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Facebook Application Developers Ponder Design Changes

By Adam DuVander July 14, 2008 Categories: Platforms & APIs

Facebook
A new design for Facebook profile pages will go live this week. The biggest change moves from a single, long page to a tabbed interface. For Application developers, it means a lot of changes to how their services will be viewed. You can explore the changes on Facebook’s testing server.

There are now several ways to get your application on a user’s profile page, including new narrow boxes. Apps already installed have been moved to the boxes tab. Users can still add your application to their main profile page (in the wall tab, which includes the user’s mini-feed), but must deliberately click the Add to Profile button.

One positive change, at least for the user experience, is that adding an application no longer interrupts flow. When an action requires that the user add an app, a box is overlayed above the current content.

New add application overlay

Inside Facebook has a good overview of all the changes.

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