Designer pitches concept for usable iOS notifications in video

It's beautiful and i love it. Apple, Hire this guy!

Brilliant concept, Andreas!

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Apple, if you're reading this, please give it some serious consideration!
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I turned off almost all notifications for the exact same reason given in this article: Sheer annoyance factor. A Notifications app like the one shown in the video would be a *fantastic* leap forward in making notifications more user-friendly and far more intuitive than they are now.

I'll just be happy to be rid of the blue modal pop-ups in any way, shape or form and a fix to make it so that app notifications don't take precedence over my texts and missed calls by blotting them out from my home screen. Anything else beyond that is gravy.
I remember proposing a similar solution to this many many months ago, but this guy worked quite hard to make it look pretty.
If Apple doesn't fix the notifications, this guy should find a coder or 2 who will make this happen for jailbroken phones.

Hey that looks like - well it looks like android. Sorry - I know that hurts.

looks a lot like the webos notifications

This is so awesome. I would be so happy if apple implemented something like this on iOS

Apple recently opened up the API for local notifications but unless said API is still that simple then a concept like this is possible. My only concern is if some developers alter the notification system that would make a Notification app too rigid to design for.

An app like this suggests that all notifications would HAVE TO work through this Apple app and ONLY this Apple app.

Then again, Apple has such a choke hold on the industry that they could dictate a universal notification system that requires all instances travel through their iAlerts (that's my pet name for it) application.

One of the best ideas I've seen yet. Although, I have to say that the whole idea of notifications feels like a defect. I don't have the answer, but the *correct* solution seems like it would eliminate them altogether.

My thought is similar to one of the other comments in that you double tap the home button but your latest notifications would be displayed above the app switcher. Its currently dead space anyway so why not put notifications there. I would prefer this to a dedicated notifications app, and it could have a lot of the same functionality.

I like Andreas' idea of the "slide to unlock" notifications on the lock screen and having notifications appear in the dock instead of as a pop up.

I honestly don't like it. I find it a bit too complicated for a task that is meant to be easy, quick and should stay out of your way.

You took something as simple as a red bubble with a number next to an app and turned it into a full-blown application with entire lists of things that need my attention and added another double-tap action (don't we have enough? the double-tap already serves 5 or 6 functionalities!). No thanks.

Don't take me the wrong way, that video looks like it took quite a bit of time and effort to produce, but I would really like to simplify notifications, not complicate them.

The one great idea that I agree with is the lockscreen part. Your idea there is brilliant and it's exactly what I'm personally hoping for. I would lose the "slide to view" part though and just keep a small 3-4 item list (scrollable of course) of the most recent notifications in the lockscreen.

Now, some of you will argue that you would be unable to view these notifications when you're actually using the phone. I would disagree. When you're using the phone you would still get the standard popup when a notification arrives and the red bubbles will still be next to the app icons. Is it really all that troublesome to lock/re-lock the phone to view all the notifications?

The iOS home screen is very simplistic but its filled with a lot of "hidden" functionality (with double-taps, horizontal sliding, spotlight, folders, etc).
Do you really want to make it even more complicated?