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by harrybr 5y ago
It's always interesting and a bit amusing to see HN folks inventing / discovering known ideas from design & HCI. What njms is advocating here is effectively User-Centred Design (aka "Human Centred Design"). It has an
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by harrybr 6y ago
Exactly. It’s amazing that this is not widely known. The deceptive GDPR pop-ups we all hate are not GDPR compliant!
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by harrybr 6y ago
The term “dark pattern” refers to user interface design patterns. That’s where the “pattern” bit comes from. There was already a term for anti-pattern which referred to mistakes. I wanted a term that had a Machiavellian tone to it, so I cho
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by harrybr 6y ago
Smart | https://smart.co | Multiple Roles | Multiple locations Transforming pensions, savings and financial wellbeing – around the world. We have various roles in Engineering, Design, IT and other teams. Locations include London
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by harrybr 6y ago
You are asking about user research. There is an entire industry of user researchers out there, and lots of great books and articles. It fascinates me that HN has such a blind spot for this topic. The responses on here are reasonable but a b
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by harrybr 7y ago
I'm the person who coined the term. I was interested in design patterns and pattern libraries. I noticed that we had design patterns (good things to learn from), anti-patterns (things worth avoiding) but there wasn't an equivalent
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Beyond onboarding: ramping up your users from novice to expert(medium.com)
1 points by harrybr 7y ago|0 comments
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by harrybr 8y ago
That’s how this sort of play works. It’s about capturing a percentage who don’t notice - plus those who do notice but see their time as too valuable to justify spending the time to request a refund. I believe It’s unlikely that anyone would
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by harrybr 8y ago
It's worth knowing that Airtable uses some nasty dark patterns. Airtable has a share button much like Google Docs. If you're on the free tier of Airtable, and you use the share button, you receive $ credits on your account when a
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by harrybr 9y ago
Just do usability testing with real target users. Expert evaluation does not reveal any surprises, so it’s limited in what it can do for you. An aside - I find it quite strange that HN has such a blind spot for user research. I’ve been in t
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Any recommendations for TVs as monitors?
6 points by harrybr 10y ago|4 comments
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Beyond onboarding: ramping up your users from novice to expert(medium.com)
2 points by harrybr 10y ago|0 comments
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by harrybr 10y ago
The author has the tone of a consultant but gives the scenario of "If I charge you $10,000 to build a web app". On a budget of 10k to design and implement an entire webapp there is no money spare for a consultant. Besides, anyone
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by harrybr 11y ago
So if it's basically just for Google owned sites then why are the rest of us meant to be interested in this?
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by harrybr 11y ago
Honest question: why would you want to use this? Material design is intended for Android native apps isn't it? It strikes me as a strange idea: - Material design uses lots of UI idioms that work well for an OS (user will learn them), b
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by harrybr 12y ago
This article doesn't argue that opt in / opt out has "intrinsic villainy or heroism". Other than that, you're absolutely right – it's all about the context in which the UI is applied.
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Using decision tables to support contextual targeting in your UI(90percentofeverything.com)
1 points by harrybr 12y ago|0 comments
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by harrybr 12y ago
This sounds like a tough situation. I wonder how well you'll fare if you're looking for capital now, when all you've got is an alpha product, no customers, no growth, no 'functioning business' to speak of. B2B SaaS
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by harrybr 12y ago
Hi Everyone, in response to the great reception her interview has received on HN, Heather has created a discount code for her ebook. Use the code 'hackernews' at the checkout to get 50% off. If you work on any ecommerce products b
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by harrybr 12y ago
It's an EU directive which has recently been enacted into law in the UK. Sorry, we should have made that clearer in the interview text.
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by harrybr 12y ago
Some of my bugbears in no particular order: "Locked Slingshot" in Facebook's slingshot app [1] is an interesting one. Not the worst dark pattern in the world, but quite manipulative nonetheless. Forced continuity services whe
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Dark patterns: what are most unethical UIs and growth hacks that you're aware of?
9 points by harrybr 12y ago|7 comments
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by harrybr 12y ago
Joel, this work appears to be heavily plagiarised in places. I've only had a quick browse, but it looks like you've cribbed content from UX textbooks and online sources. Some people would consider this unethical, particularly sinc
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Create your own Mac-based usability testing lab with viewing room(90percentofeverything.com)
2 points by harrybr 13y ago|0 comments
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by harrybr 13y ago
I couldn't disagree more. UI/UX design sits at the intersection of business objectives and user behaviour (i.e. what the business wants / what the users want). The idea of iterating your UI one month a year is borderline suic
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by harrybr 13y ago
Hi Josh, it's good of you to step up and have this discussion. It seems that justfab is using a Conversion Rate Optimisation trick that you're either not aware of or that you're deliberately downplaying. Put simply, the UI is
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by harrybr 13y ago
Hi, I'm the guy who started darkpatterns.org. It's nice to see it popping up on HN every now and then. We're actually looking for contributors to help edit and update the content. If anyone is interested, drop us a line (cont
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The drunkard’s search(90percentofeverything.com)
1 points by harrybr 13y ago|0 comments
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Combining Reflector and Silverback for iOS usability testing(90percentofeverything.com)
2 points by harrybr 14y ago|0 comments
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Brasília: an excerpt from Urbanized(90percentofeverything.com)
44 points by harrybr 14y ago|26 comments

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