Windows 8: Notification overload
I aired this thought online this morning thinking it was innocent enough and that most people would agree with the fact that on Windows 8, it’s pretty hard to see notifications that have happened in the past.
I was wrong. It seems the common feeling of most out there right now is that ‘Live Tiles’ on Windows 8 are enough, and that they provide enough information at a glance to quickly be informed on what’s going on, but I disagree. They have a number of large flaws that are being overlooked.
Live tiles are a great system in many ways, and Windows Phone has been extremely effective at demonstrating this, but they have major issues with scaling, both in their sheer numbers and when a large number of notifications come in.
I found this particularly frustrating when Windows Phone first launched. I would often find that when a deluge of information is sent to the phone – such as a...