Keep It Simple — Please
Keep it simple or even better, keep it easy to use. When your mission is to send, receive or act upon a critical alert message, the more simplicity built into the transmitting or receiving media, the better. In these situations, time is critical and you don’t want to waste time figuring out how to use your critical alerting medium. That is why a response paging system is the best medium for critical alert messaging. These systems are designed to be simple and easy-to-use for the end users. You simply need to push a button or two to receive or send your critical alert messages and the system’s menu appears with the click of a single button. Even though smart phones are very prevalent, they are actually very complex devices with many extraneous features that can cause distractions from the mission of critical alert messaging. Also, the apps designed for sending and receiving critical alert messages are often difficult to learn and use. Almost every environment where critical alert messaging must be employed is a busy environment — and the communication medium that best serves these time-critical situations is a simple, easy-to-use response paging system.