Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
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Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
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Re: Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
#2Hi, I'm the guy who started darkpatterns.org. It's nice to see it popping up on HN every now and then. We're actually looking for contributors to help edit and update the content. If anyone is interested, drop us a line (contact details on the site). It's intended to be a community project and we'd love to see a lot more faces and names on the about page.
Re: Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
#3Hi, I'm the guy who started darkpatterns.org. It's nice to see it popping up on HN every now and then. We're actually looking for contributors to help edit and update the content. If anyone is interested, drop us a line (contact details on the site). It's intended to be a community project and we'd love to see a lot more faces and names on the about page.
Do you have an entry for airlines that will subtly change the month on the return calendar so you end up having to pay for a rebooking?
Re: Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
#4Hi, I'm the guy who started darkpatterns.org. It's nice to see it popping up on HN every now and then. We're actually looking for contributors to help edit and update the content. If anyone is interested, drop us a line (contact details on the site). It's intended to be a community project and we'd love to see a lot more faces and names on the about page.
See also Harry's post yesterday on The Verge,
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/29/4640308/dark-patterns-insi...
which is a nice introduction to Dark Patterns.
And apparently the darkpatterns.org site has been posted to HN previously:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5347543
The URLs lexically match exactly, so I'm not sure why dupe detection failed here.
Re: Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
#5Hi, I'm the guy who started darkpatterns.org. It's nice to see it popping up on HN every now and then. We're actually looking for contributors to help edit and update the content. If anyone is interested, drop us a line (contact details on the site). It's intended to be a community project and we'd love to see a lot more faces and names on the about page.
I saw this and thought "Ryanair and the No Insurance option" - glad to see it in there as it is amazing that a company could do that...
Re: Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
#6Hi, I'm the guy who started darkpatterns.org. It's nice to see it popping up on HN every now and then. We're actually looking for contributors to help edit and update the content. If anyone is interested, drop us a line (contact details on the site). It's intended to be a community project and we'd love to see a lot more faces and names on the about page.
does this A/B testing border on a dark pattern? http://teslachat.tumblr.com/post/59767541777/we-hid-the-demo...
Re: Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
#7Hi, I'm the guy who started darkpatterns.org. It's nice to see it popping up on HN every now and then. We're actually looking for contributors to help edit and update the content. If anyone is interested, drop us a line (contact details on the site). It's intended to be a community project and we'd love to see a lot more faces and names on the about page.
I have often wondered about this but never knew this was so universal. The Ryanair example is unforgettable. For someone taking first steps in to UI design, this came at a great time for me.
Re: Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
#8Hi, I'm the guy who started darkpatterns.org. It's nice to see it popping up on HN every now and then. We're actually looking for contributors to help edit and update the content. If anyone is interested, drop us a line (contact details on the site). It's intended to be a community project and we'd love to see a lot more faces and names on the about page.
This might be relevant:
Dark UX: The Elements of The Video Gambling Experience
http://uxmag.com/articles/dark-ux-the-elements-of-the-video-...
>Behind the scenes, however, they engage in all kinds of “optimizations” that encourage gamblers to spend and play more without stopping or burning out.
>How do I know this? I have something to confess.
Re: Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
#9Hi, I'm the guy who started darkpatterns.org. It's nice to see it popping up on HN every now and then. We're actually looking for contributors to help edit and update the content. If anyone is interested, drop us a line (contact details on the site). It's intended to be a community project and we'd love to see a lot more faces and names on the about page.
does this A/B testing border on a dark pattern? http://teslachat.tumblr.com/post/59767541777/we-hid-the-demo...
i don't think so, there's no real malicious intent there. perhaps you should consider why you don't get more signups after a demo instead, i would expect more. maybe it's a good thing to get less signups with the demo button where it was, because signups that don't actually use the service are basically the same as a demo anyway.
Re: Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
#10A possible example of this is how the 'Clear Browsing Data' button in chrome for android has been moved to an inconspicious location away from the other settings, if you have an android device i invite you to see how easily you can find it without looking it up.