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Dark Patterns: User Interfaces Designed to Trick People

Normally when you think of "bad design", you think of laziness or mistakes. These are known as design anti-patterns. Dark Patterns are different – they are not mistakes, they are carefully crafted with a solid understanding of human psychology, and they do not have the user’s interests in mind.




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This site is no longer a wiki, due to vandalism. I'm still very keen to publish submissions: email your screen-grabs and walkthroughs to submissions@darkpatterns.org and I'll endevavor to get them online. Find out more here.

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