Comments on: Facebook Privacy Settings Redesign on Fortune.com

By: inspireUX

inspireUX — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:49:32 +0000

Great stuff, Whitney! I thought it was a really interesting exercise to go through. I think the range of all of our solutions was wonderful. I wrote about my solutions in more detail here:

Part 1: http://www.inspireux.com/2010/05/24/exercise-us...

Part 2: http://www.inspireux.com/2010/05/25/exercise-ux...

By: WildWildEast

WildWildEast — Sun, 30 May 2010 17:39:29 +0000

Thanks. Great thinking. I'm working on a similar issue for a Korean company now and this helps bunches!

By: Tom Voirol

Tom Voirol — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:07:05 +0000

I find it a bit puzzling that your redesign is right at the bottom of the vote with 10%. The others might be attractive to facebook geeks who like to fiddle with complex controls. They certainly “look more designed”, but for your average Facebook user, nothing beats the immediacy of choosing who gets to see an element right next to that element itself.

I had a bit of a think about this over time. I always felt a preview (“this is what non-friend would see of your profile page”) was missing to see the impact of your privacy settings, but to make the settings in the first place your solution strikes me as the most intuitive.