Facebook made changes and not sure you realize – TN.com.ar

It seems that Mark Zuckerberg is passionate about the changes. Last week we told you that Facebook had slightly changed its official logo. But now there was new visual changes on the icon to add friends.

The change of the logo of Facebook was conducted by the designer Caitlin Winner, shared her story on how he managed to change the design as a gesture of gender equality.

The designer said in a post on Medium to bother when realized that the icon of women was always behind which represents man . “Furthermore the icon of man was symmetrical, but the woman did not,” said Winner. Therefore, Winner began designing new icons where the shoulders of women were symmetrical . After correcting this, I would also introduce new hairstyles, taking the court ‘Darth Vader helmet’ style.

Finally, Winner reached a final model, where Man and woman can appear ahead regardless. Watch the before and after

However, the changes will gradually seeing in user profiles We are some examples:..

In the IOS app

Facebook for desktop

The Android app

About inclusive strategies of the social network Winner He recalled that his colleague Julyanne Liang had already modified the notification icon, represented by a globe, so that instead of always showing the Americas, will adapt to the world in which each user lives.

In addition, during 2014, Facebook added 54 gender identities as options in the biography of users, whose categories were agreed by the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans).