🔗 Update announcements are most likely to appear at the least convenient time.

How effective was that treatment, I don’t know. (It definitely felt more thought through than the trash where the skeuomorphism undermined the function itself.) But it is all interesting to me in the larger context of the tensions underlying updates: It’s in a company’s best interest for every user to be on the latest version, since that saves on support headaches. A company needs to believe the newest version is the best ever – even if it’s not – similarly as our brains need to believe we are generally right most of the time, just so we can function. That’s why I always appreciate the improvements that prioritize the user experience over the company’s. Source: “Update announcements are most likely to appear at the least convenient time.” I think there are other hidden benefits to this too: It built a habit that a restart is all it needed to be on the latest, most secure version and it made the “restart” as simple as - top right -> click It built a habit for the user to check that…