Instant articles, you see, is the direct descendant of facebook paper. When you download paper, youre greeted with a reimagined interface for the. Jan 30, 2014 meet paper, facebooks new answer for browsing and creating mobile media. For a glimpse of facebook s future, download its paper app. Facebook s new standalone app paper is now available for download on ios to everyone in the us, and its more than just a content reader. Paper owes that look and feel to mike matas and his team at facebook creative labs, a new company initiative charged with coming up with new.
Paper is the first product from facebook creative labs, where were crafting new apps to support the diverse ways people want to connect and share. Facebook hopes iphone users keep eyes glued to paper app. Facebook paper has forever changed the way we build mobile. For a glimpse of facebooks future, download its paper app. Lobe is a machine learning platform for complete idiots. Adam is a designer at airbnb, previously at last, facebook and gowalla among others. The look and feel of the app were orchestrated by mike matas, whose design firm push pop. He dropped out of high school after he cofounded delicious monster and later worked at apple on. Join facebook to connect with mike matas and others you may know.
Paper is a new way to interact with facebook that is more visually rich and interactive. Heres a demo of a new thing i made in my spare time called the brain. Facebook s paper app might be better for facebook than the facebook app. And, when you experience paper, it is very seamless. The new facebook app is here and its pretty amazing nasdaq. Facebook paper has forever changed the way we build. Facebook announces new iphone app, paper, coming to app store. Just go to the us itunes store on your computer, try and download facebook paper and then make a new account, choosing none as your default payment method. Facebooks role in the changing media landscape today.
Mike matas hit the ground running as a designer and entrepreneur from an early age. Facebook unveils new tool to read posts and news the new. As mike matas, lead designer of the app, told wired, picking up a feed on your phone is nowhere near the experience of picking up your favorite magazine and flipping through it. Mike matas is an entrepreneur, designer, and photographer. Feb 03, 2014 the quiet upheaval of facebooks new iphone app. Feb 01, 2014 paper and the craft of securing facebook s future. Paper engineers, including 18yearold grant paul in blue shirt. Facebook paper for ios finally out but only limited to us users. Facebook adds features to paper, says slow growth is no. Inside facebook headquarters in menlo park, california, mike matas.
Paper and the craft of securing facebooks future cnet. Facebooks new app paper hit the app store this monday, and tech bloggers who rushed to get the first taste have thus far enjoyed what theyre seeing. One major goal of paper is to personalize facebook users experience. Mobile social media becomes personalized with facebooks paper. Michael mike matas born in seattle, washington, march 23, 1986 is a user interface designer and icon artist. Facebook closed the creative labs group last december and matas left facebook earlier this year, so the shuttering of paper is not surprising. To build the app, zuckerberg enlisted mike matas, who designed software for the. When you first download the app, visual and audio instructions show you how to interact with the user. Join facebook to connect with thom matas and others you may know. Michael mike matas is a user interface designer and icon artist. When i asked the team leaders behind paper if they still used the old one, product manager michael reckhow diplomatically responded mmhmm, yeah, but designer mike matas just smiled coyly. The office belongs to cox, and it often hosts meetings like this one, where matas was about to reveal something hed hacked together earlier that morning, after the idea came to him the night before. Feb 04, 2014 paper owes that look and feel to mike matas and his team at facebook creative labs, a new company initiative charged with coming up with new apps. Feb 03, 2014 facebook s new app paper hit the app store this monday, and tech bloggers who rushed to get the first taste have thus far enjoyed what theyre seeing.
Matas started working on potential news feed design changes. Facebooks release of paper yesterday on the app store breaks a string of uninspired releases outside of instagram, and has many believing its a glimpse into the future of mobile interaction. Posted by ben blumenfeld mike matas hit the ground running as a designer and entrepreneur from an early age. Over 3,000 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting. Facebooks paper app might be better for facebook than the. Facebook adds features to paper, says slow growth is no concern.
Sharon hwang and mike matas want you to think of facebook, and the content and information portals that you and your friends follow, as a. Designed for apple, cofounded digital publisher bought by facebook. Called paper not to be confused with this, the app is scheduled to hit the app store next monday, february 3, 2014. Facebook paper team members kimon tsinteris left, mike matas, and scott goodson. Matas started working on potential news feed design changes after his startup, push pop press, was acquired by. Push pop press was acquired by facebook, and mike now is the design lead on recently released facebook paper. From apple, facebook, and nest alum mike matas, lobe makes it so you dont need to be a data scientist to build incredible ai tools.
The look and feel of the app were orchestrated by mike matas, whose design firm push pop press was acquired by facebook in 2011. Facebooks paper app might be better for facebook than the facebook app. Facebook introduced a new app called paper, which is no mere overhaul of the social networks user interface. Facebook is shutting down its paper newsreading app on. Facebook tells me papers product designer mike matas likens building within facebooks main app and website as going in and messing up a billion peoples furniture. Paper is the new face of facebook popular mechanics. We caught up to talk about adams background as a designer, building style guides at scale, the impact of engineering on user experience, and more. So cool to see this incredibly thorough archive of all the little interactions we worked so hard. You can quickly swipe through articles left and right, pull down on an article to flip it open like in flipboard. Paper now available for ios in the us, and it could be a. Its an easy to use neural network built entirely in quartz composer.
