Overuse of lines, borders and shadows distracts instead of focussing users. Look at Facebook mobile21/9/2012 Yesterday I realized that my news feed on Facebook mobile was taking me a long time to digest. I needed to focus really hard to extract important information like people’s status updates and distinguish them from pages they liked or other activity. I realised that I had seen this issue before at Vodafone Group a few years ago. The Facebook news feed was suffering from something I like to call over-delineation. There are simply too many line dividers, shadow effects and borders on the page. Instead of helping us to divide and separate information, the use of so much delineation simply gives our eyes too much to process and makes it difficult to identify what is of value and what is not. The solution is to trust in the use of space, indentation and text emphasis to do the job.
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Eliza van B
9/10/2012 00:29:49
Looks cleaner alright. Have you seen the terrible 'Pages you might like' feature on Facebook mobile. Three useless stories in the middle of my newsfeed and there's no way to disable it :(
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