[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTELHepmNSw]Dark Patterns: User Interfaces Designed to Trick People - YouTube[/ame]
Guide Book for Evil Designers
- Thread starter droplister
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You probably caught most of it. I'm surprised there was no mention of the FTC. I think this is probably just a marketing campaign. If they can brand themselves as white hats who offer ethical conversion rates and organic ORM.
He makes a comparison of a store manager putting things in a physical shopping cart while your back is turned.
His "worst offender" is RyanAir.com.
Then there's like a good 10mins of a sad QA where the people are like, "Yeah, but if it's profitable, why not do it?"
Someone in the audience mentions working for a client, and they named the client, that wanted to make it a 23-page process to get a refund.
I trolled him a bit on Twitter. I think he might just be re-uploading the video or protecting the guy who name dropped a client.
https://twitter.com/droplister/status/443123904325091328
Thought to help if possible...is this the video?
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj8J8f6LM8I]BrightonSEO Video: Dark Patterns in User Interface Design - YouTube[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj8J8f6LM8I]BrightonSEO Video: Dark Patterns in User Interface Design - YouTube[/ame]
Nah, that's not it, it was like 30 minutes long, but this might be a clip of it. I think for sure he took it down to protect his friend that ragged on a client.
