Last December, in a blog post on Chinese app trends, designer and engineer Dan Grover announced the emergence of "chat as a universal UI ... app sends an automatic notification upon your ride's ...

Among the changes to the streamlined UI is the ability to jump between Workplace’s Notifications, groups and Workplace Chat features ... include a simplified design, with a single People tab ...

But why add chat to an app that is otherwise ... its immediacy but the way the Hooks UI surfaces how many other people have just received the same notification and are therefore also candidates ...

All types of alerts can be presented as a bubble, including System UI recording controls, screenshot preview notifications, and much more. Like with other chat heads, you can drag individual ones ...