[IxDA Discuss] Changes to Facebook (Perceived Privacy)

[Georgia Bullen]

Another interesting note... When Facebook, Inc was recruiting on my college
campus last year, they only wanted engineers and claimed to not have a
usability department, therefore not knowing what to do with people who had
studied "HCI" and not accepting applications/resumes from usability
backgrounds.


On 9/8/06 3:58 PM, "Rebekah Sedaca" <rsedaca at capstrat.com> wrote:

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> The face book response is an interesting one, and I too have asked
> myself "did they do any user testing"? Just because something can be
> done doesn't mean it should be! This should go along way in helping
> those of us usability and UXD professionals in making our case for the
> values of our work in the design process. A real-life mainstream news
> worthy example is just what we needed!
> 
> Unfortunately, I am not of the "face book" generation (the tool didn't
> exist when I was in college just 6 years ago). However, on Tuesday I
> viewed the site's enhancement with a web producer on our team who used
> the site often and was raving (and ranting) about its new stalking
> feature. She's posted an article online "How Facebook Lost face" which
> explains the history of the site and what has happened over the last few
> days. Check it out!
> http://www.capstrat.com/cs/insight/articles/how-facebook-lost-face.cfm
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> - Rebekah Sedaca, UXD