Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Unethical Web Design.
I was talking to some friends yesterday about how poorly the Rogers website works even after their recent webdesign and hypothesised that it was done on purpose to try and get more money out of people. Then I came across this article about http://darkpatterns.org/ a site that collects unethical web-design patterns. In the presentation (linked from the article) they talk about a call for a "web-design code of ethics" so that designers and users can protest against companies when they use these designs.
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Interesting find!
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/ -- I'm sure you could find some overlap there.
A lot of companies have been known to do this: having crappy web designs to leech more money off of existing customers wanting to cancel their subscription.
ReplyDeleteMicrosoft is the first thing that came to my mind...
http://i.imgur.com/OG703.png/
(WARNING: LANGUAGE)
Really interesting read.
ReplyDeleteThe Bait and Switch section on that website reminded me of a FB news feed I had. It said that PersonA liked . Usually clicking on would take you to the page where you can browse for more information, but in that instance, it made my profile like and published that on my wall.