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Screenshots of manipulative interfaces caught in the wild, named and dissected. Grimly entertaining reading.
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Dark Patterns Hall of Shame sits in UI & UX Libraries under Make, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Pattern libraries, dark-pattern catalogues, component galleries and laws-of-UX summaries. The bookmarks that actually get reopened.
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Yes. Dark Patterns Hall of Shame works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
Harry Brignull's catalogue of interfaces built to trick people, complete with a hall of shame and the resulting case law.
Curated wall of the best-designed sites on the internet, filterable by type and updated relentlessly.
Comic-strip teardowns of real product decisions, each one explaining the psychology behind why it did or did not work.
Thousands of landing pages sorted by industry and style, which makes it the reference for anyone writing one.
Field reports and photographs of American shopping centres in decline, written by people who cared about this long before it was an aesthetic.
Google's hallucinating network turned into a service, still perfectly capable of putting dog faces into absolutely everything.
Photographs of the city's abandoned schools and factories, paired with the records of the people who taught and worked in them.
Thousands of strangers claim to have dreamt the same face. Read the whole thing: the explanation is better than the hoax.
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