[p2p-research] design anti-patterns and protocollary power

[Michel Bauwens]

http://darkpatterns.org/

dear sepp, this is very important, thanks for looking into this and
eventually reporting on it with an example!


*This pattern library is dedicated to Dark Patterns: user interfaces that
have been designed to trick users into doing things they wouldn’t otherwise
have done.*

Normally when you think of “bad design”, you think of laziness or mistakes.
These are known as design
anti-patterns<http://looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com/2007/11/anti-patterns-earlier-this-year-i.html>.
Dark Patterns are different – they are not mistakes, they are carefully
crafted with a solid understanding of human psychology, and they do not have
the user’s interests in mind.

The purpose of this site is to catalogue various common types of Dark
Pattern, and to name and shame organizations that use them.

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