We are all living inside the notification hell

gigaom.com — Like you and millions of others, I find myself trapped inside notification hell. Emails, notifications, tweets, text and instant Messages, Facebook Alerts -- are part of our over-notified self. Here is a video that does a great job of capturing this notification hell we live in. Feb 3, 2012 View in Crawl 4

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termousadka Feb 4, 2012

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Om, I have been writing about a related issue on my site for some time now and it’s one I think remains overlooked:
was Steve Jobs’ last UI efforts geared toward solving this “dopamine” addiction?
Unlike Windows Phone, for example, which offers a constant stream of real-time notifications and updates, Apple was hesitant to do anything similar. Even now, iPhone — the original app phone — attempts to force us to focus on one application, one task at a time.
Again, look at the upcoming Windows (PC) UI: a stream of real-time information and a design that encourages multitasking. Whereas Mac OS Lion encourages applications to occupy the entire window and remove everything else.
I don’t hear folks talking about this but it seems to me a very distinct break in UI vision.

thetwintowers Feb 4, 2012

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It's pretty easy to turn off your cell phone if you're getting annoyed. Apparently, people forgot that you can do that.

meccaydna Feb 4, 2012

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True video. Perfect example, when I receive a voicemail...
- 1 notification of the new voicemail from my carrier
- 1 notification of a new transcribed message from google voice
- 1 notification of a new e-mail sent to my gmail from google voice.
- If I missed the call, I also have a notification for that too.
If this happens twice between checking messages, combined with e-mail or other notifications, that's when the devices get turned off and/or thrown against the table.

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mlw4428 Feb 4, 2012

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You can turn off emails going to your gmail from Google Voice and why you're using BOTH your carrier's VM and Google Voice is a bit confusing, unless you're using GV for more than a voicemail service.