going pretty well and should be finished soon. We doing research on other social networks and saw ...
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Is there a reason to keep a Facebook 'Share' button?
For over a year now, the Like button enables you to add a comment, and it shares the story on Facebook with the thumbnail and all.
Although the share dialog gives more options to the user - they are ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of “minimal” design?
E.g. Google has minimal web design (just a search box). How do you define minimal design? How does this relate to minimalism in general? Is Facebook also minimalism at least from the beginning?
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Sharing Links on Facebook with Multi-Language Site?
We're trying to decide what the best course of action, and have two opposite opinions on this.
We have a multi-language site (currently with English and German only).
When a user shares a link to ...
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Why are most social media web forms on the right hand side of the page now?
I am doing research into social media sites, and one thing I have noticed is that most of the main players in the social media and communication world (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Google) ...
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What's the point in having a different register and log in section
While flowing out some registration / log in steps someone on my team pointed out that we're asking the same information from users in both of those steps - an e-mail address and a password, what's ...
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Is autocorrecting user login information a good idea?
I discovered last night that if you try to log in to facebook with an email address that is similar to one that has already logged on that computer, it will autocorrect your login information and try ...
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Should users be allowed to enter a date outside an age restriction? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should I allow users to select a valid but disqualifying option?
If you have an age restriction to use your web service should the users be able to input birthday ...
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Why don't Facebook and Google+ use face recognition tools for user profile pics?
Is there any reason they're not using a face recognition tools to see if someone has uploaded an avatar or a non-person picture like nature, building,etc? Will this rule limit users or frustrate them? ...
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Signing up for a site with a social network versus a form
I am designing a registration page for our site where we allow people to signup 3 different ways: Facebook, Twitter and also a manual signup form.
We want to drive people to use Facebook and Twitter ...
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What is the UX strategy behind Facebook forcing users to use the timeline?
A few months back facebook took the unusual step of forcing most users to switch to the timeline view of their profile page.
I am interested to work out what the strategy was behind this move. On ...
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Should a site have separate buttons for social media sharing and following?
Following: 'following' a business on Twitter or 'liking' a business on Facebook, or subscribing to their YouTube channel.
Sharing: posting something on their wall/Twitter or their content on your ...
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What is the effect of a site that takes time to close?
Facebook, on my setup (OS X, Chrome) takes about a 1 second to close. I can imagine that there could be some stuff that has to be done, just before you close the browser, and that is taking up ...
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Introducing a Facebook Login
Currently we have a site that uses basic site login using a username and password that is stored on the server. Our client wants to introduce Facebook login alongside the current site login.
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How to create a public UX process?
I want to make an experiment. I have a new project that I don't mind opening to the public.
What I want to try is to use the public (e.g. Facebook) to go through a UX design process - from collecting ...
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What icon can I use to represent Facebook share action for iOS? [closed]
I am now working on the interface for iPad app where one of the most frequently used feature is "Share to Facebook".
I am wondering what would be the best way to represent this action. Most of the ...
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Instant Facebook 'Like' or link to Facebook page
I'm currently working on a youth brand project at work.
We need a Facebook link on the webpage to link to the Facebook page.
I believe that it should be a 'Like' button with a possible counter next ...
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Invite your Facebook friends in web app - Styled like Facebook or native web app style?
I am not sure how to decide (other than testing and doing the work twice), whether users when prompted to invite their Facebook friends, would be more comfortable with 'wall of faces' that is styled ...
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Facebook Like button too intruding? [closed]
Does anybody feel the Facebook Like button is too intruding in ones UI? Like it doesn't fit in, like it's some cheap plastic thing?
Have anybody ever used JS or something to make any alternatives ...
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Is Facebook's Timeline layout usable? [closed]
I feel that the double-column is confusing, and the lack of a exhaustive time-sorted list of my actions somehow frustrating.
I wonder if this is just a reaction to change and a smart idea or just bad ...
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Most Common Screen Size used to play facebook games?
I am developing a facebook game. this game is written in php/Jquery/CSS. Up until recently, facebook games have been display in an iframe that was 720px wide. But recently, they gave the option to ...
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Facebook Page or Group [closed]
Say I was hired by a store to put up Facebook account. Since I do not know who are the people that could be connected to the store, I put up a Facebook profile so I can add friends. This is against ...
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what do users respond best to when providing social bookmarking possibilities
I'm looking for what will get me most social media attention. I have a site that provides insurance information, so it would be used by most people, in the footer I'm going to place some social ...
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Why is everybody using Facebook, is it good marketing or good usability?
Why is everybody using Facebook? Is it good marketing or good usability? If it's usability, what specifically do they offer that is different from others? I was happily doing social networking on ...
