Questions tagged [notification]
a message to a user about some event.
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Improving notification alerts UI / UX
We've got a notification system on a CRM type web app.
There are many stages in the CRM, and each stage has many projects, each project can have many notifications.
We have a dashboard showing the ...
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Is it necessary to notify users that everything is OK?
“Your virus database has been updated.”
“Your plugin is up to date.” (major software vendor)
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I’ve noticed that a few software programs like to notify that “everything is okay”. Notifying the user ...
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Handle Push Notification when app is in foreground
Let's imagine i'm building a football gamblers app. In my app the user can "follow" the game that is currently "active" (The closest game that the user has gambled on).
The main screen will show the ...
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Should auto notifications include greeting / salutations?
I have built a template to follow when creating auto notifications from an internal system (for employees only), I had been advocating for including the greeting Hello <Name>.
Currently the ...
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How do Notifications affect User Behavior?
We all use notifications in some form to keep us informed of what is happening around us. If we got a new e-mail, a new text message, a missed phone call, a mention in a tweet, a Facebook like or ...
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Alternative method of displaying notification alert to user with awkward icons
Due to the awkward nature of my notification icon, I've been forced to settle with a red dot near the notifications icon, which seems less than ideal from a UX point of view particularly because it ...
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Notify in-app or device-level in an enterprise mobile app
User is suppose to use this app all day in the field while taking orders. Order could be saved offline (when network is not available) and saved on server when network is available again. If the data ...
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What is the best way to handle mobile notifications with desktop clients?
I don't have an application that I'm currently working on, but issues I have both heard from others and experienced myself got me thinking.
Some messengers (I have Hangouts in mind) have "...
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What is a better phrase that will inform the user about app autostart?
What is a better phrase that will inform a user about an app autostart after power connected:
"App will run automatically on power connected"
"App will start autommatically when power connected"
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Notification patterns in ios7
Are there any useful notification patterns in iOS7 for alerting users that an action (such as a download) completed successfully? A comparison would be Android's 'Toast' notification. I couldn't find ...
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Floating animated message vs. confirmation message. When to use each?
Some pre-clarifications:
By floating animated messages I mean the Firefox style messages usually appearing bottom right of the window, for example, when a file downloaded successfully.
By ...
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How to let users know of a new feature available throughout the website?
We are considering making our product's feature available as an add-on that websites can enable within themselves.
Any help with the following is appreciated:
What are some effective ways of letting ...
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How Do I Avoid Users Becoming Numb to Warnings?
I've been thinking about this a lot lately because it's bitten me in the behind a few times.
Think of the Windows User Account Control in Windows Vista (and to a lesser extent Windows 7). The idea is ...
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Web App - How to grab the user's attention no matter what! (notifications)
I'm working on a web application that, among other things, receives orders for a business. There's a page where the orders are listed, and it is refreshed at fixed intervals so that the list shown on-...
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Notifications - static, dynamic and interactive in a single place?
I am developing a web application that, in a nutshell, does the following: it takes something from A, does an operation with it and place the output in B, just like a converter. This process can be ...
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New vs. Unread notifications
(This may be a pure opinion question, in which case feel free to close...)
I'm trying to come up with the list of pros/cons of two forms of user notifications around messaging. Think of email, or ...
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Email notifications: "You've received a message" vs the full message
While working on a web-based business management tool, we're looking into adding forums.
Let's say a user has notifications turned on, for every time someone posts in a topic you've created or ...
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Is it okay to use red and green in another way than notification purposes?
Red and green are strongly associated with "error" and "confirmation" so I was wondering whether it is okay to use those colors for elements which are not neccessarily notification/feedback items, ...
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Why Gmail, Dropbox have started using bell for notification icon?
Recently, I've seen that Gmail and Dropbox have changed their notification icon and have started using bell.
I would like to understand:
Why bell?
Is it becoming industry standard?
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Event notification & Activity notification - on the same page
My first ever question on UX. The problem is with a desktop web app, it currently plays host to an "activity" ticker (where activities of other users and self are displayed in a cubic spin animation ...
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What is the best way to confirm something has been copied?
I have a 'Copy' button that copies generated output to the system clipboard.
What is the best way to confirm that it has been copied? I was thinking of those possibilities:
A dialog "Copied."
A ...
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Where to Put Credits for an App
I made an application that includes a list of credits. This contains, among other things, names of people who have helped, Kickstarter backers, and legal notices for software libraries I've used that ...
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Placement of flash/growl notifications or messages in web application
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I have been wading through tons of questions on the topic of flash/growl notifications, but none of them touch on where those notifications should be placed and why they should be placed ...
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Timer for undos (aka ctrl + z for pointing devices)
We are in the middle of an endless conversation* in the office :
Should undos have a timer before disappearance or should they be displayed until next action?
In our discussion, closing or changing ...
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Best practices for application alerts
As a developer, I'm always confused about the three basic values of any application's alert:
Title
Message
Dismiss button
What should be placed in those 3 values? FAQ for myself:
Should the title ...
