I happened to click a link that took me to the associated twitter X account for something I was interested in and was greeted by not one, not two, but four modern day web popups.

I know it’s nothing new. I’ve got a couple of firefox plugins that are usually quite good at hiding this sort of nonsense, but I guess they failed me today (or, I shudder to think, there were even more that were blocked, and this is what got through)

What’s the worst new/not-signed-in user experience you’ve encountered recently?

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    46·
    3 months ago

    Another term I seen in the context of healthcare is alert fatigue:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_fatigue

    Alarm fatigue or alert fatigue describes how busy workers (in the case of health care, clinicians) become desensitized to safety alerts, and as a result ignore or fail to respond appropriately to such warnings.[1] Alarm fatigue occurs in many fields, including construction[2] and mining[3] (where vehicle back-up alarms sound so frequently that they often become senseless background noise), healthcare[4] (where electronic monitors tracking clinical information such as vital signs and blood glucose sound alarms so frequently, and often for such minor reasons, that they lose the urgency and attention-grabbing power which they are intended to have), and the nuclear power field. Like crying wolf, such false alarms rob the critical alarms of the importance they deserve. Alarm management and policy are critical to prevent alarm fatigue.

    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
      38·
      3 months ago

      Automation engineer here: alarm management is a hugely important part of making a plant operable.

      It is also a project that is never done, you must always review alarms that come in and see if they are providing useful information and what the operators are supposed to do with said information.

      If the operators are not supposed to do anything with the information, then what is the point of having the alarm?

      • oldfart@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Same when setting up Nagios, after a time you learn fewer alerts is better