Notification widget
A card in the corner with a title, a line of text and a button.
What it is for
Pointing at one thing inside a product. A feature that shipped, a setting worth changing, a limit somebody is close to. It floats in a corner rather than interrupting, so it can wait for a good moment instead of taking one.
When to show it
After a delay, part-way down a scroll, or bound to a click on a button you already have. The last of those is the most useful and the least known: give the widget a CSS selector and it opens when somebody presses your own link, which makes it a panel you did not have to build.
When not to use one
On a marketing page. A card in the corner of a landing page reads as an advert and gets closed on sight, whatever it says — the visitor has decided before they have read it. If the message is for everybody who arrives, an announcement bar is the shape people accept from a site they do not know yet.
Questions
- Can I open it from a button on my own site?
- Yes. Give the trigger a CSS selector and the widget binds to whatever it matches on your page — a link, a button, anything already there.
- Where on the page does it sit?
- Any of the four corners, with an offset you choose. It stays where it is as the page scrolls.
- How often will one person see it?
- Whichever you pick: every time, once per session, once ever, or until they dismiss it. The count is kept in their browser rather than against a record of them.