Facebook has redesigned it’s friends and group icons on the Facebook page to reflect gender equality.
The “Friends” icon, in the upper right corner of the page, has long featured a male silhouette in front of a smaller female one. The new icon now shows the woman in front of the man, and the two icons are of the same size. Similarly, the new “Groups” icon now depicts a woman between two men. Before, a man was in the center, between another man and a woman.
Facebook design manager Caitlin Winner revealed that she noticed gender discrepancies in the old design when saw that the male icon was symmetrical but the woman had a chip in her shoulder. The chip was the spot where the man was placed in front of the woman in the “Friends” icon.
She updated the woman’s and man’s hair, as well. The biggest change, though, is the more prominent placement of women in the “Friends” and “Groups” icons. It was a design choice because placing the icons next to each other was confusing, Winner said.
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