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Quantitative Data:

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Data driven justification for ux/ui changes, especially necessary for organic changes that do not originate from client requests or roadmap features.

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titleHYPOTHESES

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titleREASONING

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Competitor Research:

Function

Findings

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Takeaways

Icon and Position & Badge/Counter

Marketo

  • Header placement, uses ‘paper’ icon

  • Counter as plaintext

Hubspot

  • Header placement, uses ‘bell’ icon

  • Counter with red badge and

number

Mailchimp

  • Bottom of sidebar placement by clicking on company logo, then notifications are under a sub menu

  • Counter
    • number

    appears in green badge

    Facebook

    • Header placement, uses ‘bell’ icon

    • Counter with red badge and number

    LinkedIn

    • Header placement, uses ‘bell’ icon

    • Counter with red badge and number

    Twitter

    • Sidebar placement, uses ‘bell’ icon and ‘Notifications’ title

    • Counter with blue badge and number

    Jira

    • Header placement, uses ‘bell’ icon

    • Counter with red badge and number

    Trello

    • Header placement, uses ‘bell’ icon

    • No counter, entire icon turns red

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    Status
    colourGreen
    titleEmbrace

    • Icon position placed in header most of the time

      • Current ‘notification center’ implementation already in header

    • ‘Bell’ icon used most of the time

      • ‘Bell’ icon currently used, seems to be the most common

    • Counter most of the time contains number of new notifications

      • Good idea to give an indication of how many new things have happened without having to open the notification center

    Status
    colourRed
    titleReject

    • Counter most of the time is red/orange

      • This would be a preferable change as the red colour implies importance, however header is already orange so until this is changed, notification badge will have to be blue colour

    • Icon placement in sidebar

      • Would cause more friction as current notification center implementation is already in header and open action would be harder to facilitate if it doesn’t go directly to full page

    Status
    colourBlue
    titleTO DISCUSS

    Open Action Notification View

    Marketo

    Something
    • Full page dedicated to all notifications

    Hubspot

    • Something

    Mailchimp

    • Something

    • Opens with popout

    Facebook

    Something
    • Opens with popout

    LinkedIn

    Something
    • Full page dedicated to all notifications

    Twitter

    SomethingSomething
    • Full page dedicated to all notifications

    Jira

    • Something

    Trello

    • Opens with popout

    Trello

    • Opens with popout

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    Status
    colourGreen
    titleEmbrace

    • Contents of notification items options on initial open:

      • Show X notifications on popover load, then can scroll or click to ‘load more’ or have pagination, regardless of if read or not, ordered in terms of newest first

    • Mix of opening in full page or opening initial popup

      • Popup has the benefit of having a ‘quick view’ into most recent popups, and can then have the option to ‘View all notifications' from a dedicated page

        • Based on how ‘busy’ this will be, it can be a popout (requires less space) or slide-out (requires more space) and then if even more space is required then we can have a whole dedicated page

    Status
    colourRed
    titleReject

    • Contents of notification items options on initial open:

      • Only show new notifications and ‘read’ notifications are not shown

        • Should show complete history of notifications and shouldn’t ‘remove’ notifications if they’ve been read as users may come back to notifications, e.g. re-downloading reports

    Status
    colourBlue
    titleTO DISCUSS

    Item Structure and Indicators

    Marketo

    • Something

    Hubspot

    • Something

    Mailchimp

    • Something

    Facebook

    • Something

    LinkedIn

    • Something

    Twitter

    • Something

    Jira

    • Something

    Trello

    • Something

    Item Actions

    Marketo

    • Something

    Hubspot

    • Something

    Mailchimp

    • Something

    Facebook

    • Something

    LinkedIn

    • Something

    Twitter

    • Something

    Jira

    • Something

    Trello

    • Something

    Additional Settings

    Marketo

    • Something

    Hubspot

    • Something

    Mailchimp

    • Something

    Facebook

    • Something

    LinkedIn

    • Something

    Twitter

    • Something

    Jira

    • Something

    Trello

    Something

    • Table on left with basic briefing of subject and time

    • Panel on right with more information on what the notification is and actions on notification

    • New notifications are in bold, then once read they are normal font weird

    Hubspot

    • Icon shows type of notification at a glance

    • Type subtitle above main subject of notification

    • Time of receipt on right of notification

    • New notifications have ‘dot’ on the right as well as coloured time of arrival

    Facebook

    • Photo and icon combination shows type of notification at a glance

    • Sentence structure includes ‘who’ it’s for and ‘what’ the notification is about changes depending on type of notification

    • Time of receipt on below of notification

    • New notifications have ‘dot’ on the right as well brighter text colour for new notifications

    LinkedIn

    • Profile photo/company logo/photo combination shows type of notification at a glance

    • Sentence structure includes ‘who’ it’s for and ‘what’ the notification is about changes depending on type of notification

    • Time of receipt on right of notification

    • New notifications have ‘blue’ highlight to contrast again others

    Twitter

    • Photo and icon combination shows type of notification at a glance

    • Sentence structure includes ‘who’ it’s for and ‘what’ the notification is about changes depending on type of notification

