Questions tagged [notification]
a message to a user about some event.
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Mobile interface - how to non-obtrusively ask user to do an optional action (alert equivalent)?
Modern mobile users have been conditioned to very quickly find the X, close or cancel buttons to dismiss all kinds of modal dialogs and ads in mobile apps. The typical scenario is - a user returns to ...
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Save "notification" for multi-page form where every action saves
I have a web application that rates a person's performance: there are a number of questions regarding the person, where each question is a rating (poor to excellent) represented by radio buttons, and ...
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Does spamming users work?
If there's one thing that drives me absolutely mad it's when I sign up to a website or an app and they send me emails without my consent to either "remind" me to use their product more often or give ...
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Showing remaining time in a web app
We have developed the interface of a web application which lets the user manage some remote equipments for a limited amount of time. Basically, it is used in this way:
User A reserves the hardware.
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Edit mobile notifications on desktop client
Should there be a setting in the desktop client to let users edit mobile notifications? Is it ok to not allow this in the desktop client and just let them set mobile notification preferences from ...
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Best practice when designing screen reader friendly notification functionality
I am curious how you should approach the design of notification functionality with screen readers in mind.
Let's take Facebook as an example. If someone comments on one of your posts. A little popup ...
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How to indicate a disabled core functionality?
How should a certain action be disabled, when the user has run out of necessary permissions to perform that action?
Specifically, I am designing a search engine where each search may take up to an ...
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Notifications of sticky filters that have been applied
I am curious as to whether notification of sticky filters should be shown or not.
On the attached screenshot you will see a "Translate search terms" function. If you setup the translation, then you ...
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Are browser desktop notifications better than a browser alert box?
I'm working on a project where I'd like to notify a user of an important event in the application. There are two options that I have at my disposal:
Use the browser/HTML5 Desktop Notifications. These ...
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Desktop notifications permission UX
I have a question, I'm implementing desktop notifications to allow users to see on site notifications while they are browsing another website. I have 2 options to ask for permission:
Give the user an ...
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How to show user that page objects automatically update
I'm working on an online auction site. We're working on functionality to make the user dashboard auto-update without refreshing, so a user can see bids update real-time. The bid price and time updates,...
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User notifications on a social network type site
I am trying to create a notification list for my website which is a small social network. The idea is that the notification list will list all new users who sign up who have similar interests as you, ...
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What's the most user friendly way to inform users that a feature is temporarily going away?
Guests to our site are able to favorite items and see a list of items they favorited on their account page. However, we are planning to temporarily hide this favorite page in their account page for ...
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High-DPI Screens & Browser Zoom
I have a responsive web design that also supports high-DPI screens using targeted css media queries to modify content further. In general, the content displays perfectly - but I'm running into some ...
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Should I show a notification on an automatic save?
I have a web application in which a user can create filters for a news feed.
When the user creates or modifies his filters, everything is saved to the server through API requests (without the need ...
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Not notify user about bad results?
I'm developing an App that saves a user time doing something by giving the user instrcutions every step of the way.
To make it more rewarding to use the App I want to give him some feedback on how ...
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Disabled JavaScript notice, AFTER user signup?
My site relies heavily on JavaScript, and the site is based on user signup
If a user is logged in and has javascript disabled, it throws a notice and disables all major site functions
The question ...
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Should upload or download progress notifications be summarized on Android L?
Google recently released new design guidelines for the upcoming Android L.
In those guidelines, they say multiple similar notifications should be summarized.
Does anyone know if this applies to ...
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Show message after cancellation
On my website, users can create, edit and cancel event dates
Would it be weird or user-unfriendly to not serve users a message after canceling a date? (it redirects to the overview page)
I'm aiming ...
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The usefulness of home appliances sound notification?
In our homes we now have home appliances such as a dish washing machine, a microwave oven, a washing machine, a tumble drier. Every one of these appliances makes a little sound notification when it's ...
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Removing features - should there be flags to notify users beforehand?
We have a legacy system with some reports that are old and badly implemented (both from code & UX perspective). There are some newer reports that gives user very similar info, but it's not an ...
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What are the boundaries of Notification?
You've all seen this from time to time - the never ending notification provider spamming you with e-mail, or a new Facebook attached games notifying you that "all your lives are back" or that friend ...
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Should I show the troll that I know he's trolling?
I'm building an online store that has many features and functions.
Whenever a user interacts with the site a notification is shown.
These notifications should give the user a response to his action ...
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What's the best approach: real time email notifications or digest emails at regular intervals?
I have a Q/A site that deals with my area of medical practice. I'm a doctor and a programmer. Users can do the typical things like follow threads and other users.
