Could a banking app, knowing users' patterns, emotions and fears, possibly push them to make the wrong choice to maximize the company’s profits? In an era in which apps have become the primary ...

Dark patterns, also known as deceptive design or deceptive patterns, are essentially tricks. Websites and apps use dark patterns to manipulate users into making decisions they wouldn’t have otherwise ...

Edd Coates is founder of Game UI Database. Game UI designers use references to iterate on existing design patterns and provide players familiar, intuitive experiences. This allows us to onboard them ...

The company has reached a settlement with the FTC to refund customers who signed up via 'challenged enrollment flows.' Here's what that means. Inside Amazon’s ‘Iliad Flow,’ the deceptive UX at the ...

Cookie banners with a "no reject" option. Free trial subscriptions that are absurdly difficult to cancel. Hidden refund options. Misleading email access requests. The list of dark patterns — deceptive ...

The Federal Trade Commission issued a detailed [staff report] on September 15 addressing Dark Patterns (or what some more descriptively call “manipulative design,” but Dark Patterns seems to be ...

In response to a rising number of complaints, the FTC announced it’s ramping up enforcement actions against “dark patterns” that websites and apps use to trick or trap consumers into subscription ...