What you need to do is to imagine you are designing a hammer, not a honey trap. With a hammer, you are creating a tool that you will sell to people that they c

What you need to do is to imagine you are designing a hammer, not a honey trap. With a hammer, you are creating a tool that you will sell to people that they can use (or not) freely and they are in control of it. Design the handle so it doesn't splinter and the head so it doesn't fall off. Make a great product. The mind set is user-first. Or "Don't fuck the user" With the honey trap you are trying to attract pests and trick them to coming in thinking they'll get something special but really they just get stuck. The users are the victims of the trap and you are the trap owner. You are more interested in how to attract and leverage users than how to serve them. The mind set is, how do we leverage the user to make our business more valuable, or "How do we fuck the user?" Step 1: Sniff out all dark patterns and eliminate them. For example 1 month time limits on preference opt-outs e.g. "I am not interested in looking for a job". WTF?. It should be no time limit on that, and no follow up "are you sure" emails. Be a resource, not another 'shady recruiter'. My hammer doesn't yell at me that I haven done any DIY jobs lately.