Once I'm logged in, my eyes never stray from the top right corner to see notifications. It's quite compulsive :/
More generally, I love the simplicity but agree Steemit should be graphically sexed up a little bit and perhaps a bit more personalized, e.g. having favorite tags appear on top. I'd also like to see a mobile Steemit app that played on the Instagram model, but with the crypto thing. Imagine getting paid to be a narcissist.