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Notifications Table of Contents Notifications are an important method of communicating with users and providing feedback. Their main aim should be to help users perform a task and not necessarily interfere or get in the way of users while using your product. Ensure your notifications are relevant, timely, and informative. Keep in Mind: Highly frequented or disruptive Notifications can have a negative impact on the user's experience. When to use In order to find the right notification type for your use case, we have defined some decision-making rules for you: Go to the Decision Tree Types/Behavior ComponentsPlacementFollow-up ActionHideCriticalityStatesForm elements (Inline Validation)Below form elementYesResolvedLowSuccess, ErrorToastBottom, LeftNoAutomatically (6s)Low/MediumNeutral, SuccessInline NotificationBefore/After ContentYesResolved/DismissMediumNeutral, Success, Warning, ErrorBannerTop, CenterYesResolved/DismissMedium/HighNeutral, Warning, ErrorModalCenterYesResolved/DismissHighNeutral, Warning, Error Layer order Important: All elements are rendered on the browsers #top-layer so a manual ordering of z-index will have no effect, instead the browser renders the element on top of everything which was triggered to be shown last, meet the top layer: a solution to z-index:10000. ComponentOrderToast#top-layerModal#top-layerFlyout#top-layerPopover#top-layerBanner#top-layer References Kim Flaherty, Indicators, Validations, and Notificationss (Nielsen Norman Group, 2015) Aurora Harley, Visibility of System Status (Nielsen Norman Group, 2018) Jakob Nielsen, 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design (Nielsen Norman Group, 1994) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Global settingsThemeChanges the theme of the application and any Porsche Design System component. It's possible to choose between forced theme light and dark. It's also possible to use auto, which applies light or dark theme depending on the operating system settings automatically.LightDarkAuto (sync with operating system)DirectionChanges the direction of HTML elements, mostly used on<html> tag to support languages which are read from right to left like e.g. Arabic.LTR (left-to-right)RTL (right-to-left)AutoText ZoomChanges the text size and values with unit rem or em relatively. This setting can be defined in browser settings for any website or by an application itself on<html> tag. To achieve WCAG 2.2 AA compliance it's obligatory to support text zoom up to at least 200%.100%130%150%200%