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Questions tagged [notification]

a message to a user about some event.

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Why leave read notifications in an inbox?

I am making a website with the primary purpose of creating content (specifically, arguments consisting of interlinked statements), very similar in approach to Stack Exchange. Currently, I am implementing a notification system to notify users of…
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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 information on whether it is mandatory to have…
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How to handle notifications in unfocused window?

I'm having a radio website and whenever a new song comes up, it shows a notification and most of the time you don't have the window focused, so what to do if the user decides to click them? Hide Notification Hide Notification and focus window Note…
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Good examples of notification systems (other than iphone/android)?

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 a desktop software application in a…
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What is the best approach to informing users of new features on a web-based product?

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's available. The feature is hidden under our…
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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 require it. Where is the best place to put these…
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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 aren't functional. Instant: User clicks something…
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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 they should. Of course the user will have…
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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. e.g. The system currently send out email…
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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 exact replacement. There's layout changes, the way info…
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Notification Panel

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 green for notifications and red for error, validation…
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Best practices for background activity notifications

I'm working on an app that does some manipulation and heavy lifting of user inputs behind the scenes while the user can go on to do other things. The timeframe for notifications happens seconds to minutes after the user interaction, not…
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Frequency of notifications and grouping on web

I have questions around the logic of grouping notifications. How does Medium or Facebook treat large amounts of likes and comments? How does it work if a user gets 100 likes in a specific timeframe? What's the standard practice with dealing with…
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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 user X just started playing game Y. It is in a…
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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 workflow for power users on a specific page and will…
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