Facebook Brand & Visual Design

Context

As Facebook evolved to support how people discover content and connect at scale, its visual foundation needed to evolve with it. Over time, brand and UI patterns had become fragmented and no longer met the bar for clarity, accessibility, or consistency.

I led the redesign of Facebook’s visual design system, focusing on modernizing its most recognizable elements and translating them into a cohesive, extensible system used across both product and marketing. The work unified iconography, color, typography, layout, and accessibility standards into a single, shared foundation.

The result was a system that improved usability and accessibility across the product and established the foundation for how Facebook is designed, built, and marketed today, enabling teams to move faster at scale without sacrificing quality or brand clarity.

You can read more here: “Redefining Facebook’s Brand Identity”

Goal

Simplify and refresh Facebook's visual design

Role

  • Head of Visual Systems
  • Responsible for leading a design team of product designers, illustrators, 3D artists and animators
  • Cross-functional partner with Brand, Marketing, Product Management, and Engineering to define business goals and roadmap

Timeframe

Launched September 2023

Design Work

Redesigned app icon, word mark, and reactions
Redesigned app icon, word mark, and reactions
New visual design system: Blueprint
New visual design system: Blueprint
New icon design system: Nucleus
New icon design system: Nucleus
AX-compliant color contrast ratios
AX-compliant color contrast ratios
Expressive iconography
Expressive iconography
Icon glyphs
Icon glyphs
Vibrant imagery
Vibrant imagery
Decluttered app screens
Decluttered app screens