Back when it was just a scrappy little start-up instead of a social networking juggernaut, Facebook's motto used to be "move fast and break things." Of course, when you serve 1.2 billion people across the planet--many of whom are prone to totally flipping their wigs at any little design change--breaking things by moving fast isn't quite as appealing. The new motto seems to be "move slow, and don't mess anything up."
"What has changed is mostly a matter of refinement. "
This would go a long way to explain why Facebook took just one day short of a full calendar year to unveil a news feed redesign that is, in effect, pretty subtle. It's cleaner, the images are bigger, and Facebook has replaced the default fonts with Helvetica and Arial. *
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