Desperation Notifications

Social media platforms are leaning into deceptive design patterns to capture your attention but they’re just contributing to our growing “notification anxiety”

MidJourney prompt for “an overwhelmed looking person being surrounded by a cloud of social media notifications, alerts, style of Russian propaganda poster”

They’re on the rise. They strike at you from a new angle every day now. Enticing you. Striving to pull you onto platforms you’re now trying to avoid…