I hope I’m not alone on this one, but when I open my notifications panel:
I like to have it “clean” without any highlighted notifications, and being able to dismiss certain notifications right away.
When it comes to replies and all that, I will obviously click the notification so I can read it, reply, etc, and that will not be highlighted when I open the panel again, but when it comes to Likes, for example, I don’t want to have to click it in order to dismiss it. At the same time, I don’t like to ignore it, because seeing an highlighted (unread) notification, messes with my brain (I truly hope others feel the same way…)
My suggestion is that each notification could be dismissed manually from that panel with a simple button. A simple Dismiss underneath, maybe? Or a simple check icon in the corner? Something.
Another thing that always “bugs” me is the button at the bottom. Why an arrow, if an arrow suggests “expand”? When we click, we are not expanding what we are already seeing, we are opening a new window. Yes, we end up with more notifications to see, but that’s not really “expanding”. I think a simple and straight to the point View All (or Show All) would make more sense.
In the Notifications panel, I think that the Dismiss All button should always dismiss all notifications related to the selected tab. In this case it would dismiss all notifications visible in the All tab:
In this case it would dismiss all notifications in the Likes tab, but if I still have unread Replies, for example, those should stay unread:
