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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...