Dark Patterns

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  • 1

    Recorded for Awesomeness

    Underunderstood

    37:48 | Aug 6th, 2019

    2 recommendations

    Adrianne tries to order from a local sushi restaurant, but an unfamiliar voice answers, promising "awesomeness." Awesomeness for whom? Show notes: 2:16 - “GrubHub is buying up thousands of restauran...Show More

    mm recommended:

    Fabulous episode about dark patterns and how Grubhub is cheating mom and pop restaurants out of money by “guessing” phone orders and order sizes. Whoever was the product manager for this should be ash...Show More

  • 2

    #144 Dark Pattern

    Reply All

    36:58 | Jun 27th, 2019

    6 recommendations

    This week, we discover an invisible maze, designed to trick millions of people out of their money. Justin Elliot’s Twitter Pro Publica’s questionnaire for people who’ve worked at Intuit Intuit CEO’s v...Show More

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    TurboTax’s dark pattern of tricking into lower income people to paying them money when they legally don’t need to for “free” tax filing is absolutely crazy and height of unethical web design and devel...Show More

  • 3

    As smart devices become a bigger and bigger part of our lives, we look at how Facebook and other companies gather information about their users and turn it into profits.  Don’t miss out on the next b...Show More

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    A social casino game on Facebook drains a woman’s inheritance of $400k. A son charges $6k on his mom’s credit card by pressing on some coins in a game. Facebook employees call these kids “whales”. Thi...Show More

  • 4

    Dark Patterns on LinkedIn

    UX and Growth Podcast

    45:26 | Jul 2nd, 2015

    Dark Patterns are user interfaces that have been carefully crafted to trick users into doing things, such as buying insurance with their purchase or signing up for recurring bills. In this episode, we...Show More

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