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Will Grant
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Will Grant

Will Grant is a British UI/UX expert and a digital product designer. He is a web technology entrepreneur with over 25 years' experience, leading teams (and products) at the intersection of technology and usability. After his Computer Science degree, Will trained with Jakob Nielsen and Bruce Tognazzini at the Nielsen Norman Group – the world leaders in usable design. Since then, Will has overseen the user experience and interaction design of several large-scale web sites and apps, reaching over a billion users in the process. Will is a "design purist" and obsessed with building beautiful, compelling, and familiar products that customers intuitively know how to use.
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Let Users Turn off Specific Notifications

Notifications, whether on desktop or, more commonly, mobile, are a great way to keep users informed of state changes while the app is closed or in the background.

It’s worth thinking through carefully how users can customize or disable certain types of notifications (or all of them). The events that each user considers important, or notification-worthy, will vary and may even change over time.

Let Users Turn off Specific Notifications

Figure 74.1: A notification

A user probably doesn’t want an audio notification every time someone likes their Instagram selfie. Perhaps they do want a notification of a direct message because they get them less frequently.

The user’s device or browser will allow them to disable notifications entirely for your app, which they will do if what they’re seeing isn’t fine-tuned enough.

It’s extra technical work to allow a user this kind of fine-grained control, but allowing them to set up notifications...

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Will Grant

Will Grant is a British UI/UX expert and a digital product designer. He is a web technology entrepreneur with over 25 years' experience, leading teams (and products) at the intersection of technology and usability. After his Computer Science degree, Will trained with Jakob Nielsen and Bruce Tognazzini at the Nielsen Norman Group – the world leaders in usable design. Since then, Will has overseen the user experience and interaction design of several large-scale web sites and apps, reaching over a billion users in the process. Will is a "design purist" and obsessed with building beautiful, compelling, and familiar products that customers intuitively know how to use.
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