Questions tagged [notification]
a message to a user about some event.
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Alerts, notifications, (status) messages - looking for real practical examples [closed]
Are there somewhere real practical examples of texts for alerts, notifications and status messages? I thought of something like a library where you could search for an area and find ideas and examples?...
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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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Given CSRF protection, how can I deal with an extremely slow user?
We use a CSRF cookie on all of our forms that send data via HTTP POST. By default, the CSRF cookie out lives the session cookie by 2+ hours, in order to ensure it does not expire for users that still ...
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Mobile App: Data Update Notification
I have a mobile app that displays simple data for a large set of items. The entire database is downloaded to the device (<5MB) on first run but requires updates in between source code updates.
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Is putting a toast in the lower part of the screen the optimal position?
On Android, a toast is a transient confirmation message appearing in the lower portion of the screen. Did Google consciously position the toast here for optimal usability?
I want to port this toast ...
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how to make (and break) inheritance obvious
I have to design a screen for configuring notifications for a tool that manages tasks. Tasks are organized into projects.
There are general (or default) user preferences on what notification to be ...
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Prominent Notification Areas in a Desktop Application
I am working on ux for a desktop application for users. I am looking to find out more information, answers, best practices when it comes to handling notifications of actions and other alerts within a ...
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Why do error and success messages have a close button?
It seems really weird as they usually do nothing, only hide themselves. Is it a "turn a blind eye to problem in hope it goes away"?
I'm talking about inline status message like this one from Twitter'...
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Are push notifications for an app update a good user experience?
We have an iPhone app available in the app store that utilizes push notifications. Normally we use this functionality to inform users when new podcasts are available (usually once a week).
We've ...
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Notification for remove operations
Is it advisable to notify a person for remove operations such as rejection, delete, removals, etc. For example, if I share to someone a document and later on if it's removed. Should it be notified to ...
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Which case is good UX? A Peugeot VS BMW Story [closed]
This question applies to a different product than most UX designers are used to discuss: cars.
Long story short, in my short 7 year driving experience I've be mostly driving two cars: a 2005 Peugeot ...
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Notification when user leaves a page, if a background task is running?
I am developing a page which allows users to select files to upload to my server. While the files are being uploaded, if the user navigates to a different page (using the browser back button, for ...
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How to announce launch of mobile version (Native apps + website) of a website
What is best way to inform to user of desktop website that now website have Mobile version of website and native apps for many platforms?
A permanent section on website to tell about it with icons.
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Should I put an alert view notifying the user of a successful wall post with the Facebook SDK in iPhone?
I am currently developing an iPhone app that connects to Facebook trough its SDK. One of the main functionalities is the option to share a post with a news story from the feed.
So basically I show ...
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Blue or red color for counter of new messages?
I'm trying to implement an inbox for users and there is an indicator in the site that shows you how many new messages you have.
When I use blue for notifications it nicely fits in the site, and red ...
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Correct terminology for that circle/bubble with number of notifications in it?
Some applications will overlay some colored bubble/circle with a number to show how many unread messages/notifications or "things to do" are currently available. For instance, it's on Skype to show ...
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Pop-under: Really that bad?
We're currently discussing to add pop-unders to one of our platforms to get users to use one of our notification features. As you can probably imagine, as a UX person I'm really against the use of pop-...
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What will be a good UI design for the iPhone app wise notification
I have a background thread working on collecting data, once that's ready, I want to send out a global notification such that all the views can get it. That's easily achievable logically. But visually, ...
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best approach to notification/error message notifications
in the application i'm working on, there are 2 types of notifications:
Confirmation messages (successful action results) and Alerts (unsuccessful action results/errors and Session expiration prompts). ...
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Best location for site-wide music player?
This is for a site that previewing songs while browsing will be essential.
Possible locations for music player:
Glued to top
Floating top bar
Floating bottom of window
Other?
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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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What is a good clean way of notifying the user their action was registered?
I am developing an internal website for managing company resources. The user sees very few full page refreshes. Therefore, when they click "Save" to save their changes, they don't get a refreshed page ...
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What is the most effective color to be used on notifications?
I need to choose a color to be used with notifications. I was placing an exclamation mark over a red circle, but I was told it looks more like an error if you haven't seen it in the UI before. So now ...
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Notification - Best practice
We have been working on developing a web application and I am currently researching best practice for user prompts notifications. We are currently using standard system notifications which work well ...
