This mockup is inspired by the Windows Taskbar and MSN Alerts notification methods and a Mail plug-in I recently installed, MailAppetizer.
Mac OS X Notifications (456K PDF)
If you are a Mail user, I recommend the following plug-ins in addition to MailAppetizer:
Posted by Membranophonist at March 30, 2004 11:34 PM | TrackBackThis app-centric notification approach is a nice-baby step, but concept-centric notifications are the real goal. How about a mockup based that builds off of this,
http://www.usercreations.com/weblog/2003/12/12.html#a384
but, without the strong spatial orientation.
Black just isn't an acceptable background color for personal computer UI elements.
For mockups, use a solid background and hide all desktop icons. (You're using Path Finder, right?)
Posted by: Robb Beal at March 31, 2004 09:22 AMIncidentally, I began thinking about a more person-centered notification method after I posted this entry. I like your mockup and understand the value in approaching it more from that perspective.
I considered clearing my desktop, but I wanted to see how they would look on a real desktop. With that said, I can understand doing so to bring the mockup into sharper focus.
Thanks for the feedback, Robb!
Posted by: Daniel J. Wilson at March 31, 2004 10:28 AMI installed Mail.appetizer after reading your post. I'm not convinced of its use yet (though it allowed me to see that you posted a comment on metacosm ^_^). The problem I have with it is the same I have with Mail. Emails I receive are sorted by rules into specific folders and Mail or Mail.appetizer only display what's at the top level: either way, I am not notified of emails that have been sorted.
A way to bind notification to rules would be very useful. Particularly, being able to say that I only want to be notified about emails that pass a given rule would make my day. My more important emails are sorted so I am never notified of them. However, theses are the emails about which I NEED to be notified so it's kind of frustrating...