immersion-distraction-cost

What problem does it solve?

It helps you recognize how seemingly small notification and modal interruptions can fragment attention, damage flow, and create long-term user mistrust.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Interruption cost framing: Quantifies why recovery time and psychological strain matter more than the interruption duration.
• Necessity categorization: Separates critical, important, useful, and engagement-driven interruptions to decide when to interrupt.
• Immersion-first design moves: Recommends batching, quiet hours/focus modes, conservative defaults, ambient indicators, and deference between sessions.
• Audit and decision support: Guides teams to choose deliberately even when short-term engagement metrics may drop.

Quick Start

Use this skill when reviewing or designing notification and modal behavior to ensure interruptions are genuinely urgent, minimized, and deferred or batched when not.