New ask Hacker News story: When did “disturb” became the default mode?
When did “disturb” became the default mode?
3 by dgrcode | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Last night I was awaken by my Xiaomi Mi Band 5. A few days ago I took a nap and set the DND –do not disturb– on a timer for 1h. Once the timer finished it went by default to "Turn off DND", which is the same as "disturb me please". It's worth mentioning that before setting the DND for an hour, I had it one a schedule so it wouldn't disturb me from 10:30 pm to 8:30 am. It didn't go back to this one, it went to "disturb me please". It's probably also worth mentioning that there is another mode called "Auto turn on", which detects when you're sleeping to avoid awakening you. Because this thing knows when I'm sleeping. But someone decided that the default should be to awaken someone if they receive an email at 2am. So the thing that I bought precisely to improve my sleeping was designed to wake me up in the middle of the night. Because of this I was wondering when did the "disturb" mode became the default? This applies to my phone as well, which I always have with DND turned on. How is it that we have to _turn on_ DND. Shouldn't it be "turn on disturb mode"? What are the arguments that support this behaviour from a UX point of view? -end of rant
3 by dgrcode | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Last night I was awaken by my Xiaomi Mi Band 5. A few days ago I took a nap and set the DND –do not disturb– on a timer for 1h. Once the timer finished it went by default to "Turn off DND", which is the same as "disturb me please". It's worth mentioning that before setting the DND for an hour, I had it one a schedule so it wouldn't disturb me from 10:30 pm to 8:30 am. It didn't go back to this one, it went to "disturb me please". It's probably also worth mentioning that there is another mode called "Auto turn on", which detects when you're sleeping to avoid awakening you. Because this thing knows when I'm sleeping. But someone decided that the default should be to awaken someone if they receive an email at 2am. So the thing that I bought precisely to improve my sleeping was designed to wake me up in the middle of the night. Because of this I was wondering when did the "disturb" mode became the default? This applies to my phone as well, which I always have with DND turned on. How is it that we have to _turn on_ DND. Shouldn't it be "turn on disturb mode"? What are the arguments that support this behaviour from a UX point of view? -end of rant