Facebook News Feed undergoes a redesign to improve readability and navigation

Facebook is rolling out a fairly significant redesign, giving the News Feed a cleaner look, and borrowing ideas from Twitter. The social network says that the changes improve readability and navigation, and they affect various areas. The redesign is far from insignificant, but perhaps the most instantly noticeable changes are the dropping of blue accents, and the switch to Twitter-style round images. There are, however, more changes to explore. For the mobile app, there's more borrowing from Twitter. The buttons used to switch between News Feeds, Friend Requests, Market Place and so on, are now cleaner, wireframe icons. In a… [Continue Reading]