dark pattern Concepts

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

by Nir Eyal · 26 Dec 2013 · 199pp · 43,653 words

growth spread because it was both viral and useful. Unfortunately, some companies utilize viral loops and relationship triggers in unethical ways: by deploying so-called dark patterns. When designers intentionally trick users into inviting friends or blasting a message to their social networks, they may see some initial growth, but it comes

Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

by Jennifer Pahlka · 12 Jun 2023 · 288pp · 96,204 words

revolution has had on our society. The commercial world has put many of the practices of digital delivery teams to use in the service of “dark patterns”—means to understand and serve users that result in products that deceive and entrap us. In many ways, the digital revolution has fed our worst

The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians

by Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar · 14 Oct 2024 · 175pp · 46,192 words

non-disparagement clauses should similarly be investigated. Protecting Consumers In the fall of 2023, Ontario updated its Consumer Protection Act with amendments focussing on prohibiting dark patterns such as subscription traps and auto renewals. A subscription trap is a tactic that involves offering a free or low-cost trial of a product

Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again

by Brittany Kaiser · 21 Oct 2019 · 391pp · 123,597 words

’s DETOUR Act and associated bills that aim to regulate big tech by providing transparency into the value of consumers’ data, and to block manipulative “dark patterns” in the use of algorithms. The state of Wyoming’s Digital Asset Legislation, which includes thirteen new laws already passed, and has many more in

Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success

by Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown · 24 Apr 2017 · 344pp · 96,020 words

appreciate how enraging this can be. User experience experts call tricks to get users to take an action they normally would not take dark patterns, and while some of these dark patterns may work in the short term, the backlash from users is a long-term drag on growth. The negative press and bad

Moon Rush: The New Space Race

by Leonard David · 6 May 2019

in question. Observations of these strange features from Earth and via Moon orbiters have led to theories about how lunar swirls form. The bright and dark patterns may result when those magnetic fields deflect particles from the solar wind and cause some parts of the lunar surface to weather more slowly. Or

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micrometeorite impacts loft fine lunar dust particles, an existing magnetic field at those locations sorts them according to their susceptibility to magnetism, forming light and dark patterns with different compositions. A joint study on lunar swirls was issued in July 2018, led by researchers at Rutgers University and the University of California

American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

by Nancy Jo Sales · 23 Feb 2016 · 487pp · 147,238 words

was a slender girl with shiny, shoulder-length dark hair and pale blue eyes. She wore short black shorts, a black crop top, and a dark, patterned kimono, like butterfly wings. Her nails were long and cobalt blue. She had creamy white skin (“Here’s How to Get Flawless Skin Like Amanda

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel

by Gail Honeyman · 8 May 2017 · 335pp · 100,331 words

, soft and dense as fur. Across and over the expanse of night, into the velvet depths of it, light was scattered, enough for a thousand darknesses. Patterns revealed themselves; the eye, exquisitely dazzled, sought out snail-shell whorls and shattered pearls, gods and beasts and planets. As we stood still, yet we

A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back

by Bruce Schneier · 7 Feb 2023 · 306pp · 82,909 words

stating that the donation could be used for the candidate’s personal expenses, and the like. These are clearly hacks: they’re examples of a “dark pattern” that we’ll talk about later. But are they hacks of our perceptual, emotional, or executive decision-making systems? The answer is, kind of all

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decoy item, one even more luxurious and expensive, you’re more likely to choose the middle option. Online, persuasion is often accomplished by means of “dark patterns.” Much user interface design consists of norms and metaphors that we humans use to make sense of what computers do under the hood. The metaphors

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against them by prosecutors. But they’re close enough for most purposes. And the norms are taken from the real world as much as possible. “Dark patterns” is a term given to subversive user-design tricks that co-opt common designs to nudge users towards certain ends. Normally, standardized design guides us

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, green means go, and red means stop. Those same colors are similarly used as guides in user experience design all the time. They become a dark pattern when a series of green “continue” buttons is suddenly subverted to sell an in-app purchase, as in the mobile game “Two Dots.” Or when

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clicking on the ad as they try to swipe away the dirty spot. In 2019, US senators Mark Warner and Deb Fischer introduced legislation banning dark patterns. It didn’t pass. But if a future version does, the sponsors had better get their definition right, because that definition itself will be subject

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to all sorts of hacks, as programmers and apps that use dark patterns to hack us try to get around the rules. 46 Trust and Authority On March 19, 2016, John Podesta, then chair of Senator Hillary Clinton

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–43 context, 157–60, 237 corporate personhood, 141 COVID-19 pandemic, 27, 45, 110–11, 196 creative hackers, 22 credit cards, 39 customer reviews, 194 dark patterns, 182, 189–90 Darling, Kate, 222 DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge, 228–29 de minimis rule, 249 debt financing, 101–2 decoy prices, 189 deep-fake

Vassal State

by Angus Hanton · 25 Mar 2024 · 277pp · 81,718 words

used to create this deluge of cash have been ‘manipulative’ and ‘coercive’. The US regulator accused Amazon of using deceptive user-interface designs, known as ‘dark patterns’, to trick consumers into automatic renewal of their subscriptions.22 According to a complaint filed by the FTC in 2023, Prime consumers have had to

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/chatgpt-sets-record-fastest-growing-user-base-analyst-note-2023-02-01/. 30 For ‘privacy zuckering’, ‘roach motel’ and ‘confirmshaming’, see ‘Dark pattern’, Wikipedia [website], https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern. For WinRed, see ‘How Trump steered supporters into unwitting donations’, New York Times (7 August 2021), https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04