Facebook - The Deck Ad (Summer 2011)
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If you're looking at our html, this is a good thing.
You should reach out to our design team recruiter directly.
Drop a line to Greg Hoy at: Greg Hoy <greghoy@fb.com>
now each time you click the facebook logo, the next background image will load
edit: in related news, it looks like Chrome won't let you paste javascript links into your URL bar. you may need to manually type the 'javascript:' part at the beginning.
Interesting. I just did that in Firefox 5 and the following message popped up:
"javascript: and data: URIs typed or pasted in the address bar are disabled to prevent social engineering attacks.
Developers can enable them for testing purposes by toggling the "noscript.allowURLBarJS" preference."
I guess that is a new FF5 feature.
EDIT: Oh. That's NoScript, not Firefox. Will read more carefully next time.
"Move fast and break stuff" - they're actually proud of that shit?
I heard that line before but I didn't realize they had made it their mantra. I wonder if they realize how it rings to all the third party developers who are fighting a daily struggle against the notoriously fickle Facebook APIs.
Well, that explains a lot. Every time I attempt to accomplish something on Facebook, one of two things happens: (1) the interface has changed in some way or (2) the feature is broken. Just last week, every "Load More" link was broken in Google Chrome (but worked in Firefox). The week before, I wasn't able to upload photos repeatedly failed, but the iPhoto integration worked fine.
Agile development is great, but Facebook is a mature product: I wish they would keep the breaking to internal test builds.
The spirit of that slogan is more like "Move fast and don't be afraid to disrupt established patterns". The intention is to give employees licence to think out of the box and try out lots of new ideas, without being bogged down by what has gone before. Everyone I've talked to (I personally don't have a lot of experience at jobs outside of Facebook and academia) agrees that Facebook offers you unparalleled freedom to go forth and have impact, unencumbered by red tape and naysayers.
That's not to defend API breakages or incomplete documentation and the pain it causes developers -- I'm not directly involved, but I know that we're definitely trying to get that turned around and fix some of the issues with Facebook Platform.
From my experience with their platform, they are really proud of it. The full slogan is "Move fast, break things, oh shit it broke, fix it, start breaking again". Is there a therapist for websites?
The text is illegible against a good number of the background images they've chosen (at least on a mobile browser). That doesn't seem like a good advert for a design team, or am I missing the point?
I could read the text fine. It seems like they even set it up so that the text turns black or white based on the lightness or darkness of the current background.
I'm curious, what browser/OS are you using? Your screenshots look different from my view of the site, specifically, the text is either displaced or enlarged in your screenshots, making it look weird.
I am such a facebook noob. When I think of facebook design, all that comes to mind is walls of light blue text on white and pages and functionality that I find difficult to navigate.
What am I missing?
(I did that reloading background image thing back in 99 if I recall, but you don't find my valuation at 20 gazillion dollars. :( )
Good question. I'm not sure what the recent momentum is about, but I remember two widely-linked stories about "hipsters" and "hipsterdom" back in 2007 and 2008:
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 87.3 ms ] threadNot sure, but I saw some pics of some devs who built a loft in the facebook office and thought this picture might have been the loft.
Checked the source and found this, haha:
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been doing some very excellent design work for fb over the past few years.
http://www.designforfun.com/display.php?id=108&e=1
Wow, this Analog Research Lab is really incredible, I'm going to post this as well.
edit: in related news, it looks like Chrome won't let you paste javascript links into your URL bar. you may need to manually type the 'javascript:' part at the beginning.
"javascript: and data: URIs typed or pasted in the address bar are disabled to prevent social engineering attacks. Developers can enable them for testing purposes by toggling the "noscript.allowURLBarJS" preference."
I guess that is a new FF5 feature.
EDIT: Oh. That's NoScript, not Firefox. Will read more carefully next time.
I heard that line before but I didn't realize they had made it their mantra. I wonder if they realize how it rings to all the third party developers who are fighting a daily struggle against the notoriously fickle Facebook APIs.
Agile development is great, but Facebook is a mature product: I wish they would keep the breaking to internal test builds.
That's not to defend API breakages or incomplete documentation and the pain it causes developers -- I'm not directly involved, but I know that we're definitely trying to get that turned around and fix some of the issues with Facebook Platform.
Otherwise I'd say that's a minor fail by the designer of that page.
What am I missing?
(I did that reloading background image thing back in 99 if I recall, but you don't find my valuation at 20 gazillion dollars. :( )
http://newyork.timeout.com/things-to-do/this-week-in-new-yor...
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html
It's interesting to note that "hipster" really started ramping up after "emo" had started sliding downward:
http://trends.google.com/trends?q=emo%2C+hipster&ctab=0&...
I compare the two because they are both subcultural labels that have become terms of abuse in fairly recent years.