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I use screen zoom, which magnifies a portion of my screen around my cursor. As a result, I miss most desktop notifications. I've turned on the thing that flashe

I use screen zoom, which magnifies a portion of my screen around my cursor. As a result, I miss most desktop notifications. I've turned on the thing that flashes the whole screen when they come in, but pan+scanning over to the notifications pile makes me lose context with what I was working on, so I typically ignore the flash too. I should just turn off all the notifications. There's a lot of "I turn most of them off" here. In parallel, notifications are regularly talked about as a major sticking point around web vs native apps (because Apple). If we, here, aren't using them, why are we building customer-facing tools around them?

seba_dos1 4y ago
Not that I'd advocate for using notifications, but the problem with screen zoom seems easily solvable by showing notifications on an overlay layer that's placed independently of the screen zoom.
Curzel 4y ago
Some people use them and some are very, VERY effective. Problem is, that's like for the 1% of what gets sent out. I've been working with iOS apps for 10 years or so now, I've seen apps where push notifications alone drive 20%+ of the revenue, and other projects where the opt-out rate is ~90% with an open rate of ~10% (meaning literally 99% of users ignore the notification)