Compare how each makes you feel now vs. years ago. For me: • FB's used to be exciting, now its birthdays, group posts, other BS. They're hyperinflating it to zero • Unlike FB, Snapchat's usually means a social interaction • SMS is decent, but automated texts are devaluing it
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Lower quality notifications hurt the user's relationship w/ the product • Noisy slack integrations make the badge unpredictable • Uninteresting content (someone posted a photo) makes me care less about FB • LinkedIn inbound spam means I feel nothing about their notifs
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User behavior can also devalue the app’s notification power, weakening the draw of the product. Ex: • “Mark as unread” for email changes the badge from “unseen” to “incomplete busywork” • Group chat changes SMS badge from “friends are talking to you” to “friends are talking”
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If Apple let apps have two types of notification badges (say, a red and a blue badge) I bet that would help engagement. For example, SMS and Messenger could use the blue badge for unread group chats and red for unread direct message. Email: blue = unread, red = unseen
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I feel like big tech companies (FB, Snap, Slack) need a Steve Jobs-esque notifications czar. It’s so easy to juice engagement of new or declining products by exploiting the notification counter. Engagement booster in the short term, tragedy of the commons in the long run.
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Notification behavior should be customized to each user. When I had 50 followers, I wanted a see every like. I still want my phone to buzz for RTs, but that would obviously stink for
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Perfecting notification behavior is tough: • Should the product decide it all? • Can the user customize? • How much customization? Muting and receiving notifications are both crucial for
@Slack. Look at how complex it gets when you try to juggle defaults and customization!pic.twitter.com/QlBkWGpQAo
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Everyone points to what teens are doing in order to figure out what social networks are dying. Want a more direct sign? Look at the notifications! FB notifies me about so much crap that I miss the real stuff. Snapchat just started notifying me when friends post stories.
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Old school: Ruin your brand? Rebrand! Comcast → Xfinity New school: Ruin the power of your notifications? Separate apps! FB → Messenger, WhatsApp, FB Local Careful though, you’re starting from zero so make them count. Oculus ruined their notification power right away
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Notification UI is sacred. High value notifications should be unmistakable and only used for dopamine bursts. Twitter’s iOS copy animation kills me. Don’t reuse the “someone liked/retweeted your tweet” animation for that. You’re Pavlov, I’m the dog, and you just rang the bell!pic.twitter.com/5kMZzoJzOW
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FB needs a notification nudge unit to trim the fat. For example, display a notification saying > You haven’t checked your high school group in a while. We’ll show you fewer notifications from now on. With a button that lets the user opt back in to receiving all notifications.
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IMO, Apple should enforce notification rules for iOS apps. Apps like DoorDash and Venmo shouldn’t default to texting me and sending a push notification for the same info. That hurts Messages’ brand. Make exceptions for apps like PagerDuty, but be strict otherwise.
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I can’t think of a more tragedy-of-the-commons notification system than email Spam detection is good and newsletter bundling is improving, but creating filters and aggressively snoozing/archiving feels like bad design. Like booby trapping my house just so strangers don’t walk in
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good thread--its for these reasons I have almost all app notifications turned off these days. I prefer to 'push' my attention to an app, rather than have it pulled. It's worth testing out imo (linkedin first, naturally)
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It all makes me feel good, like I can look forward to checking them all out and fending off life’s misery for a bit
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great thread
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Dating apps (namely Bumble) seem to be falling recently to notification bloat, in the pursuit of increasing engagement. Ideally you'd only afford a notification for the dopamine hit of getting a match, but I've getting some bizarre ones recently (maybe because I'm not logging in)pic.twitter.com/hWnx6AEJMT
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I think I just had a mild panic attack.
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The analysis here is great, but it’s also important to acknowledge that right now, this sector’s core revenue model is notification-as-advertising. Notifications are ads (for the platform). Until core utility propositions evolve, this won’t change.https://medium.com/cryptolawreview/what-is-blockchain-hyperutility-ade850f3034d?source=linkShare-7e3dc6459714-1536073461 …
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We’ve been making this argument directly to
@Jack &@TwitterSupport for a while (along with#BigTech) more generally. Twitter’s current revenue model is all about squeezing $$ from users; flip that paradigm, offer users $$-making utility & you’ll thrive. Ex:#TwitterCleanApp
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