Facebook's new design for the news feed will be an old design. That's right, the old news feed is returning back to the way we loved it.
The company had talks about remodeling the news feed for a year now, but instead they backtracked and delayed it.
"You may recall that last year we experimented with a complete redesign of News Feed for desktop and mobile. People who tested it told us that they liked the bigger photos and images, but found it more difficult to navigate Facebook overall. The updated design has the best of both worlds: it keeps the layout and navigation people liked, but offers bigger images and photos, as well as a new font. The current design on mobile remains the same," read an official blog post by Facebook.
It is true that many were not content with the enormous ad sizes and odd newspaper styled layout, and it seemed as though the redesign was made to help Facebook not the users. Many felt that the timeline design was highly "obnoxious".
"Our goal was to retain the parts that users really liked about the redesign such as the modernized look and feel and consistency with mobile stories, and remove the parts that people found disruptive, such as changing the navigation," a Facebook spokesperson told CIO.com.
With this new design, you get bigger photos and the old news feed we all once loved. It's the best of both worlds. There is also a new font you will notice but you may not care, as Facebook's backtrack is more important because of the nostalgic experience it brings.
"We ran multiple tests to understand which parts of the current feed and the redesign people liked and did not like and created a best of version that we're rolling out to everyone," the spokesperson adds.