    • New notifications have blue background on item panel

    Jira

    • Profile picture shows ‘who’ did the action which provided you a notification

    • Title shows ‘what’ the notification is

    • Preview of notification gives a link to where it occured

    • Time of receipt at bottom of notification

    • New notifications have dot on the right and bold title text

    Trello

    • A whole card containing the action and a preview of all the changes made

    • Title is the card name or subject

    • Time of change next to all actions that have taken place within card timeline

    • Notification dot and blue highlight behind new notifications

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    Status
    colourGreen
    titleEmbrace

    • Blue background highlight to indication new notification

      • Visually this is the easiest way to identify a new notification, and will couple well with bolder font weight for specific copy on notification or time of notification arrival

    • Placement of notification time should be either below or on the right of the notification

      • Depending on the amount of copy shown for each notification item, maybe bottom alignment would be better to allow more space horizontally for copy

    • Different sentence structure for different types of notifications

      • Allows for a subtle differentiation between different notification types

    • Dot indicator to show new notifications

      • Takes up unnessary space where a different coloured background change achieve the same effect without taking up space

      • But can also be used to mark items as ‘read’

        • Use dot indicator as the single action for items will likely just be ‘mark as read’

    • Differenciate notification types achieved through icon or type title

      • Icon can be used to show differernt types of notification usually placed on the left of the item copy, but can take up horizontal space

      • A ‘type’ heading for each notification item could also be helpful but can then increase scrolling

        • Depends on the different notifications we’ll be adding

    Status
    colourRed
    titleReject

    Status
    colourBlue
    titleTO DISCUSS

    Single Item Interaction

    Marketo

    • Common mark as read or unread, delete actions

    • Subscribe action allows setup of notification emails

    Hubspot

    • Option to hide all notifications of a particular type

    • Clicking item marks as unread

    • Clicking notification takes you to related area

    Facebook

    • Common mark as read or unread, delete actions

    • Option to report issue to support

    • Clicking notification takes you to related area

    LinkedIn

    • Common delete action

    • Unfollow action unique to this platform

    • Turn off function hides all notifications of particular type

    • Can only mark a notification as read if it’s clicked on

    • Clicking notification takes you to related area

    Twitter

    • Various social media specific actions

    Jira

    • When hovering over notification, can remove it with 'x'

    • Can only mark individual notification as read by clicking it

    • Clicking notification takes you to related area

    Trello

    • Various links in the timeline within card to take you to notification which marks as read

    • Can click the blue notification dot to mark as read and unread

    • Clicking notification takes you to related area

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    Status
    colourGreen
    titleEmbrace

    • Include ability to take action on types of notifications, e.g.

      • Campaign related notification can be clicked to go to that campaign

      • Report download ready notifiction can be clicked to take you to report download page

    • How to handle mark as read or unread? Options:

      • Clicking on notification marks as read (but can be marked as read via global ‘mark as read’ button)

      • Dedicated button to mark individual items as read (allows more control)

        • Either dot indicator or words that say ‘mark as read’ that toggles to ‘mark as unread’ when clicked

    • Do we allow control to not show notifications of a particular type?

      • V2

    • Allow a filter to show just ‘unread’ notifications

    Status
    colourRed
    titleReject

    • Do we allow deleting/hiding of notification items? Or keep all notification items permanently there and therefore can only be organised by read and unread

      • Just marking as read and unread (for v1 for now)

    • Do we have sections for when notifications came in, e.g. section for todays notifications, for yesterday, for last week, etc.

    Status
    colourBlue
    titleTO DISCUSS

    Additional Settings

    Marketo

    • Filter for type of notification

    • Subscribe action allows setup of notification emails

    Hubspot

    • Filter for type of notification

    • Dedicated settings page (https://app.hubspot.com/notification-preferences/4975419/desktop)

      • Can turn on/off all bell notifications

      • Can turn on/off all popover notification

      • Can turn on/off all browser push notifications

      • Play browser sound when new notification comes in

      • Depending on notification type, decide if it comes in via bell/popover/browser notification

    Facebook

    • Dedicated settings page

      • Can select which types of notifications come through

    LinkedIn

    • Dedicated settings page

      • Can toggle on/off different types of notifications

    Twitter

    • Can turn on/off all browser/sms/email notifications

    Jira

    • Mark all as read option

    • No dedicated settings page

    • Tabs for different notification priority (direct/watching)

    Trello

    • Filter by unread notifications

    • Mark all as read button

    • Change email frequency

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    Status
    colourGreen
    titleEmbrace

    • ‘Mark all as read' action

      • Include this action as it allows quick management of new notifications

    Status
    colourRed
    titleReject

    • ‘View all notifications’ action

      • Do we have this dedicated page to show a history of all notifications?

      • This page can inclue a search to help find history of notifications

      • Can allow subscribing to different notification types/hiding notifications

        • V2 probably

    • Depending on level of feature scope, a ‘subscribe’ service to send equivalent notification via email could be a great addition

      • But will then need a management area for this

        • Probably not, as notification center will try and reduce the amount of emails that we’re current;y sending

    Status
    colourBlue
    titleTO DISCUSS

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    Proposal Feedback:

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    colourGreen
    titleDone

    Status
    colourRed
    titleRejected

    Status
    colourYellow
    titleneed more info

    Status
    colourBlue
    titleTO DISCUSS

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    Retrospective:

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    To be completed after this features release. The retrospective should allow a basis for further improvements to this feature.

    User Feedback

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    Status
    titleHYPOTHESES

    • Lorum ipsum

    Status
    titleREASONING

    • Lorum ipsum