Design Notifications With User Control
Feedback & States · notifications, user control
Updated 2026-07-28
- Notifications compete for attention. Every notification spends user trust.
- Send notifications only when they provide value.
- Give users control:
- Notification settings.
- Frequency options.
- Quiet periods.
- Separate:
- Important alerts.
- Updates.
- Marketing messages.
- Avoid notification overload:
- More notifications do not mean more engagement.
- They often create avoidance.
- Write notifications clearly:
- What happened?
- Why does it matter?
- What can the user do?
- A good notification respects attention instead of demanding it.
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