Design · User Experience Design
A topic within User Experience Design, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Design.
2 works
Harry Brignull
Coins 'dark pattern' for an interface deliberately designed to trick a user into an action they did not mean to take, and starts a public list to name specific examples in the wild.
Colin M. Gray et al.
Analyses design-practitioner accounts of dark patterns to build a strategies-level taxonomy of the ethical lapses that produce them, arguing they emerge from ordinary business pressure on designers rather than deliberate malice alone.