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Those flowcharts and color coding are amazing. Everyone: even if you skim the rest of the article (mind, it's ALL worth reading), scroll to the last few pages
by heavenlyhash 8y ago
Those flowcharts and color coding are amazing.
Everyone: even if you skim the rest of the article (mind, it's ALL worth reading), scroll to the last few pages and LOOK at those.
They're color-coded by ease of flow (and yes, a definition of that was selected and clearly explained).
I'm excited by this because I feel that often when we talk about Dark Patterns, conversations often devolve into a "both-sides"-ism pattern -- something which is as useless in UX discussion as it is in politics. These clear visualizations and starkly color-coded call-outs of flows that add extra work make it easy to compare flows, and point out ones which are obviously arcane.
- SpecialistEMT 8y agoIs there a tool for easilly making cool flowcharts like this?
- squaresmile 8y agoI'm pretty certain the whole report was created in MS Word and the flowchart used Word flowchart as well.
- hobs 8y agoYeah it looks like one of the default "Smart Art" sets.
- oligopoly 8y agoGood Manual for upcoming startups as well.
- reaperducer 8y agoYou're right -- the flowcharts are above par. But the very first chart in the PDF is troublesome because of negative language. For example, "No privacy intrusive default settings in popups." Does the X on Facebook mean "There are no privacy intrusive default settings in popups" or "There are privacy intrusive default settings in popups." Double negatives are difficult; especially for non-native English speakers. It's like when you see someone on HN write "it's not non-trivial." Just say if it's easy or hard. Don't bury yourself in confusing jargon.