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They're leveraging Sunk Costs, a powerful psychological effect. Since you've filled out the standard parts of the form you're more inclined to click the Like button; bailing out late means abandoning all the work you've done. Even if the "cost" was something rather minor like this, you're likely to see less of a bounce rate than you would with a form that ...
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1. Engagement particularly with richer content.
The evidence concerning the change in engagement is mixed.
Evidence of increased engagement
This study suggests some positive impact for marketers - Simplymeasured.com
14% Increase in Fan Engagement
46% Increase in Content Engagement
65% Increase in Interactive Content Engagement (Video and Photo)
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No you shouldn't. The only right answer is to provide the best user experience possible. Un-needed extra steps, no matter how small, are unacceptable. Extra un-needed steps that feel, and ARE evil to any degree are further unacceptable.
Is it a good idea from a business perspective? Doesn't matter, bad UX is bad UX. Period.
There are further deeper ...
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Facebook timeline is not a design change but a concept change. From being just a social networking site, with the introduction of Timeline they want it to be integral part of a person's life.
It makes the user feel more connected as now it shows the complete life span of the individual from Birth day to college to employment to every single moment in life. ...
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Though I cant speak from any existing research which FB or Google plus must have done with the logic of not enforcing that users have to upload facial pictures, I believe there are three primary reasons :
Users might not be comfortable with posting their picture for personal or privacy concerns and would prefer to use a neutral picture such as a ...
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Adding horizontal scrolling to FB is probably not the best idea. But, like most things design, it depends.
In general, horizontal scrolling is:
Bad for Mouse Users
For mouse users, horizontal scrolling can be a jarring & frustrating UX. While nearly all mice have scroll wheels, many don't "lean" left/right, & for the ones that do, being precise ...
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Just because I submit to some newsletter or support forum or whatever does not mean I actually like that company. Someone is going to be added to my adblock list in this case, even if that renders something else less usable. It's like having to hug a salesperson when all you really wanted was a car or your groceries. And if it is inevitable the reaction may ...
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When the user comes to the Home page, the user does not expect to see the form top left because it's not the most important thing on the website, from the users perspective. uxmovement has a good article about this.
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You might consider the security aspect of a login form. Let’s say a user is trying to login to the system – but enters the wrong password. What should you do then? Register a new user? Probably not. Would you tell the user that the password is wrong and implying that the username is valid? That’s not a good idea either because it opens up for possible ...
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As a style, people often describe very thin lines and neutral shades of color as minimal. If you emphasize everything, nothing gets emphasized. Minimalist art is about emphasis. I suppose you could relate this to web design by saying minimalist design emphasizes content (text, video, sound).
Minimalism in design sprung from WW2. There was a new emphasis on ...
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The technology is there.
I wouldn't be surprised if it continues to evolve in some way. They certainly recgnise the presence of a face and have been able to suggest an identity with some accuracy - providing you can see enough of the face. The technology is impressive in its ability though. Both companies have acquired facial recognition companies in the ...
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We had a similar design challenge at my company. Ideally we wanted people to sign up with FaceBook or Twitter, but they also had the option to create an account specifically with us. (This is a website for an online school with a free learning platform). Here is what we ended up with.
I understand you would not like to show the form inline with the ...
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They are worth avoiding because:
They are completely unusable on a touch device. So if someone were to use the app / site on a tablet, they would have no way of knowing that they existed at all. Given the growth in touch devices, I would argue that this alone is a good enough reason not to use any hover effects.
They have poor affordance. Unless you ...
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I found this in a blog note. No idea if its any trustful though:
Graph Search A/B Testing
Facebook is doing some A/B testing on their Graph Search.
They are testing their Original layout, vs 2 new layouts (A & B).
A few weeks from now, we should be able to see the declared winner (if
any).
Apparently Facebook is testing your ...
