Why the “Like” Button Design of Facebook Took Half a Year
After a year of Facebook’s “like” button updates, the “like” button design of Facebook attracts people’s attention again due to the Ted speech of Margaret Gould Steward. Is it really this difficult to redesign a button as small as the “like” button on Facebook? Yes, Steward says. And according to the news, the leader of the project spent about 280 hours on coming up with a feasible solution. Now that 280 hours are not squandered, I find it more interesting to look inside. It is certain that the 280 hours was not wasted and spent on more than just replacing the thumb icon on a light-blue round corner square and the standard font “like” with the “f” icon and the bold-font “like” on a deep-blue round corner square. First things first, Facebook need the guts to give up the “thumb” icon, though it is so prevailing that it has already become a part of our lives. Actually, the “thumb” icon is also brought to us by Facebook, in other words, the “thumb” represents the Facebook brand ...