DIGEST #2
Little UX crimes: buttons switching, loading delays, and guilt-tripping
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5 min readJun 17, 2020
Dark UX is a deceptive strategy that manipulates users into doing things they did not intend to do (in order to generate more clicks and sales, of course!). Dark Patterns rely on the fact that all users want to finish their tasks in the shortest time possible, so they won’t notice that few things in the interface are switched.