Questions tagged [notification]
a message to a user about some event.
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Should a Notification Center have an infinite history or should it allow the user to close them?
I'm working on a Notification Center (in a web application) and I can't find any information about the notifications history.
So I don't know what is the best behaviour to apply for my notification ...
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How to inform user that value of form field was removed?
We have some background processing on form and in the result, some of the form fields can become null.
So how should information message about this action look like?
The best option we have "The value ...
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Best place for notification preferences
Today I am working on a new feature inside our web app to allow users to set up their notification preferences. However, I am struggling to find an appropriate place to include this feature, which ...
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Is it beneficial for users to be able to change the display location of user and system notifications?
Some back story. I'm working on a data science platform, and sometimes when working with Jupyter, RStudio, H20, etc, displaying notifications works for one type of notebook but not the other.
Because ...
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When to remind with “Remind me later”?
What are some things I should consider and think about that will help me figure out when we should remind the user of something?
For context: Our mobile app is basically a wine collecting app. When ...
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Error on initial push notification subscription
Does it make sense to inform the user with an error message when initial registration to push notifications fails?
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Offline logout of mobile application and receiving notifications
I am siting in a bit of a predicament and cannot find a information about a solution to the predicament on the internet even though I'm sure that someone would have encountered it.
The problem if ...
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Top Notification versus Central Notification
When talking about Notification Design I have seen Notifications placed on the top of the screen, on proximity of where the UI element and action is happening and finally, central, on the screen.
What ...
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How to indicate partial success in an Android notification?
My question is somewhat similar to this question: How to provide an indication for partial success? But I need to show the indication as an Android Notification.
A user can send an alarm (calling for ...
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When to validate if the set of items selected totally valid for the operation?
Case: enterprise web-client solution for sales orders, the User needs to select lots of items to perform one operation in bulk and not all the items are applicable for this operation (due to hidden ...
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In app - planned maintenance and unplanned downtime messaging
I'm designing the messaging for 2 types of scenarios. Planned maintenance, and unplanned downtime. in both cases, certain services on the app won't work, but the rest of the app will function as ...
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Notification to jump to specialist content in feed
Is there a "best in class" example of how to direct users to a specific bit of content in their feed?
I am working on a pilot app that curates articles for students and I am looking for an effective ...
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Notification scheduler for customer support agents
General time schedule can be fixed from 8 AM to 5 PM. How to solve for shift employees? The requirement is a notification schedule feature for support agents (mobile app).
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Using WhatsApp messaging to notify users when their order is ready
I'm designing a food ordering experience for a restaurant and we're considering using WhatsApp Business as a way to notify users when their food is ready. this means users will input their phone ...
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Should I notify the user that the thread owner deleted their post?
I have a website that works like a forum but not exactly. Here, users can create their content of threads while any user can add their posts to this thread. However, the thread creator has editorial ...
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Error notice vs upgrade banner
We have two distinct styles for the following:
An error message (which is a red/black banner at the top of the page)
An upgrade message (which is a light-colored banner prompting the user to upgrade ...
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Since late 2019, why are we seeing a massive increase in pop-up notifications, and why do UI designers think this is a good idea?
This might be slightly broad, but I think most of the questions on this site are somewhat subjective and broad anyway.
Since about late 2019, the number of pop-up notifications and potentially ...
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Displaying flyout menu over fixed notification
I'm designing an intranet application for a client in which notifications are displayed through a fixed flyout pattern in combination with a 'notfication' icon in the header menu. The image says more ...
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Literature on how to design a notification sound?
A part of a thesis, I need to design a couple auditory notifications in a car. Something along the lines of "check tire pressure", which isn't a warning. I have written down some relatively vague ...
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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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Are there guidelines or best practices for notifications or prompts for how to use your app?
I have even seen this in high-end professional 3d applications, where they will always show you messages, notifications, or prompts for how to perform the most basic tasks such as selecting things, ...
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Handling a missed task with a recurring deadline
I'm designing a user interface for a website that allows the user to set deadlines for certain tasks. Some of these tasks can be recurring in a variety of ways (Once per week, once a day, every Monday ...
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How long should notification be stored in a system
Hye,
I'm designing a management tool for admin and an app for user they managed.
I'm not sure of how long should the notification be stored before expiry?
In the app, I suggest to use a 30-day ...
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Notifications Drawer
We are working on a desktop app with lots of events/alerts/notifications.
Because of that, we created a 'notification drawer', similar to the this one:
My question is: do you expect the snackbars and ...
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What is the best way to map a product's system of notifications?
I am looking for some design research or other method which is used to map notification's frequency, priority, and intensity based upon a user's emotion, behavior, etc.
This method could be applied ...
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Do users care about notification settings?
Setting the stage:
We have a mobile-app with multiple services from different domains. Each with their own alerts. We are only talking about PUSH NOTIFICATIONS
Problem
We send alerts from those ...
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What is the best way to notify a user that updates are available in a desktop application?
