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Why do profile pictures overlap banner images in most websites?
It's intentional, grid-breaking design
Grid-breaking is a common design technique used to draw attention to important objects on a page. By intentionally misaligning visual content to the page's ...
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Why doesn't Facebook allow users to change its theme?
There are far more important things when it comes to UX for Facebook
A site with 2.5 billion active users needs to constantly rethink things, test them, make them better, add new functions etc. the ...
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Why do profile pictures overlap banner images in most websites?
The overlapping is there to show the hierarchy between the two photos.
The profile image is the more important one and the cover is an additional info that you can show to the user.
Think of an ...
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How to handle a UX issue that cannot currently be fixed (deleting Facebook posts on a 3rd party site)?
Be transparent with your users.
I would include a message that communicates two things:
The application did its job successfully
Facebook imposes this "inconvenient" requirement
Perhaps ...
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Why doesn't Facebook allow users to change its theme?
I'll point to Reddit as an example of why not to allow users to redesign their pages: it becomes a fragmentation issue. If you allow users to control the look and feel of the software, then you lose ...
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How to use "Greeked Text" —or fake content— to reduce anxiety in cases of long loading times
This link/information should help you: Facebook content placeholder deconstruction - http://cloudcannon.com/deconstructions/2014/11/15/facebook-content-placeholder-deconstruction.html
To summarize ...
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Why doesn't Facebook allow users to change its theme?
The theme and colours are part of Facebook's brand. It keeps everything consistent, and stops people from creating "ugly" pages.
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Why does facebook like button have the text "Like"?
It's much more usable to have text accompanying icons.
The paradox of icons is they have to be universally recognizable enough that they could appear without text, but they never should appear ...
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Why does facebook like button have the text "Like"?
I think this is too early to abandon description from this particular action. The icon itself still can mean 'Thumbs up' or 'Okay'. Facebook users are not only techy young people, who understand what '...
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What could be better message to any user in facebook?
I wish I'd just comment on that.
Anyway, the message should be like this:
"You must be at least 13 years old to have a Facebook account"
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How to handle sign in with e-mail after Facebook sign up
Treat a transition from federated login to mail and password the way you would treat a self-service password reset. Send a message to the address with a one-time link to create a password. Then when ...
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What is the reason for having more than one login link for Facebook?
One hit is for the American version of the log in page (www.facebook.com), the other is for the UK version of the log in page (en-gb.facebook.com). Possibly these are the only two English versions ...
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Comment vs Reply in a social feed
There is no "ideal phrase" for "it".
They are both different terms that mean different things.
Comment
a note explaining, illustrating, or criticizing the meaning of a
writing ...
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Why doesn't Facebook allow users to change its theme?
why doesn't Facebook allow users to change their homepage theme color, style, etc.?
Another reason they don't do that is - When users share their problems to FB help centre, their screenshots should ...
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Why my chats are shown in right side?
The main focal point of the chat UI is incoming message and most of the users are used to read from letf to right. That's why incoming message position is at left side and our chat is at right side.
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How to use "Greeked Text" —or fake content— to reduce anxiety in cases of long loading times
We usually use a div. Make certain that the text is not confused with real text - but at the same time don't use lorem ipsum. (That will annoy or confuse your visitors.)
Try something along the line ...
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use facebook login feature or not
Put a Facebook login. I always use FB logins whenever I can. It's so convenient. I don't want 9 different logins and have to remember which email and password I used. One login for everything will ...
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If your app requires an email address to register, but you also allow registration via FB, what if FB doesn't return an email?
I would simply ask the users. Once you discover that their email address is missing, show a message like this upon their login:
Please, complete your profile information by providing your email ...
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User signs up using their Facebook account logs and then logs in with their (same email) Google account. Now what?
I think the best solution would be that every account is associated to the email. Once they log in with one social then it's linked.
So let's say I have google and facebook, I connect google and then ...
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How did the facebook marketplace team come up with the “hide from friends” option
Features like these are often based on qualitative feedback generated from observed behavior.
Let's use the Facebook Marketplace example. Facebook has analytics and probably uses some kind of session ...
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Facebook reactions as a metric for user engagement
Excellent question ! Apparently a study by globalwebindex shows that after the launch of reactions, the number of users who interact or react with a post has increased after Facebook introducted ...
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Chatbot response on wrong user input
Don't pretend this isn't a bot answering. You need the user's answer to deliver the service. You need to give an answer that doesn't make them feel stupid. You can make it humorous: "Hey, I'm only a ...
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Why my chats are shown in right side?
The below opinions could primarily apply true to right handed people
The primary goal in any chat/conversational interface (digital or even art) is to differentiate between the two parties. ...
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What is the reason for having more than one login link for Facebook?
I would wager that this is non-intentional. My largest indicator that it is non-intentional is the descriptions are the exact same, and if there was meant to be a difference in the two, the ...
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Facebook widget or just a link out to facebook?
There is no denying that Facebook works best in its own environment (not truncated as a widget). FB has invested billions of dollars to optimize the use of their website. Then why offer widgets?
I ...
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Why FB direct message and camera button has different location between ios and android?
Nobody can really tell unless they're working for Facebook specifically on that team, but for me, it looks like a classic case of “it depends in which A/B testing bucket you've landed” unless it's ...
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If your app requires an email address to register, but you also allow registration via FB, what if FB doesn't return an email?
Can you not check on the fly when they are registering?
When people are registering using fb, your db gets all the fields name, email id etc. Put a logic if DB is not getting email id, show rest of ...
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SSO Login, can we remove the Facebook color in the button?
These companies each have their own guidelines for how you are legally allowed to use their trademarks.
Facebook's developer guidelines instruct the developer to refer to the "f" logo brand ...
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Why my chats are shown in right side?
I need to check if there is any research done on this, but in my opinion, it could be based on the way we read English - Left to Right.
In a conversation my chats are my own thoughts and I may not ...
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What could be better message to any user in facebook?
Oh, it seems you are too little to join us...
You should be at least 13 years old to join Facebook.
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