Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
IMO there are two sensible ways to handle granular push #notification preferences:
1. Use the system’s per-app settings for all of it. (Tusky does this, even putting your per-account preferences in the system UI)
2. Use the app’s settings for all of it, and let the system just be an on/off toggle for what you’ve chosen in the app (like it was before the system had UI for it)
Link: How the Dumb Design of a WWII Plane Led to the Macintosh
The reason why all those pilots were crashing when their B-17s were easing into a landing was that the flaps and landing gear controls looked exactly the same.
The investigation led to the paradigm of user-friendly design.
“Despite substantial improvements in mobile UX over the past decade, people still tend to do their most important online activities on larger screens.”
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/large-devices-important-tasks/
– via @NNgroup
“The Vortex is a user-behavior pattern that begins with a single intentional interaction followed by a series of unplanned interactions. This unplanned chain of interactions creates a sense of being “pulled” deeper into the digital space, making the user feel out of control.”
Yeah, I missed it too: Tunnel Vision and Selective Attention (Jakob Nielsen)