Blackberry Notifications
HP Palm WebOS
WP7 Notifications
• Raw
• Toast
• Tile
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But this is a platform problem.
What can you do as an application designer?
What’s wrong with alerts?
• They interrupt the user
• They only contain a little bit of information
• They follow us everywhere
What’s good about alerts?
• They interrupt the user
• They only contain a little bit of information
• They follow us everywhere
What’s the distinction?
• We want some alerts, but we don’t want others
• We want them sometimes, and not other times
• How are we to know which is which?
Eisenhower Matrix
• Stephen Covey in “7 Habits of Highly Effective People”
• Habit 3:Put First Things First
Urgent Not Urgent
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problemsDeadlines
PreventionNew opportunitiesRecreation
Interruptions TriviaTime wasters
Meeting with CEOWife in labor
Old friend has checked in nearby
eBay auction ended
RSS feeds updated
?Depends on whenit happens, whatelse is going on, andwhat the informationis for.
Context
Context is both the Curse and Opportunity
of Mobile
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Rule 1
Never notify the user unless you’re certain it is both urgent and important
Rule 2
Try to glean what is important to the user by what they do.
Only if you can not find any other way, enable the user to define what is important to
them
Rule 3
Try to help the user forecast that something important is
going to happen soon
The only way to prevent an interruption
Enable the user to predict
upcoming events and developing situations
Help them maintain awareness
Stop Interrupting Your Users
• Rule 1: Interrupt only for the urgent and important
• Rule 2: Figure out what is important through context
• Rule 3: Help the user maintain awareness and forecast
events
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• Irina, Angelina, and Alexander of Lucrat
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• All the brilliant people of VMware Sofia
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