10 Evil Types of Dark UX Patterns

How designers are using UX for evil.

Danny Sapio
UX Collective
Published in
4 min readFeb 24, 2020

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The UX field was born on the desire to improve the experiences and interactions that people have with products and services. But what happens when designers use those powers for evil? When designers use UX to cause users to take specific actions maliciously, these are what’s called dark UX.

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