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Dark Patterns: User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
- jamesbritt 16y agoSee previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511201 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511201
- qeorge 16y agoAccompanying website: http://darkpatterns.org/ http://darkpatterns.org/
- sudonim 16y agoBeat me to it! There is also some decent coverage of Dark / Anti Patterns in the book "Designing Social Interfaces"
- minalecs 16y agoI wish they would of just linked to this site. as a side note, I hate slides because I have no idea of the slides context in the presentation. Usually during a presentation, a slide is only complementary to what the actual presenter is saying, so why present just the slides. Also google indexes slides so high in search. I've never found a any good content out of just slides.
- muhfuhkuh 16y agoI like how this talk on dark UI design is hosted on a site that tried to open a pop-under ad (kudos to Chrome for not allowing suchness).
- mynameishere 16y agoWell, browsers have prevented that for years. More to the point, whatever evils UI design is capable of are certainly being committed by that catastrophically disarrayed mess of a website. Maybe a few more irrelevant widgets, tactically-place banners, out-of-sync but identical flash movie ads, and thumbnail-jammed iframes would do the trick...?
- TamDenholm 16y agoThere's a lot of HN posts about A/B testing, I'd love to see someone test out these techniques and see just how much of a difference they make.
- andreyf 16y agoIs this ethical? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/404957/donorschoose.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/404957/donorschoose.png The opt-in is for an extra 15% of your donation to be "optionally" donated to the charity. Because it is "optional", this 15% doesn't count towards the official "% of donations used for operating expenses" metric used to gauge charities, of course.
- jacquesm 16y agoIt's going to get their merchant account blocked if and when it reaches the card companies. Such 'stuffing' of charges is a long time trick used to push the total charge volume so the chargebacks are reduced. Nobody is going to charge back $15 sent to charity. So 200 charges at 150, 2% chargeback rate, vs 400 charges, 200@135 and 200@15, 1% chargeback rate. Some billing companies that have since gone under used to do this with a 1$ charge added to every sale. This practice has been banned for years and I'm quite surprised to see it revive.
- syntheticzero 16y agoI had to read and re-read this post before I grasped what you're trying to say here. There is no "stuffing" of charges going on here, whatsoever. The donor's credit card is only charged once, for the entire amount of the donation, including optional operating expenses donation. If the donor donates to 10 proposals, it still results in only one credit card charge. It just seems bizarre to me that, simply by looking at a screen shot of our checkout cart, that you'd make some bizarre assumption that DonorsChoose is doing what you describe. Come on, at least do some research before posting things like this.
- jacquesm 16y agoOne charge with two beneficiaries?
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- kbatten 16y agoIs it ethical to link to facebook and require flash to show a few images?