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I doubt whether there is a primary UX stategy behind the forced timeline. I think the main (what else for a huge company like Facebook) focus is generating more content for their data-mining. Which is their main business after all. As a user you will be more likely to fill in special dates (ie. graduation, old photos, past events) and thus fill in the gaps ...
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If you are only going to show it to them, then it is fine to show it. If someone has signed up with a facebook account, they would have already agreed to allow you to see their profile pic.
If you are going to make it publicly viewable, then it is not okay to do it unless you get explicit permission from them first. You could by default not show it and ...
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As web applications are more and more packed with information, the need to hide controls have emerged. The option would be to have even longer web pages, showing a lot of redundant controls for every post as in "unfollow post, unfollow updates from user X, unlike page, still like page but don't show updates, and on and on and on.
This has made designers ...
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Of course limiting users would frustrate them - just a quick glance at facebook or google plus will tell you that many users prefer non-portrait photos as their profile photos.
You haven't listed any reasons as to why you would implement a feature like this. It's probably best to start by defining the benefits of imposing this restriction in order to see ...
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First Question: Google keeps their design minimalist because they want search to be easy and "fun".
Second Question: A minimalist design shows data in the most efficient way as possible. Example: Google shows there search box in the middle, different google services on the top, and keeps your account information on the right hand side. Easy to use for the ...
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Minimalism as a design preference (as opposed to an artistic/aesthetic preference) comes from this thought process:
You want a user to perform a specific task (perform a search, provide an email address, sign up for your service, etc.)
Statistically speaking, you're only going to get them to do ONE task, even if you offer them lots of tasks that they can ...
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When thinking about Remote Controls (RC) and UIs of the kind...
Maximalist RCs had a lot of functionality, flexibility and versatility available, as compared to its minimalist counterpart with a really small subset of that functionality.
However most of the time those maximalist UIs wouldn't be touched by the target audience, they wouldn't learn how to use ...
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In general: I see horizontal scrolling as the equivalent to flipping through pages in a book.
It's more convenient, IMO, to scroll vertically as this resemble more with reading the page instead of flipping it every time one need to get to some information.
Users of iPad and similar devices might disagree with my opinion, but mind you only a small ...
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If you have to use Facebook for communication, I think the best way would be to use private messages, which has a supported API since last year (2012). For reference, look at the answer to the question Send private messages to friends.
But using Facebook as invitation channel for other apps is maybe not the best approach, since there are a lot of Facebook ...
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Focusing of what you have in your screenshot I've made a few changes:
I moved the subtitle Great Wyrm to be placed next to The Tesserex title
I've drawn lines below headers and sub headers to group things together
The info is shortened, with the option to show all the text using the more-button
The labels (Gander, Age,...) have been right-aligned to ...
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I'm not sure I understand your question, but this seems slightly similar to the $300 Million Dollar Button issue to me:
The designers fixed the problem simply. They took away the Register
button. In its place, they put a Continue button with a simple
message: "You do not need to create an account to make purchases on
our site. Simply click Continue ...
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It's easy to imagine that users who operate this UI with a mouse will find it hard to easily understand the idea of horizontal scrolling, without proper design guides to help them.
So look at your target audience. If you can deduct that most of them (or a significant amount, anyway) use Windows or Linux based computers, you can assume safely that most of ...
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This is really a marketing and design issue, but first I'd try to make an exhaustive list of current social symbols, present them to an experienced icon/symbol designer and say "make us something different from all these". You'd probably want a lawyer involved to avoid trademark infringement and establish the symbol you decide upon as your trademark.
In ...
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There are quite a few questions here.
The best way to get user to like your page would be via the standard like button. Directing them from your website to the facebook page and counting on them to like the facebook page there is a longer flow of action than the user just clicking the like button on your webpage.
While many people like to place facebook ...
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Unless you have a particular reason for really wanting the visitors to visit the facebook page (such as trying to market your site through facebook), it's much more user-friendly just to let them link it on the site without redirecting to facebook.
If the main point of the page is to get the user to click the "like" button, the lower-right corner of the ...
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