Come work in Amazon, they said.

Make users experience better, they said.

Give our customers a delightful experience, they said.

"A jury will look at whether Amazon tricked customers into joining Prime — and made it hard to leave."

https://apnews.com/article/amazon-prime-ftc-bezos-online-shopping-6bf17b6ce0795e99bdcee911105199d5

#uxdesign #deceptivepatterns #MakeTheWorldABetterPlaceYeahRight

Reacted like someone with zero critical faculty, #GitHub 👏🏻

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #noAI #genAI #generativeAI #promptEngineering #vibeCoding #LLM #ChatBots #aiChatBot #enshittification #ensh11n #gaslighting #DeceptivePatterns #darkPatterns #automaticOptIn #trainingLLMsIsTheft #HumansBeforeProfit #corporateGreed #predatoryCapitalism #chokepointCapitalism #intellectualProperty

New paper, open access.

‘If Deceptive Patterns are the problem, are Fair Patterns the solution?’

By Tim de Jonge, Hanna Schraffenberger, Jorrit Geels, Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Marie-Sophie Simon & me.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3715275.3732199

#law #tech #design #darkpatterns #facct #deceptivepatterns #manipulation #privacy

While I appreciate the motivational data visualisation JustGiving, the implied sum in this visualisation is driving me wild!

While I'm here, if folks on @Mastodon can chip in a few [insert currency here] to help me reach my goal in aid of, the wonderful, Fabrica art gallery (who do tonnes of great work in the Brighton community) that would be brill!

My fundraising page:
www.justgiving.com/page/fi-fabrica

#DeceptivePatterns #BadDataVizForGood? #DataViz #UX #ContentDesign

I found some really nice online Workshops at Domestika, but I totaly dislike their use of deceptive patterns such as fake fomo countdowns.

They propably think potential customers dont notice the manipulation - I think they do and like me they dont like it. Will not buy a course for now.

#fomo #DeceptivePatterns #domestika #Onlineworkshop

"Many types of deceptive pattern are already illegal in the EU and US, depending on the type and context of use ... Businesses that use deceptive patterns are often caught up in legal cases and get hit with big fines and penalties ... We've collected over 400 examples in our hall of shame. The most commonly complained about companies are Google, Facebook, Amazon and LinkedIn."

https://www.deceptive.design/

#DeceptivePatterns #DarkPatterns #DataFarming

I am disappointed with the #DeceptivePatterns which subscription based businesses often use. Just got off the phone with #VirginMobile where I cancelled my Internet in May. Least I thought I did...

Forcing users to start or cancel contracts over the phone puts all the power with the vendor. I have no record of what they do, or what records they keep (or fail to).

Without a clear paper trail, I cannot track the wasted hours spent trying to cancel a service I no longer am using.