Questions tagged [notification]
a message to a user about some event.
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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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How to display actions similar to one another for proper UX
The company I work for have a Search widget which will allow them to search for petrol station sites in the database. A User is able to have a "Saved Search" which will allow them to re-run a detailed ...
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When should users be notified of a pending password expiration
Like many, I am required to change my password periodically. When it is about to expire, I am notified on the logon screen (I connect via VPN), but this notification begins two weeks (14 days) before ...
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Duration of alert messages/notifications
From my understanding, alert messages/notifications should not just disappear after a certain amount of time for accessibility reasons - some people may require more time to read them so they should ...
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When to notify users via email vs onsite
We have a system where users will create groups where things will happen at a fast and slow pace. It is important that all users in the group know that updates have been made. Here are the use cases:
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How to send a non-disturbing notification to users when they are in a game?
This is for a mobile game for Texas poker.
We want to send a notification to our users when the special match they've signed for is about to begin.
But we don't want to disturb them too much when they ...
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Is "you've been logged out" push notification helpful to the user?
I have the Fidelity app installed on my phone, and 5 minutes after I leave my phone, I get this push notification—
Is there any purpose to show this message to the user? I often find it invasive and ...
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When should I notify user about an action he just executed?
In my current project the webApp has a lot of functions the user can interact with. Most of them are actions to manipulate data in database, main data, address, favorites, shopping cart, update order, ...
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When notification needed that does not launch app
I have an (Android) app that has a background service. This service is persistent and even runs in a different process to the man UI app. It serves a specific propose for the user. However, if it runs ...
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Should 'critical' system push notifications be sent regardless of the user's settings?
Should an app push notification system send 'critical, system notifications' if a user has turned off push notifications (much like email systems do). Bearing in mind that contact via email will ...
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Whats the best way to show resolvable notifications?
Example: in a dashboard, mostly i saw it on the header next to messages and user profile/name using a bell icons similar to the image below:
On the other hand (this is what I am using now), i have ...
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Multiple notifications for the same thing
I am not a UX expert but since I work in internet space I have some interest in it.
I am slightly bothered by multiple notifications for the same thing I receive on my mobile phone (I use android). ...
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When to use different Android toast durations?
I'm making an Android app and I'm having difficulty determining what duration of 'Toast' I should use.
I'm currently popping up a 'Toast' for an error message which is rather short. I also know I ...
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How do I display two notifications types on same icon?
What is the best way to display two notification statuses on one icon. Business has requested need to view escalated items as well as new items on first glance.
I would like to know is if its proper ...
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Should a user get a notification if someone leaves an activity?
I'm setting up a web app where a user can post an activity. Each activity needs participants. One of the features I think would be helpful if the owner of the post was notified when another user joins ...
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Notifying Friends When New Friend Joined?
What seems like the proper way to notify friends that a new friend has joined. Pros and cons for each scenario from experience would be helpful, from a UX perspective I'm interesting and seeing which ...
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Non-technical term for AD Credential
In one of the mail notification I have seen a message like "Please login with your AD credential". For a technical user we know what is AD and what is AD credential. But what about non-technical users....
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When should you mark something as read?
I'm building an application where a user can be mentioned by another user and they get a notification. Similarly, they can send e-mails and they get a notification when someone replies to that e-mail.
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Is a notification counter needed?
I didn't find anything about this. I would like to know if there is any problem in using just a floating circle, warning the user about new notifications or should I display the number of ...
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"No video device" feedback examples
My app uses the webcam, some users may have a device not supported or even no device at all.
Could you guys give an example of "negative" feedback to the user? I can't decide.
"No device detected"
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Is a "Login Successful" Message Necessary?
On an informational/forum website (say, similar to a StackExchange site), is it necessary to show a "login successful" message?
Clarification: On the site in question, the users can log in by ...
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How do you decide whether you should show a success message or not?
I have an application where the user can perform the following actions.
Delete a project - Followed by a confirmation
Rename a project
Share a project
Remove a shared user
For those actions, as ...
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Notify a user why nothing happened
I'm writing a content filtering application that operates at the hardware level. The UI is basically out of the picture once the user starts the filter, as it is hidden in the windows task tray.
As a ...
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Website notifications [closed]
I am kicking around the idea of putting in place a new design pattern for notifications. These notifications would contain important/very useful information for the user but I don't want to block the ...
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How to let users know how to manually send notifications?
We're dealing with a schedule in our system that is composed of many tasks. Based on user feedback, we're introducing a "per cell" edit mechanism into the schedule grid to facilitate easy updating.
