Dark Patterns: Deception vs. Honesty in UI Design

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In particular, this passage does a fantastic job at articulating the hardest part of my job:

Removing dark patterns from any site involves a leap of faith. A company has to shift from a short-term quantitative measurement mindset to one that values relatively slow, steady growth of “warm fuzzy” qualitative things like brand image, credibility, and trust.

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