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Haha, fair point! I'm the droning Englishman giving the presentation. If you'd rather read than listen, check out the http://darkpatterns.org http://darkpattern
by harrybr 16y ago
Haha, fair point! I'm the droning Englishman giving the presentation. If you'd rather read than listen, check out the http://darkpatterns.org http://darkpatterns.org - it's a public wiki that I curate. Here's the definition of Dark Patterns from the site:
"Dark Patterns are User Interfaces that are designed to trick people. Normally when you think of bad design', you think of laziness or mistakes. These are known as design anti-patterns. Dark Patterns are different – they are not mistakes, they are carefully crafted with a solid understanding of human psychology, and they do not have the user’s interests in mind."
- hugh3 16y agoAh, thanks for the explanation. (And I apologise for the "droning" remark, I actually only listened to the first half sentence of what you had to say -- I wasn't expecting to hear a voice when I clicked on the "next slide" button -- so I'm not qualified to judge your speaking voice...)
- steveklabnik 16y agoHey Harry- Just a quick note for your wiki, since I don't want to make Yet Another Account... on the Misdirection page: http://wiki.darkpatterns.org/Misdirection http://wiki.darkpatterns.org/Misdirection You mention ExpertsExchange has now hidden their information, and give this page as an example: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Applications/MS_Office/Excel/Q_20805544.html http://www.experts-exchange.com/Applications/MS_Office/Excel... But check this out: plug the URL into Google: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=636&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.experts-exchange.com%2FApplications%2FMS_Office%2FExcel%2FQ_20805544.html&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&... Click "cached": http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WHOsXsXzwjkJ:www.experts-exchange.com/Applications/MS_Office/Excel/Q_20805544.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WHOsXsX... And then scroooooooooll again like before. There's the answers! They don't want to lose the Google juice, so they change the contents of the page so that Google sees it all, and regular people don't. You can also change your UA string to "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html http://www.google.com/bot.html) and it works...