I have a Windows desktop application that is used as the front-end for a webservice. This application has a database that could get updated from time to time, but it would also work with an old ...
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Position of the number on notification icons [closed]
The number in notification icons is generally displayed on the right side of the bell icon, what is the reason behind this?
Is there anywhere you have seen the reverse where the numbers are on the ...
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How long should a temporary notification (toast) appear?
For our intranet application we have little notification messages (toasts) that indicate successful operations like "information saved," "logged out" etc. Most of them are not important enough to ...
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When should a toast arise in web app? [closed]
When should a toast arise in web app (need psychological suggestion)?
Why Add to favorite action has no toast, while Archive or Delete actions have ones?
Toasts or snackbars are used for low-priority ...
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What's the name for the notification pattern: waiting for the user to respond to a notification before sending the next one?
Some websites (e.g. some forums) send notifications like this:
User asks multiple questions on the site
Other users respond to the questions
The website only notifies the user once (that there has ...
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Stack or use multiple notification toasts
Iāve seen it many times before where youāre on a website and you get a notification which comes in the form of a toast, if you perform the same action another toast will appear and it will push the ...
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Notification panel vs banners
When do you normally add notifications to a slide-out panel vs using a banner for it?
By slide-out panel, this is similar to what I mean:
By banner, this is similar to what I mean (but with a ...
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Toasts on big screens - how to improve noticeability
Our webapp uses toast notifications to inform the user about the results of their action. They are displayed in the bottom right corner.
The problem is that I use a big screen - 32 inch - and the ...
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Handling inactive notifications icons
With our app, there's currently a list of notification icons in the left side of the page. This are to alert you to events or things to do (e.g. you haven't contacted customer x for 30 days, you have ...
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Inclusive notification scheme incorporated into design systems
It seems like the standard RED, YELLOW, GREEN and BLUE colours are used in notification schemes/styles in the most popular development frameworks like Material.io and Bootstrap.
Of course, colours ...
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What is best way to convey to a user that two things are necessary to utilize a feature?
We currently have a feature that allows users to add a Donate form to their page, but this feature is disabled unless you do two things:
Upgrade to a paid account
Connect to Stripe
We want to enable ...
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How should I indicate that a download is in progress?
I have a data table that has a row of buttons with download format options. When one of the buttons is clicked, I want to display some sort of message to indicate that the download preparation process ...
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Desktop app status bar: Notification vs error message
I'm working on a particular feature that requires messages to be shown in the context menu when user clicks on it.
Option 1
Display different icons for different events (Upgrades and errors for ...
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Are “Thank You for Unsubscribing to our Newsletter” emails necessary?
I am about to disable the "Send a Thank You for Unsubscribing to our Newsletter" message for some of our clients as I think it's superfluous and unnecessary.
My suggestion was to have an Unsubscribe ...
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Using progress bars in long web forms: motivating or demotivating?
I've been going through the jQuery demos to determine which UI widgets could be used to help optimize our user's journeys through our web forms.
One such widget is the progress bar, but it raises a ...
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Should alert boxes be avoided at any cost?
Thanks to Gabriel Svennerberg and Sam K for this one - raised in a comment here.
I was fairly casual about alert boxes until a run of user tests where an alert box was put up to warn learners that ...
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What are arguments against the usage of a ticker / marquee on websites?
I was recently asked to add a ticker (with daily updates) to one of our HTML-based dashboards. (A ticker would be text scrolling through the screen. In the past you could achieve something like that ...
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Need help designing a full-screen (laptop) notification viewable at a glance from ~5-7 feet away
I have software I'm working on in which a user has to scan a full pallet's-worth of various items of hardware for inventory-taking purposes (think of a wooden pallet in a warehouse laden with stacks ...
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Does an Administrator need a reminder about other roles?
I'm working on a UI where a site Admin can add another user role. In the mean time, we're calling this new role, "Collaborator".
The Collaborator is typically a freelancer the Admin adds to help ...
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Best time of day to deliver daily notifications?
A while ago I wrote an app for myself that automatically checks if I've been near my gym every day. If I miss a day, I get a mean message the next day like "Missed the gym yesterday, you fat fuck". I'...
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Q: Should notification icon display a number of notifications?
There is notification icon in the header. Should it display the number of notifications? Sometimes the numbers looks bad and not centered, so I wonder to remove the number. Is it necessary for the ...
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Is there a standard for the frequencies and or duration used for beeps?
Is there a standard for the frequencies and or duration used for error or alert beeps?
When I hear a ding or bing sound, I sometimes find that the frequency of the tone is too high or low (in my ...
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The notification tray at the top of Stack Exchange sites: what is it called? And are there other good examples of this?
I'm trying to clean up notifications for a client site and was wondering if the notification pattern that Stack Exchange employs has a name that I can use to search for more examples.
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Alert placement on user interface - debate (need opinions) [closed]
I'd like to have opinions to see things differently or to confirm that my view is better :)
Situation:
We are developing a complicated information system (legal stuff) - lots of information, lots of ...
