UX Food for the Soul: 1 | UX Podcast: Dark Patterns with Harry Brignull
UX Food for the Soul is a place for me to dump my thoughts on interesting articles and podcasts on all things design, creativity, and the world in general, so don’t expect the content to be structured nor long.
Harry starts by saying “On airline sights, you are looking to buy tickets but you end up buying insurance”, and the first thing that came to my mind is “I have”. Even though this is an old episode of the UX Podcast, it’s something that I found to be very interesting and worth listening. Dark Patterns have been around for ages and some of them as so brilliantly designed, unethical but brilliantly designed, the users don’t notice them at all.
Dark Patterns have been around for ages and for the longest time (when I was younger and just started using the internet) I didn’t know that Dark Patterns are wrong. I just thought that was the way it was, it might be a business trick.
I keep coming back to this podcast episode, it talks about different examples of dark patterns, ethical implications, what people can do, and a quick discussion on “light patterns”.
References (from UX Podcast):
- Dark Patterns: dirty tricks designers use to make people do stuff — Harry’s post where he coins the term
- Dark Patterns — collection of dark patterns curated by Harry
- 90 Percent of Everything — Harry’s blog
- Dark patterns are designed to trick you — Presentation by Harry with video
- When Websites Won’t Take No for an Answer — New York Times article
- Fast Path to Great UX — Increased Exposure Hours — Article by Jared Spool
