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Is there a name for this pattern? Changing the user interface immediately before the user interacts with it? It's not normally a dark pattern like this but as f
by hallway_monitor 5y ago
Is there a name for this pattern? Changing the user interface immediately before the user interacts with it? It's not normally a dark pattern like this but as far as I know it's an unsolved problem. E.g. I go to click a button but 50 milliseconds before that the app has decided to change layouts and now I click a completely different button than I meant to.
- rhizome 5y agoBait and switch.
- robbie-c 5y agoMy first job was for a telecoms startup, this concept is called "glare" there. E.g. I go to touch the screen to make a call, but someone starts calling my while my finger is in motion so the UI changes and I press a button that I didn't mean to.
- withinboredom 5y agoThis is very much a solved problem (see: coyote time), and is solved (for free!!!) by OS’s and web browsers. When you implement your own controls and do stupid stuff with JavaScript, you end up with exactly as you say.