Notifications & Toasts: AI Skill for UX Design
Notifications & Toasts is an AI skill that matches every message to its real urgency: badge, banner, snackbar, toast, alert, or push. It keeps your notification system worth listening to.
npx skills add Uxcel-Lab/product-skills --skill ux-notifications-and-toasts
What this skill does
Helps an AI assistant match every notification to its real urgency, so the system stays worth listening to.
- Establishes urgency, the user's current moment, and the channel before picking a type.
- Matches badges, banners, snackbars, toasts, alerts, and push to real urgency.
- Sends one notification per event and groups related messages.
- Updates a badge or inserts content inline when the user is already in the app.
- Keeps copy short and scannable: about 39 characters of title, 150 of body.
- Adds mute and per-type controls so users tune instead of killing notifications.
- Flags engagement levers that border on dark patterns.
When to use it
Use it when you need an AI assistant to:
- design a notification strategy for an app;
- choose between a toast, banner, snackbar, or alert;
- review notifications that annoy users;
- plan a push opt-in flow;
- cut notification frequency without losing signal;
- add badges that behave;
- write shorter notification copy.
Decisions this skill helps you make
| Decision | Options |
|---|---|
| Push notifications | Time-sensitive, user-valued updates; never re-engagement nags or generic promos |
| Push opt-in ask | Primed, in-context request with stated value; not a raw dialog at first launch |
| Personalization | Name, past behavior, and preferences; nothing users didn't expect you to use |
| Rich media | Images when they inform, like a delivery photo; text-first otherwise |
| Location-based pings | High bar: explicit permission and obvious value |
| Timing | Users' active hours and time zone, with capped frequency |
| Badge counts vs. dots | Counts for countable unread items; dots for "something new" |
| Health metric | Opt-out and mute rates first, opens second |
How the skill works
1
Establish real urgency
The skill checks how urgent the message is, where the user is, and whose goal it serves.
2
Apply the core
It matches type to urgency, groups related messages, keeps copy short, and adds mute controls.
3
Surface engagement levers
It weighs push strategy, personalization, rich media, and timing, with the trust cost of each.
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