Acquired push pop press facebook instant articles with. The company is shutting down the app, which was an attempt at redesigning the standard facebook app, but ultimately failed to capture serious attention from a large. Facebook announces paper, a curated visual news reader. Facebook paper for ios finally out but only limited to us. Feb 16, 2016 heres a demo of a new thing i made in my spare time called the brain. Paper owes that look and feel to mike matas and his team at facebook creative labs, a new company initiative charged with coming up. Facebook inc fb paper app now on ios, execs stop using. The company is shutting down the app, which was an attempt at redesigning the standard facebook app, but ultimately failed to. Try a new navigation mechanic, change how a feature works, or redesign a piece of the ui, and some percentage of the users are sure to freak out. Facebooks new standalone app paper is now available for download on ios to everyone in the us, and its more than just a content reader. This is really focused on content discovery and content browsing, said mike matas, papers product designer. The evolution of facebook creative labs, facebook paper, and eventually, facebook instant articles. As a surprisingly young coder, he cofounded delicious monster, makers of the elegant cataloguing tool delicious library.
Mike matas has worked on some of the most intriguing tech projects of the past 10 years. Ive been able to download and use the app through a us itunes account, which is easy to make. Designer mike matas said there are a few things the paper app doesnt do, like show events, but for the most part, he said the app is enough for what he does on facebook. Jan 30, 2014 but now facebook has officially outed paper with a blog post. He has previously worked at the omni group doing interface and graphic design work. Mike matas is an entrepreneur and designer who has helped bring to life many groundbreaking products and interfaces over the past 15 years. Before he led the paper team, designer mike matas founded push pop press. When it was introduced in january 2014, paper signaled the beginning of a design renaissance at facebook.
Inside facebook headquarters in menlo park, california, mike matas demonstrates a prototype of the tilttoexplore photo viewer offered by the new facebook paper app. In other words, paper could end up being a replacement for the current facebook app. Facebook wants iphone users glued to its paper app. You teach it things and it can learn how to solve pretty. With the new app for reading and writing the news, the social network sets a different tone for whats to come in the next decade. Reckhow diplomatically responded mmhmm, yeah, but designer mike matas just smiled coyly. The focus on news feed is largely thanks to mike matas, the design lead for paper. San francisco if you want to get a glimpse of facebooks future, download paper, the social networks new mobile news reader. While mike matas isnt a developer, hes a user interface designer who helped facebook create its latest app, called paper. Matas has helped design ui at nest labs and apple before he sold his. Jul 01, 2016 facebook has announced that it plans to shut down its standalone news reading app, paper.
Designer mike matas said there are a few things the paper app doesnt do, like show events, but for the most part, he said the app is enough for what he does on. The founding story of push pop press by kimon tsinteris and mike matas. Facebook announces new iphone app, paper, coming to app. In a message to the apps users, facebook thanks them for using the service but states that the app will. Matas cofounded delicious monster in 2004 together with wil shipley. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Feb 03, 2014 when i asked the team leaders behind paper if they still used the old one, product manager michael reckhow diplomatically responded mmhmm, yeah, but designer mike matas just smiled coyly. How facebook turned unloved paper into instant articles. Facebook is shutting down its paper newsreading app on july 29th.
Led by exapple men mike matas and kimon tsinteris, the team that built paper also built instant articles, using many of the. Facebook inc fb paper app now on ios, execs stop using old. Unlike the regular facebook mobile app, paper does away with menus and other distractions. Talking to the verge, product designer mike matas and product manager michael reckhow say that they felt you shouldnt have to choose between one or the other. Heres why facebook is doing the opposite of going paperless. San francisco if you want to get a glimpse of facebooks future. Feb 05, 2014 for a glimpse of facebooks future, download its paper app. Facebook paper has forever changed the way we build mobile apps. The company has released a nice video walkthrough, embedded below the fold, which shows off really nicely done.
When you download paper, youre greeted with a reimagined interface for the news feed. Feb 03, 2014 facebooks new standalone app paper is now available for download on ios to everyone in the us, and its more than just a content reader. During his time at facebook he was integral to the design of facebook paper, facebooks. Facebooks new standalone app paper is now available for download on ios to everyone in the us, and its more than just a. The new card interface is also uifree, just like the new posteditor, with gestures and fullscreen images taking hold of.
Feb 03, 2014 in other words, paper could end up being a replacement for the current facebook app. Facebook is shutting down its dedicated news app, paper the. Facebook users who previously downloaded paper can continue to use it until july 29, 2016, after which facebook has said the app will no longer work. Before he led the paper team, designer mike matas founded push. Paper owes that look and feel to mike matas and his team at facebook creative labs, a new company initiative charged with coming up with new apps. A neural network built entirely in quartz composer. Meet paper, facebooks new answer for browsing and creating mobile media. As a surprisingly young coder, he cofounded delicious monster, makers. Facebook is shutting down its dedicated news app, paper. Paper owes that look and feel to mike matas and his team at facebook creative labs, a.
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