Questions tagged [facebook]
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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Why do profile pictures overlap banner images in most websites?
Why is it that every social application has the user's avatar fully or partially overlapping the user's banner/cover image? The same thing happens with pages also.
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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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Why is everybody using Facebook, is it good marketing or good usability? [closed]
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 ...
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Why doesn't Facebook allow users to change its theme? [closed]
Unlike Orkut, why doesn't Facebook allow users to change their homepage theme color, style, etc.?
Do they want people to use their UX or colour strategies?
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Purposefully obscure user interface design to encourage behaviours
Installing Windows 8 makes it seem that it is mandatory to create a Microsoft account, however the option to install without one is there, albeit wilfully buried.
Logging out of the Windows Phone ...
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How to use "Greeked Text" —or fake content— to reduce anxiety in cases of long loading times
In cases where loading times are too long (more than a minute) does showing fake content or content placeholders while the application is loading data help reduce anxiety?
I've only seen this in ...
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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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Best practices for Facebook Website Like vs Page Like
When you have a website, 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 administration dashboard that ...
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How to handle a UX issue that cannot currently be fixed (deleting Facebook posts on a 3rd party site)?
I'm building a small app that scans social media for posts that meet a certain criterion and helps the user delete those posts.
Sadly, Facebook does not allow us to directly delete posts using the ...
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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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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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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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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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With infinite scrolling/pagination, how should I handle the user loading page 2, but there being new content on page 1?
Say we're looking at a website like Reddit or Facebook where there's infinite scrolling involved, and things aren't necessarily sorted by time, but are sorted by some relevance factor that decides the ...
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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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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 is the significance of the "Sign Up" button on Facebook's new login page?
So Facebook updated their login page. I couldn't help but wonder the reason behind having a Sign Up button in the header when there already is a Sign Up form in the body section.
What aspect of UX ...
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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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Why my chats are shown in right side? [duplicate]
Here you can see my today chat history:
Yeah, the blue colored are mine.
Why these are right aligned?
Is it because of most people are right handed or earlier chat app implemented this way?
I'm ...
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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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What is the reason for having more than one login link for Facebook?
If you do a Google search for facebook you'll see something that I think is rather curious, basically there are two different links, one to log into your account and the other to login to your account....
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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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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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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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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 do users expect when showing list of friends who use the app vs friends that don't?
I have made a philosophy/ethics question multiplayer game for a obligatory norwegian course on all universities. App is loaded with questions you can answer alone, or against an opponent. To battle ...
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Facebook/Twitter login only vs. Facebook/Twitter signup and login separately
I have searched for this topic here, but haven't found solid answers for the problem.
So the situation is this: we are creating the authentication screens for a mobile app and we are not sure which ...
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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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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 vs SHARE button
This is maybe a question that has been asked a lot of times, but after searching I can't find the answer I'm looking for so I thought I'd ask :)
I am setting up an eCommerce shop with different ...
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App - Should a user be able to edit the text of a tweet or facebook post?
I am building an android app, and i have implemented what i believe to be a very good user interface/flow.
To upload a photo to our website there are 3 steps.
You select the photo.
You enter a ...
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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 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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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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Vertical scroll down navigation for Facebook app?
I am designing a web app that must live both as 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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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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When logging out of a website that authenticates with Facebook, should the user be logged out of Facebook as well?
I'm working on a website that integrates the Facebook login API. When a user clicks the logout button for the website, I log them out of the website's session. The question is if I should be calling ...
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Facebook reactions as a metric for user engagement
Previously when facebook only had a 'like' button and comments for people to respond to a post, user engagement can be evaluated in terms of the number of likes as well as the number of comments. ...
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Profile image authority? (Facebook, LinkedIn or Gravatar)
There are various profile images available from APIs (such as Facebook, Gravatar, LinkedIn, etc). In some cases (many CRM systems for example), you can pull all of these images into your site via APIs....
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Native users sharing/posting on third party sites workflow
Initially my application had just the native log in form, but I recently added a Facebook log-in as well as sharing/invitation ability for those authenticated via Facebook. I would like to add other ...
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How should I allow Facebook-linked accounts to post anonymously? [closed]
I'm building a WordPress-based website where users will create an account from their Facebook account.
Users will be able to post and comment but I'd like to offer the option for anonymous ...
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What is the difference between Facebook's Share dialog and Feed dialog? [closed]
I am trying to figure out which method is better to implement Facebook sharing, but there are surprisingly few resources comparing these two methods directly.
On the Facebook developers' website, ...
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Why does facebook like button have the text "Like"?
I am wondering what is the need for Facebook for showing the text "Like" when they most popular hand symbol to show the like button.
My main concern is that we have a platform for note book sharing ...
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Limiting registration to be only by Facebook, is it a good idea?
I'm building a web application which is available as a stand-alone website as well as a Facebook App, the target audience are mostly Facebook users.
However, I'm confused about the registration ...
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How to tell Facebook users don't be afraid to sign in?
I'm working on a website that only accepts Facebook on their sign. I want to tell my users that we won't post anything on their name or like something that they don't, it's just the sign in proccess.
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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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What do you call a web layout style where a single scrollbar moves all content until each one hits bottom?
This style is being used more and more, but cannot figure out a proper term to call it.
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Universal scrollbar, user can scroll from any mouse location in the viewport with the same effect.
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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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use facebook login feature or not
I intend implementing facebook login to my web app-and also the traditional registration form.
There are some questions that arise though and are not general but specific to the nature of the app.Let ...
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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 and ...
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