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Notification messages in game UI
For multi-player strategy games, you often end up wanting to show some sort of non-essential notifications. E.g. "Foo and Baz have started fighting" "Bar has entered your capital city" "Bob has been ...
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Easy and intuitive way to prompt the user for data entry throughout the day? (iOS app)
What are some easy, seamless ways to prompt an iOS/mobile user to input data throughout the day (e.g. for a food diary), from both the notification and the data entry perspective?
So far the best ...
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Using toast for form success and error input
is it natural to use toast notification for a success and error on form validation? I know android and google mail uses this on their application, but I cannot verify why this is the best solution ...
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Any good suggestions to alert / remind user to save after editing field on a web page?
I have an asp.net-mvc site and a page that has a large number of editable fields table rows, etc that all can be edited. Because the page is quite long the save button often is not visible on the ...
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Should notifications "add up" if shown in a menu?
I have a B2B web app in which users can pay to add elements to their public profile. We are keen not to make it look too "e-commerce" as it is for financial companies rather than B2C.
Currently, ...
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Is there a list of conventions and standards for notifications, warnings, and messages directed at the user?
My team and I are working on a style guide for our programs that will be both in the form of webapps and programs. While creating this style guide, we are researching common practices in order to make ...
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Choosing sound and sequence for Timer Camera countdown in terms of UX
Interesting conflict.
I'm developing Timer camera app(IOS).
Generally , this app let set the timer to any number of seconds you want, when the time reaches 0 theres shutter sound and the image saves....
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How often should I send email notifications from a chat app?
So I have a site that has live messaging system to chat with other users in realtime.
How often should I EMAIL them saying "You have a new message on ...". If they are heavily chatting it would ...
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Allow push notifications dialog in android
We are creating an alert to the user asking for permissions on sending push notifications. We need this in ios and android.
The thing is that even though I found an example in ios (find attached) I ...
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Designing a popup notice for a game
To put this question in context, this is for a (mouse-driven) ui-heavy game. During this game many popup windows will appear. They are mostly non-interactive, just displaying updates on various ...
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Descriptive notification or CTA?
I'm working on the notification system for a web app. It has very few messages to display, but these are very important in the use of the platform.
I was wondering if it would be best to include call-...
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Inform user of an update without being intrusive?
How could I inform users of my website that I'm removing some features like author, duration, etc on the search results and explain that it causes it to slow down drastically without being too ...
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How to inform user about multiple important events at one moment
I have to show user information about many important events at one moment - e.g. when he enters the app. So far I was showing just one event but now requirements changed and multiple events must be ...
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Dropdowns within dropdowns
We are mocking out new notifications and requests panels for our web app and I wanted to see if anyone had any ideas on a better way to represent this concept of a dropdown within a dropdown.
I don't ...
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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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Displaying notifications in a dashboard
This is a bit of an opinion question, so I'll understand if it will be closed.
We're designing a web-based dashboard with several tabs, one of which is the dashboard's snapshot page / welcome page. ...
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Android: toast vs alert dialog
In Android application, which one should be prefered - toast notification or alert dialog? Or better, where should we use toasts and where should we use dialogs?
Personally I would use toast for ...
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Too many buttons in an iOS application
I'm working on an iOS application in which one of the main screens contains several buttons and a notification. This notification must be clear as it provides essential information for using the app.
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Would emailing everyone who used our commenting system (over the last year) about a change be intrusive?
My company's news site is relaunching, and as part of this we are replacing our old commenting platform with Disqus. The team came up with the idea to email everyone who used the old platform to give ...
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Android Toasts 'stacking'
I am currently testing an Android application and in two instances, once when liking/unliking a video and another time when there is no internet connection and the refresh button is pressed, the user ...
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What is a good icon for "notifications" tab? [closed]
We're trying to fit a nice notifications tab icon for our app. However, we couldn't find a global icon to define notifications. Facebook uses a globe (we can't use that, as we use globe to "discover/...
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What is the difference between an alert and a warning message?
Is there any difference between an alert and a warning message? When it should be used, under what condition and scenario?
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How to Display Occasional Announcements on a Website?
I’d like to add an announcement banner or an element with the same functionality (e.g. alert, button) to a website to notify users about an upcoming survey. It should contain a call for participation, ...
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Using full-screen mode for left-side panel on iOS and Android
In Gmail app for iOS and Android, tapping on hamburger menu opens the left-side panel. On iOS, this opens in full-screen mode hiding the status bar but in Android it doesn't. Is there some reason that ...
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I have page that contains a list of tenants that are currently active.
To add a new one, there is a link to a full page form that adds the new client to the list of active tenants.
This operation ...
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