We have an unofficial policy in my company that all pertinent information should be in the first message specifically to avoid the scenario you mention. Highly recommended.
That's grand and I'm envious. I guess what I'm suggesting is that if UX were grounded in HCI in any way, this would be the _primary_ problem to be addressed and is the issue which thereby outs UX as an over-priced modern-day hardware store color palette for the blind (primarily preoccupied only with forestalling law-suites).
I guess my question, really, is what affordance could be surfaced to suggest this communication medium is asynchronous and discourage this imposing behavior? Or, while the more socialized effete users know this is a problem and are properly socialized and are more concerned with problems on the frontier, I'm suggesting that there are major problems in the hinterland that have simply been ignored.
> what affordance could be surfaced to suggest this communication medium is asynchronous and discourage this imposing behavior?
I was employed through the transformation of pre->post changes, It took about 6 months of consistent reminders on all communication mediums, it even become memeish at one point.
>I'm suggesting that there are major problems in the hinterland that have simply been ignored.
I strongly agree with this, the lack of 'deep work' that instant communication mediums have created has destroyed so much innovation, possibility and profit through its creation.
Ginsberg was a genius, but things have changed.
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the waking hours looking for slack notifications, burning for the modern digital connection to the dopamine laced cloud.”
