Focused attention makes people miss things in plain sight, including changes to the interface they are using.
Psychology · Attention
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notifications
Entries tagged notifications, drawn from across the library. Tags cut through the section structure, which is where most of the useful connections are.
7 entries across 3 sections
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Absorbed, effortless concentration occurs when challenge and skill are balanced, and interruptions destroy it.
Psychology · Engagement
Telling users something happened, where the default should be not to interrupt.
Pattern · Communication
A brief confirmation that disappears, which makes it unsuitable for anything the user must act on.
Component · Feedback
Multiple people in one document raises three questions: who else is here, who can do what, and what happens when two people change the same thing.
Pattern · Structure
Front-load the specific thing that happened, because most notifications are read as a truncated line on a lock screen.
UX writing · UX writing
Every team that added a feature added a notification, and users responded by turning all of them off.
Case study · Collaboration