A large-scale academic study that analyzed more than 53,000 product pages on more than 11,000 online stores found widespread use of user interface "dark patterns"-- practices meant to mislead ...

In a new report, the FTC laid out the multitude of “dark pattern” techniques used by apps and websites to confuse and trick users into spending more money online. Photo: Ivan Kruk (Shutterstock) As ...

People don’t visit websites for the design – they want content. As explained in Web UI Patterns 2016 Vol. 1, design is just a means of presenting content in the most intuitive and useful manner. In ...

I can’t be the only UX designer waiting with bated breath for the scrolling ticker’s return. When I log onto the information superhighway to access a geocities site, and I see a news ticker floating ...

In the build up to Google I/O 2019, just over a week away, Google has been making dozens of changes to the schedule, mostly additions. Sometimes, though, details will get removed from the website, ...

There's this really big and expensive problem that's happening right now: dark patterns. Dark patterns are manipulative, often deceptive strategies that retailers and marketers use. Like you know when ...

Since October of last year, Microsoft has been sending customers of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 desktop pop-ups, asking them to update to Windows 10 for free. About a month ago, users who had resisted ...