{"id":31030,"date":"2020-12-15T17:02:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T22:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31030"},"modified":"2021-06-13T18:36:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T22:36:30","slug":"dismissing-big-sur-notifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/15\/dismissing-big-sur-notifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Dismissing Big Sur Notifications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyler Hall<\/a>:<\/p>\n

An example of unhelpful alerts that you didn’t opt-in to and can’t opt-out of are hot marketing garbage<\/a> like this.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

But I digress. Helpful or spam-like, the UX problem is dismissing them.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

Because, in almost all instances of an alert appearing, I want to know<\/em> about it, but way less frequently do I want to open the entire app behind it.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

For those of you keeping score at home, that’s a 22pt x 22pt target out of the banner’s total 346pt x 78pt. Or 1.8% of the total size.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

If you move your mouse towards the notification intending to dismiss it, the clickable area (without backtracking your mouse) is this even smaller green part.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I usually want to mark a Messages notification as read (which takes multiple clicks) or dismiss a notification from another app (which has a small click target). The big click target is for opening the app, which is rarely what I want.<\/p>\n\n

Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Notifications remain a system feature that, at least on Apple’s platforms, asks a lot from users for such simple benefit. On iOS and MacOS, it is too easy to be zipped into a different app, especially if you are trying to dismiss the notification instead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n