Notification overload and coping with dark design patterns.

Design in 2017. Here’s how most of ours days start. We wake up swearing because we need another 2 hours sleep, turn off the alarm and check our phone. When we swipe down the notifications drawer, we see tonnes of work emails, Instagram and Facebook notifications, Slack messages and calendar invites. Even Medium notifies me of… Continue reading Notification overload and coping with dark design patterns.

Notification Styles with CSS Animations for Inspirations

There are some simple ideas and effects for unobtrusive website notifications. There are a lot of ways to show an unobtrusive message to a user: from the classic growl-like notification to a bar at the top of the viewport. There’s really no limit to making creative notification styles and effects but you should keep in… Continue reading Notification Styles with CSS Animations for Inspirations