Here you can find a selection of links and articles about Dark Patterns.
For further examples of dark patterns see Twitter: @darkpatterns and @dapde_project.
Academic Papers
(partly only with access rights)
- Dark Patterns - Phänomenologie und Antworten der Rechtsordnung, Martini/Drews/Seeliger/Weinzierl, ZfDR 2021, S. 47 - 74 (Open Access)
- "Vertane Chance – Die Cookie-Prüfung der deutschen Datenschutzbehörden lässt das Thema „Dark Patterns“ liegen", Quirin Weinzierl (Dapde-Projektkoordinator), ZD-Aktuell 2020, 04419 (German)
- Dark Patterns als Herausforderung für das Recht - Rechtlicher Schutz vor der Ausnutzung von Verhaltensanomalien, Quirin Weinzierl (Dapde-Project Coordinator), NVwZ – Extra 15/2020, S. 1-11 (German)
- Dark Patterns in the Interaction with Cookie Banners, Philip Hausner and Prof. Dr. Michael Gertz, published at the "What Can CHI Do About Dark Patterns?" workshop of CHI 2021
- Dark Patterns: Regulating Digital Design, How digital design practices un-dermine public policy efforts & how governments and regulators can respond, Sebastian Riegers and Caroline Sinders, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, 2020 (German/English)
- Dark Patterns after the GDPR: Scraping Consent Pop-ups and Demonstrating their Influence, Midas Nouwens, Ilaria Liccardi, Michael Veale, David Karger, Lalana Kagal, 2020
- Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future. The evolution of tricky user interfaces, Arvind Narayanan, Arunesh Mathur, Marshini Chetty, Mihir Kshirsagar, 2020
- Do Cookie Banners Respect my Choice? Measuring Legal Compliance of Banners from IAB Europe's Transparency and Consent Framework, Célestin Matt, Nataliia Bielova, Cristiana Santos, 2019
- Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites, Arunesh Mathur, Gunes Acar, Michael J. Friedman, Elena Lucherini, Jonathan Mayer, Marshini Chetty, Arvind Narayanan, 2019
- The Dark (Patterns) Side of UX Design, Colin M. Gray, Yubo Kou, Bryan Battles, Joseph Hoggatt, Austin L. Toombs, 2018
Websites
Verdicts etc.
Other media
- Dark patterns: born to mislead, Federico Caruso, europedatajournalism.eu, 2019
- Video: Websites that insult you - the UX dark pattern of "confirmshaming", youtube.com, Unusable Podcast, 2019
- WTF is dark pattern design?, Natasha Lomas, 2018
- Deceived by Design: How tech companies use dark patterns to discourage us from exercising our rights to privacy, Forbrukerrådet, 2018
- When Websites won't take no for an answer, New York Times, Natasha Singer, 2016
- Dark Patterns: inside the interfaces designed to trick you, Harry Brignull, 2013
- Dark Patterns: Deception vs. Honesty in UI Design, Harry Brignull, 2011
- Dark Patterns: dirty tricks designers use to make people do stuff, Harry Brignull, 2010
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