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Partial success message when deleting items
In one of our applications, the user can select multiple items and delete as many of them as they wish in single click.
However, while processing this request there is some validation and ...
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Should I retry a manual refresh when network is available?
I have a mobile app that automatically downloads user content from the Internet according to a schedule. Sometimes it might miss a scheduled update because the device wasn't connected to the Internet ...
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Use old or new name for an update confirmation message when name itself has been updated?
I want to provide a user of a web application some confirmation message like:
The task "foobar" has been successfully updated.
Now, in term of usability, if the update consists in changing task’s ...
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Should I send the private message body in the notifying email?
My website is a bit similar to StackExchange sites in regards of user interaction, but additionally it has a private messaging system. A message has a subject and a body.
Every time a new message or ...
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Should a mobile media app lower volume or pause?
When designing mobile media apps (specifically audio-only ones), what should they do when a notification comes in and phone volume is on?
I noticed two different behaviors on my phone - Spotify will ...
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Alerting visitors to a website of a current event (e.g. breaking news)
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We have a website for a conference. As part of the process of the conference, we invite people to submit sessions, but only for a limited period of time. We want to alert visitors to the ...
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How should I handle playing multiple alarms?
I have a web application that monitors a service (polls) every 30 seconds or so, and displays any new records (notifications). Each one of these must be acknowledged by an operator. The customer has ...
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Experience with effective subject and body for "credit card expiring soon" emails
I have a subscription service that has a few dozen subscribers drop off every month because of expired credit cards. I was hoping to gain a little insight into some best practices for an email to prod ...
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How to define/classify messages and notifications in web applications
I have seen content from various style guides and UX guidelines about this, and was wondering if there is a much more simple system to create a consistent and easy to implement design for various ...
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How best to draw the users to a potential issue in the data they have entered
I have a form where the user can update project information. A project is linked to an organisation, and an organisation has license(s) - which has an expiry date. When updating the project, if the ...
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Notification Panel [closed]
What do you think is the best way to present a standard notification panel in a system to the user?
Widely adopted is the 100% width bar at the top of the page with an icon. Generally this bar is ...
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Is this a good way of attracting a user's attention to a message?
I need to draw my users' attention to a warning message, alerting them to a problem and giving guidance of what they need to do next. The message does not appear on a popup box, since that would mean ...
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When showing alert notifications, should I notify simply that "alerts exist" or give a number?
I have an "alert menu" that currently shows the number of unseen alerts.
Alerts are e.g., comments on status, name tagged, etc.
The indication that there are alerts prompts the user to click on the ...
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Page updating: "full", "notification" or "replacing"
What is the best user experience with the auto-updating pages - for example, a list of songs. Currently I'm thinking about three good possible solutions:
"Full" update: when the new content appear at ...
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Messaging a user success and error messages at the same time
There's a screen in our app where the user performs a batch action to list some products on their online store. In the UI, they select the products from a list and click a 'list' button.
During this ...
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Which one you think is better approach for viewing notification - facebook or quora/forrst?
Which one you think is better approach for viewing notification - facebook or quora/forrst (where you need to hitting the clear notification button) and why?
For reading notification in fb, you just ...
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Should chat users be informed when the other user closes chat?
In an application which allows 2 people to chat with each other in indiviual windows,
if user 1 closes the chat window, should user 2 be notified that user 1 closed the chat? (e.g User 1 Closed Chat ...
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Colour status notification for admin
I have to design , a website for a inventory storage firm. The items that are displayed , have three different status
1) In the store
2) Outside
3) Under Process,
When user , visits the homepage, ...
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Growl notifications in web application
The web application I work on includes long running tasks that show progress in the browser. While a task is running the user can browser and use the rest of the application. Would a pattern like ...
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What is the idea behind the download dialog of Internet Explorer?
In Internet Explorer 11 the file download dialog appears at the bottom of the window. I know many people who don't know where to find the "save" and "open" buttons after having ...
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How to differentiate errors: notify user or log silently
Software generally have means to detect errors, like catching exceptions, and these can be categorized :
App cannot run, some prerequisite not met.
App failed to start.
App started but some parts ...
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Best Way to provide Notifications to user using Metro UI approach?
I'm a developer, not a designer or UI designer.
I'm developing a system and trying to use Metro UI concepts.
What is the best (or correct) way to provide a user notifications about errors using ...
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How long can a user remember what they were working on?
A web application lets the user browse its screens for future or past months. The time period the user is currently viewing follows the user through every screen of the system. But users can be ...
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When to display a success notification from modal window
I'm working on a web app which heavily uses modal windows to display forms/options for different tasks. Some of the modals have a one time only 'confirm' action which warrants a 'success notification' ...
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Should a confirmation of the style "Your message has been deleted" be green, yellow, red?
For success messages, I usually use green, for warnings yellow and for errors red. Now in the trash folder users can delete messages permanently and restore messages.
I got confused which color would ...