HumanOS · Book 2
Dark Patterns
How Apps Secretly Manipulate Your Choices
About this book
Dark Patterns reveals the hidden design techniques that apps and websites use to manipulate user choices. From confirmshaming to hidden subscriptions, forced account creation to impossible cancellation flows, the book catalogues the most common deceptive patterns and explains why they work. More importantly, it equips readers with the awareness to recognise and resist them.
Main themes
- Deceptive design
- User manipulation
- Consumer protection
- Digital rights
Who this book is for
Online shoppers, privacy-conscious users, and anyone who has ever struggled to cancel a subscription or unsubscribe from a mailing list.