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I’ve long felt that “dark pattern” isn’t the right term. It obscures the intent behind purposeful decisions made by real humans, by describing a malicious actio
by qkeast 2y ago
I’ve long felt that “dark pattern” isn’t the right term. It obscures the intent behind purposeful decisions made by real humans, by describing a malicious action as an abstract outcome.
The use of urgency here is absolutely a manipulative pattern designed to influence user behaviour for the benefit of the manipulator.
- randomcarbloke 2y agoI wish there was more formalism around the idea of "dark patterns" it strikes me as a term for mechanistic configurations that encourage or elicit specific behaviours yet in practice it's more like intentionally hostile design/ux.