18 Cool Concept Designs (Facelift) of Notable Websites. If content is king, design should be the queen.
It’s a deadly crucial element to a website’s success, as it decides how content is to be structured and displayed, and bad design simply ruins the user experience, thus dooming the site traffic. (Image Source: FloxDesign) Often we web designer has to play trading game while we’re designing a website. We either trade beauty for functionality, or functionality for readability, as it’s impossible to produce a design that pleases everyone in every aspect. So which design is better then? Facebook According to its official statistic, Facebook has served more than 500 million active users, with 700 billion minutes spent on it. Concept design By: Barton Smith “The Facebook Facelift is a self initiated project to challenge the form and functionality of Facebook. Main Page. Photos Page. Events Page. Contacts Page. Notifications Page. Concept design By: Information Architects Main Page.
Concept design By: Justin Dauer. Why the Facebook, Amazon integration is bigger than you think. Facebook and Amazon.com partnered Tuesday in what could be one of the social network’s most important integrations yet.
Amazon.com now offers a personalized page, where consumers can see product recommendations influenced by friends and their own tastes. They get notifications on when friend’s birthdays are coming up and suggestions on what to buy for them. It’s a big deal for a number of reasons. A deep Amazon.com-Facebook partnership could help corner Google in the e-commerce market. One of Google’s most lucrative use cases is when consumers search to decide which products to buy. Such a partnership could also lay the groundwork for Facebook to get key pieces of data, so it can start to quantitatively value how social recommendations translate into sales. The longstanding problem with brand advertising is that it is notoriously hard to measure effectiveness.
Amazon Now Taps Into Facebook For Social Product Recommendations. It appears that Amazon has rolled out a new social feature integrating Facebook into your recommendations. If you go your recommendations, Using Facebook Connect, Amazon will now serve you social recommendations based on information in your Facebook profile. Facebook’s Platform account was just updated with a message that seems to confirm the rollout of this new feature. So when you activate the feature, you’ll see a dedicated Amazon Facebook page within the recommendations section of your account.
For example, you’ll see the most popular books, DVDs, and more that are listed in your Friend’s Facebook profile. So if you like Radiohead, you can see which one of your friends also likes the band. Amazon explicitly says that it will not share your Amazon account history with Facebook nor will it share your purchase history with Facebook.
Amazon friends Facebook to offer gift ideas. Looking for the right gift for your favorite Facebook friend?
A new service from the team of Amazon and Facebook can recommend the right products for shoppers by peeking at their Facebook profiles. Launched as a beta on Monday, the new opt-in service will suggest gifts for your friends by checking out their favorite movies, music, books, and other items derived from their Facebook accounts. And if you're in the mood to buy something for yourself, Amazon also looks at your own Facebook profile to suggest products that might interest you.
You can try out the service by browsing to Amazon's recommendations page where you'll see the "Tap into Your Facebook Network" pane on the right. Click on the Sign in and Connect button. A Facebook page warns you what content you'll be sharing with Amazon, including your basic profile information, your friends' lists, and your friends' profile information. You can also view that person's Amazon Wish List if one exists.