A taxonomy for alerts and notifications
Is it an Alert, Toast, Callout, Popup, Snackbar, or Notification?
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5 min readMar 6, 2023
A while back, in the early days of our design system, we had a ticket for a component sitting in our backlog, with the title “Alert.” My initial reaction was “Oh yeah, a colored box with a little icon to the left of it and some text, easy.” Oh dear reader, how naive I was…