Pete Pachal2013-04-15 16:34:04 UTCNicholas Felton, the designer who was instrumental in creating Facebook Timeline, is leaving the company.
Felton shared the news, appropriately, on his Facebook Timeline. He didn't mention what his next project would be, only that he was returning to New York City. He also said he was confident in future Facebook products he contributed to. Here's Felton's full message:
On April 19, 2011 I walked into the Palo Alto Facebook office and began contributing to the timeline project. Two years, many late nights and a few launch celebrations later I will be moving on.
The opportunity to help mold a service of such importance to so many people has been a high point in my professional career. I'm extremely proud of the projects I worked on, grateful to the teams that built them and confident in the products to come.
Facebook didn't respond immediately to a request for comment.
Felton, who specializes in design visualization, got the attention of Facebook by creating a series of compelling infographics based on his own life, putting them together in a graphical "annual report" from 2005 to 2009.
"As soon as we got wind of this at Facebook, we had one reaction: 'We have to try and hire this guy,'" Facebook vice president of product Chris Cox said on stage at Facebook's f8 developer conference in 2011.
Now it appears Felton's work is done at Facebook. Perhaps his vision of personal data visualization is finished, or maybe his work wasn't as well-received as Facebook would have liked (Facebook recently revamped Timeline with a more straightforward look than the original version). In any case, his work in data and design will likely continue in some other form.
Are you a fan of Felton's work, and do you think his departure will hurt or help Facebook? Let us know in the comments.
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