The use of dark patterns in UX/UI has become so prevalent that earlier this year, legislators in California and Colorado took action. Now, what has commonly been considered a design issue is a legal ...

India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, backed by stringent consumer-protection guidelines, is closing the chapter on manipulative UX design. The new regime effectively outlaws the dark ...

Dark patterns are deceptive techniques used by online platforms such as apps and websites to manipulate users’ behaviour ...

A class action lawsuit in courts now could cost Google billions. Its defense is that it’s just too hard to tell people how much data it’s collecting. The government’s lawsuit against Adobe shows ...

Twenty-six e-commerce companies have declared their platforms free of dark patterns after conducting self-audits, with the CCPA urging all digital businesses to adopt transparent, non-manipulative ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever had to call to cancel a subscription you signed up for online in seconds, uncheck a preselected agreement to receive ads in the mail or been tricked into upgrading to a premium economy ...

You may not be familiar with the term “dark patterns” but the manipulative design phenomenon is ubiquitous in the apps and services we use every day. Dark patterns nudge consumers to make choices that ...

The Web Foundation‘s Tech Policy Design Lab is working on an interesting-looking project to counter deceptive design — aka dark patterns* — with the goal of producing a portfolio of UX and UI ...