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A comment on Dark Patterns in UX.

Re:Dark Patterns in UX by sausla on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @10:12AM (#26874939)
The problem is that most of these patterns work. You can be irritated as a user, disgust as a designer, but decision makers are concerned that the number (MAU, ARR, MRR) must to go up, therefore dark patterns are popular. And I hate them with all my heart.
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Re:Dark Patterns in UX by Nextgrid on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @10:48AM (#26875435)
By the same logic, theft, fraud and other crime also works (in terms of delivering the expected outcome to the perpetrator) so does this mean we as a society should accept and condone this behavior?
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