Facebook has announced the redesigned News Feed few hours back, the news feed brings lot of improvements with bigger is better mantra. The new design is inspired from the Facebook mobile apps, it is an attempt from Facebook to unify the Facebook experience across devices like PCs, tablets and smartphones. The news feed is a best personalized newspaper for Facebook users according to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Today we’re announcing a new version of Facebook designed to reduce clutter and focus more on stories from the people you care about. You see all the stories you saw in your News Feed before, but with a fresh new look. We’ve completely rebuilt each story to be much more vibrant and colorful and highlight the content that your friends are sharing. Photos, news articles, maps and events all look brighter and more beautiful.
The new design is aimed at reducing clutter in the news feed and enabling users to focus on stories and photos and other content. The new design brings several new feeds apart from the existing news feed to explore, these include:
All Friends – a feed that shows you everything your friends are sharing
Photos – a feed with nothing but photos from your friends and the Pages you like
Music – a feed with posts about the music you listen to
Following – a feed with the latest news from the Pages you like and the people you follow.
You can always switch between these feeds using a switcher at the top of the page. The content you see on your news fee will also look vibrant with bigger photos. Now the news stories will carry a bigger photos (552 pixels wide) and bolder headlines. Uploaded videos will take up full width now.
Shared content will include context about the people and pages who shared it, you will see people thumbnails along with the story and clicking on them will reveal what they said about the story while sharing.
Other updates from friends like new connections will also get prominent place along with the cover photo of the page or friend. So make sure you cover page stands out because it will now be visible to a larger audience.
Another important aspect of this new design of news feed is that Facebook experience will be same across devices, the left prominent menu is available everywhere, similarly you can always jump to the top of the feed if you find new stories coming in.
The redesigned news feed is not live yet for all Facebook users, Facebook is testing with a limited number of users at the moment. If you are excited about the new design you can add yourself to the waiting list here. The design updates will be rolled out to iPhone and iPad apps in the coming weeks according to Facebook and to Android thereafter.
