On 16 February 2015 at 10:18, Bastien Nocera <[email protected]> wrote:
> About the? It's also very low for a number of people. I can also be > there to notify about the number of new podcasts episodes to read, the > number of unread articles in my offline reader app, the number of unread > messages in my chat application, > In all of these cases (email, podcasts, RSS reader, chat), I have used applications which internally show some kind of unread/unseen count, and in all four categories, the number quickly gets higher than I have any intention of doing anything about other than clicking 'Mark all read'. I have a suspicion that this is partly what 'killed' RSS (in popular use) - feed readers were designed as if people would read every item, and then it felt like a chore to keep up with it. I'm not saying there are no possible use cases for a numeric badge, but my experience is that most of the obvious use cases for it are not great UI design. Thomas
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