#DarkPatterns (or #AntiPatterns) riddle the digital landscape in a short-term effort to lift business metrics — but in the end , they usually fail wot work as they erode people's trust in the experience
Avoiding their use is hard, tho and I found this piece to be a good refreshed on the things a #UXDesigner can do to discourage their use
https://raw.studio/blog/designing-with-integrity-the-ethical-designers-handbook-on-dark-patterns/
If everyone sticks their #smartphones into a case, then why are #smartphonedesign to look and feel amazing when held? Why not make it a blank utilitarian design that can just be augmented with #phonecases, wouldn't that be more #humancentricdesign ? On the flip side, why spend so much effort on designing it to look and feel amazing if it's so expensive and fragile that almost no one uses it naked?
Your software design and architecture can be intentional or accidental. Have you consider the environment in which your organisation operates with? It is crucial to learn it, in order to build relevant products. 💬
➡️ https://www.impactfulness.nl/workshops/intentional-architecture/
I’m glad that the growing availability of on-device camera OCR will soon allow the ugly QR codes adorning our environment to go away. That was never a good solution.
And in the same way, I hope opt-in full-text indexing will eventually replace machine-targeted hashtag blocks at the bottom of mastodon posts.
#Mastodon #hashtags #QRCode #HumanCentricDesign #DigitalEphemera