I don't want to spam users all the ...
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notify user of not being able to update array
I have an array of images that is loaded on my iphone through the internet. It is then cached.
If I don't have any internet or bad internet should I load the cached array with:
An on screen alert ...
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Compare engagement of different push mediums
We're wondering if there's research on the engagement levels of different push mediums, i.e. CTR's of email vs. iOS notifications vs. android notifications vs. etc.
Had a google, and a search here, ...
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Should power users be notified when a new feature will change their existing workflow?
We have a legacy application that has a sizeable group of power users. We will be releasing a new feature that will improve the experience for new and regular users, but we know it will impact the ...
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What is the best the message "Server is not Running" or "Please start the server" and why?
I need to show theis error message when local server is not running. I need to know which message is delivering the right information.
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A good way to manage notifications read/unread in my social network
I'm building a social network that triggers some notifications to the user regarding friends' comments, similar to Facebook notifications.
The notification simply serves as an alert, meaning that it'...
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What is a useful way of doing "all ok" notifications?
Who watches the watchers
A monitoring system (e.g. nagios) usually has a good way of producing warnings and change-notifications. But the worst thing that can happen is to miss an event because the ...
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Alternative to modal error messages with only one button
We are rewriting our desktop application and we are thinking of improving the error handling and error notifications. Currently, it is based on modal dialogs. But we have a lot of errors like "You ...
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Error handling - what to do with large error list?
We are rewriting our desktop application and we are thinking of improving the error handling and error notifications. Currently, it is only based on modal dialogs. But some of the messages contain ...
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Feedback : notification displaying and removal
I have some web applications which allow the users to do some actions.
For example, i need to show a paginated items list.
When the user clicks the "Create Item" button, a modal window is displayed. ...
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Official name for iOS bar which notifies web browser of native app
Super simple question (I think) - does anyone know what the official term is for the non-intrusive apple bar which notifies a user of an available app to use natively on their phone?
For an example, ...
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Android notification settings for user-set reminders
I am writing an Android application for a music festival. I want to enable my users to set an alarm to remind them that their favorite artists will be on stage soon. When this happens, I display a ...
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Is a Loading label / notification on link click / redirect necessary?
Is a Loading label / notification on link click / redirect necessary?
Nowadays if I click a link the only sign that something is happening or processing is that the favicon on the tab changes into a ...
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Possible (best) way(s) to provide feedback for an action of Google Chrome Extension ContextMenu
I am making a Google Chrome Extension called Duolingo Notes, this extension can help the Duolingo learner bookmark the sentence in Duolingo courses.
I would like to use a ContextMenu (the chrome....
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Why are email notifications editable in desktop clients but not in mobile apps (i.e. Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest)
If you open (on your desktop) Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest, you can edit your email notifications settings, but obviously not your mobile settings.
If you open your mobile app, however, why are ...
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iOS Notification pattern question
I'm trying to figure out a UX solution to a notification problem. If there is a notification badge that appears on an app on an iOS device, when the user taps the app icon is there an expectation that ...
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What is the best approach to informing users of new features on a web-based product? [duplicate]
I'd like to inform users of new features that are happening in our web portal. This feature is not applicable to all users but may be useful to others; nonetheless we'd like to raise awareness that it'...
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Notifications with several lines of information
I'm making an application that checks for wind speed and direction on several locations and made notification that shows when a location has enough wind.
The information the notification should hold ...
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Why don't iOS games show the correct number of notifications in the app icon?
I've observed a common behaviour among most games for iOS devices, they constantly generate push notifications, but show just one on the app icon.
So, most of the time they look like this:
You can't ...
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Getting users to dismiss alerts or notifications
I have a system where any events worthy of attention are displayed as notifications and highlighted in red on the main tool bar with a drop down menu. See picture. The user then has the ability to ...
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Sending an invite to iOS application without request dialog [closed]
I'm quite not sure if this is the correct place to ask, but it might be. I've installed an iOS application because friend of mine recommended it. That app is called "Meow". After installation I ...
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Improving the process flow and increasing the clarity of my mobile app
I've been redeveloping the notifications/ride sharing option in my taxi booking and sharing application.
The Premise
When a user requests a seat in a taxi you've booked, then you receive a ...
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Is the following phrase appropriate for my notifications screen?
I'm working on a mobile app which allows users to book and share taxi journeys. One of the features in the app is a notifications screen which alerts the user each time they get a request for a seat ...
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How to prompt users to give feedback on widget design without biasing their answers?
We have a set of matching widgets we use as a homepage for an app. The user can interact with those widgets causing various notification dialogs. I think these dialogs should match the look and feel ...
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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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