Facebook Gives News Feed a New Look on Mobile

Facebook released changes to comments, navigation and more

Facebook released a series of changes to News Feed, with the goal of making the feed “more readable, conversational, and easier to navigate.”

As part of this update, post replies and comments are now placed in rounded message bubbles, giving comments and threads an appearance similar to conversations in Facebook Messenger.

In addition, story titles on posts (such as “Chris’ post”) have been removed, eliminating empty space from the top of the screen. Users can also now swipe out of a post to return to the News Feed view.

In a Facebook Design blog post, Facebook product designer manager, Shali Nguyen, and design director of Facebook News Feed, Ryan Freitas, commented on the navigation changes:

The team opted for consistent back affordances across all the immersive views in addition to reducing the redundancy between our navigation bar and the title of the story. We

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