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What are the best practices for site-wide maintenance notices?
I manage a set of websites with a largely non-technical user base. We want to occasionally provide site-wide notices for forthcoming planned maintenance.
We've tried using a messages with red ...
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When and how to validate forms in a usability perspective?
I am implementing a business application and wounder what's the best way to validate forms, and when.
An example is a form where three textfields where a currency amount is expected. A valid input is ...
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Why people tend to go traditional instead of using their cool reminder phone app?
We all have some cool reminders applications in our phones, that have all the features to remind as at a specific time a task we have to do.
Besides this, as I read in a review/survey, people tend ...
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What is a "toast notification"?
Microsoft mentions the toast as a visual element in the package manifest for Metro-style apps with the attribute ToastCapable="true".
What does this mean?
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How to display interactive notifications inside a pop-up?
I'm currently working on a small shop inside a website.
To keep the shop simple and clean there will open a pop-up when the user adds a product to their cart (to specify the product). The thing is ...
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Why do alarm clocks not all come with 5/7 day alarms for the working week?
In all the advances in usability why do alarm clocks still wake us up on Saturday? Why not only Monday to Friday instead of being set every night?
Do we have to rely on our mobile phone if we want ...
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What image and message use in the "Not found" page (404 error page) [closed]
I've seen the robot of Google, the creature that has Github. I think that is question of imagination and what kind of data manages your web app to design a custom image and the message to show to the ...
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UI : Is it fine to have MessageBox without a caption?
A trivial UI guideline question - Is it ok to have MessageBox without caption ? I have a Winforms GUI with 3 confirmation boxes at different scenarios. Can anybody provide me some formal UI guidelines ...
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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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Best principle for designing notification experience
I'm currently building a the base notification system for a startup I'm working at, and am having a hard time defining the line between being spammy and making 100% sure the user knows about something ...
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What's the appropriate way using desktop like notifications in a webapp (chrome notification feature)
I'm planning to use Chrome's notifications feature.
I want to show important informations on the notifications.
My "users" are highly qualified technical persons, so i think it's good idea.
But not so ...
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Design pattern or best practices for top notification bars?
The top notification bar on SE pops up to show messages like 'badge x earned'. What are the best practices for this type of UI?
Specific details:
On showing - Displace content downward (like on SE) ...
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When is it appropriate to use fading animated messages for feedback and notification.
To clarify: these are messages (text or symbols) that appear right at the point of interaction, and then float away and fade out.
You see this kind of animation when adding people to your Circle in ...
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How to tell the user that an input box is autocomplete-enabled?
Is there a good graphical sign which tells the user that a particular field on the page is autocomplete enabled?
For instance, the field name says "Document author". When you start typing in that ...
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Good examples of notification systems (other than iphone/android)? [closed]
Has anyone seen any good examples of notifications systems out there, aside from iphone or android? I'm looking to design a notifications system that will give the user a gentle nudge (as they work in ...
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What will be the Best notifications and error messages?
As a UI architect, I am always wondering about the best format to display errors and notifications to users.
Which of the following examples is the best format?
Name is required
Name cannot be ...
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Email notification service - registration required or not?
I am creating a notification service in my web app that will allow people to be notified when certain types of postings are published according to their tastes.
They will be able to sign up for ...
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Best Practices for Warning of Session Expiration
Our application has a 30 min auto-expiring session - the session is renewed on server communication.
What is the best way to communicate an expiring session to the user?
My initial thought is a to ...
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What is the optimal alarm handling for a calendar (or todo) event?
I am not statisfied with current alarm handling methods. It got worse, when I moved to my current home, which is a small town, 20 km to the capital. The problem is, that IMHO there should be more than ...
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Snoozing an alarm: should the alarm grow progressively louder or softer?
Hypothetical design question: upon snoozing an alarm, should the alarm grow progressively louder or softer?
Case for louder: you’ve been snoozing too much; wake up now.
Case for softer: maybe you ...
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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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What icon could be used to mean 'notifications'? [closed]
As part of a web-based application, we have a toolbar at the top of the page. The toolbar contains buttons that consist of small (30x30) icons with a single word underneath (for example, a search ...
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Is there an official name for the yellow notification bar that appears on top of browsers like chrome? [duplicate]
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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 have started seeing a lot of browsers/apps start ...
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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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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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