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Digital specimens, selection advice, relationships, and recipes are editorial work and have not been validated through user research.", "editorialStatus": "drafted", "specimenData": "fictional", "specimenNote": "Original fictional specimens. Definitions cite sources; usage advice and recipes are editorial.", "sources": [ { "id": "notifcenter-wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notification_Center", "title": "Wikipedia · Notification Center", "checkedAt": "2026-09-16", "archive": { "status": "available", "confirmed": true, "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260922115522/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notification_Center", "capturedAt": "2026-09-22T11:55:22Z", "lookupUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260916*/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notification_Center" } } ], "lists": [], "ordered": false, "listDisclaimer": "Seat numbers are editorial positions, not scores, rankings, or popularity measurements. A list that is not filled is left as it is." }, "entry": { "id": "notification-center", "type": "interaction", "name": { "zh": "通知中心", "en": "Notification Center" }, "aliases": [ "Notification Shade", "Notification Drawer", "通知栏", "消息中心" ], "granularity": "component", "intents": [ "inform", "reduce-interruption" ], "tags": [ "notifications", "aggregation", "history", "review", "grouping" ], "definition": "One place that gathers notifications already delivered, ordered by time or source, for the user to review, act on, or clear when it suits them: it is where notifications go, not where they happen.", "boundary": "A notification centre and the way notifications are presented are two different things: banners, sounds, and badges decide how loud something was at the time, while the centre decides whether it can still be found afterwards. A silenced notification should therefore still land in it — otherwise silencing equals discarding. It is not an inbox either: an inbox item is the content, while a notification is a pointer to content elsewhere, and clearing one must not delete what it points at. The test is a reviewable list of delivered notifications, not a drawer holding unread dots.", "signature": [ "Delivered notifications gather in one fixed place, ordered by time or source", "Each can be expanded and acted on, or cleared singly or all at once", "Clearing a notification does not delete what it points at" ], "when": [ "Notifications arrive when the user cannot look and need somewhere to be found later", "There are many sources and they need grouping by app or time to be readable", "The product offers a silencing mode and the held messages need somewhere to go" ], "when_not": [ "Silenced notifications never reach it and the user has no way to learn of them", "It is treated as a second inbox where clearing also deletes the original content", "The list stays full of marketing that never expires and what mattered is buried" ], "tradeoff": "Separating interruption from record lets notifications arrive quietly without being lost, at the cost of a list that swells: the more it holds, the more readily users clear it wholesale — and the one that mattered goes with the rest.", "comparison": { "focus": "Keeping delivered notifications findable and actionable afterwards", "mechanism": "A clearable list aggregated by time or source", "cost": "Once the list swells, users tend to clear it wholesale" }, "sources": [ { "id": "notifcenter-wikipedia", "title": "Wikipedia · Notification Center", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notification_Center", "claim": "The article records Notification Center as the feature that aggregates notifications on systems including iOS and macOS, and describes grouping by app, holding notifications from chosen apps and delivering them at a scheduled time as one summary, and muting the corresponding app for an hour or a day when a notification arrives. This entry paraphrases the aggregate-and-review mechanism from it; the trade-off judgements are editorial.", "checkedAt": "2026-09-16", "archive": { "lookupUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260916*/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notification_Center", "status": "available", "checkedAt": "2026-09-22T11:54:57.222Z", "jobId": "spn2-4bed19926bf301409ed91dda4b859a46f86a8c16", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260922115522/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notification_Center", "timestamp": "20260922115522" } } ], "relations": [ { "target": "do-not-disturb", "kind": "composes_with", "condition": "A Do Not Disturb mode has silenced some notifications", "reason": "The centre is where silenced messages go; together the two achieve not interrupting without losing anything.", "basis": "editorial" }, { "target": "status-message", "kind": "alternative", "condition": "Deciding whether a message belongs in place or in the notification centre", "reason": "A status message belongs to the current task and goes with it, while the centre carries what still needs seeing across tasks and time.", "basis": "editorial" }, { "target": "calm-technology", "kind": "composes_with", "condition": "The product wants information to stay available without competing for attention", "reason": "Separating delivery from interruption is exactly how status stays continuously available without continuously intruding.", "basis": "editorial" }, { "target": "nagging", "kind": "conflicts_when", "condition": "Marketing and rating requests are pushed into it continuously with no way to turn off that source", "reason": "Once the review list fills with low-value content, users ignore it wholesale and the notifications that mattered stop working too.", "basis": "editorial" } ], "rules": [ { "when": "A notification is silenced, deferred, or delivered in a group", "instruction": "Still place it in the centre with its original time, so the user can see afterwards everything that happened.", "strength": "must", "basis": "editorial" }, { "when": "A user clears one notification", "instruction": "Remove only the notice, never what it points at, and keep that content findable where it lives.", "strength": "must", "basis": "editorial" } ], "behavior": { "states": [ "empty", "unread", "reviewed" ], "a11y": [ "The list is a region with an accessible name and each item’s time and source are announced", "Clearing can be done from the keyboard without dropping focus to the top of the page" ], "motion": "The entrance animation for a new notification is optional and it simply appears under a reduced-motion preference" }, "demo": null, "version": "0.1.0", "editorialStatus": "drafted", "requirements": [], "demoCapabilities": [], "implementationNote": "This entry has no runnable specimen; the notification content in the illustration is fictional. Before shipping, confirm that silenced notifications really do reach the list and that clearing does not delete the underlying content.", "image": { "src": "/images/notification-center.webp", "alt": "A fictional phone sketch: a panel pulled down from the top of the screen holding notifications in three source groups, each with a small icon heading and two or three grey placeholder notification cards, and a clear-all control at the panel’s top right." }, "searchTerms": [ "通知", "汇总", "历史", "回看", "分组" ] } }