Some resources on Dark Patterns
Academic work
- Dark Patterns website
- Dark Patterns twitter account
- Gray et al. The Dark (Patterns) Side of UX Design
- Norwegian Consumer Council report on dark patterns: Deceived by design
- EFF Designing Welcome Mats to Invite User Privacy
- Design at CNIL; their report (both in French so far).
- Dark Patterns in Accessibility Tech, by Chancey Fleet
- Your Undivided Attention Podcast by the Center for Humane Technology.
- Princeton Dark Patterns site
- Arunesh Mathur, Gunes Acar, Michael Friedman, Elena Lucherini, Jonathan Mayer, Marshini Chetty, and Arvind Narayanan: Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites
- Woodrow Harzog, Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies, Harvard University Press (April 9, 2018).
- Carol Moser, Sarita Y. Schoenebeck, Paul Resnick Impulse Buying: Design Practices and Consumer Needs, CHI 2019, May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland UK.
- Jamie Luguri, Lior Strahilevitz Shining a Light on Dark Patterns
Some recent newspaper articles on the subject
- How E-Commerce Sites Manipulate You Into Buying Things You May Not Want
- Funny example
- Instacart Hounds Workers to Take Jobs That Aren’t Worth It
Related events
- Legal Design Roundtable “Dark patterns in Data Protection: Law, Nudging, Design and the Role of Technology”