{"id":58,"date":"2021-03-20T13:09:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T20:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540mlc\/?p=58"},"modified":"2021-03-20T13:47:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T20:47:21","slug":"task-10-dark-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540mlc\/2021\/03\/20\/task-10-dark-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Task 10: Dark Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540mlc\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-20-at-12.47.44-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"697\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540mlc\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-20-at-12.47.44-PM.png 697w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540mlc\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-20-at-12.47.44-PM-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540mlc\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-20-at-12.47.44-PM-552x367.png 552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I definitely did not feel like an interface legend while going through this. There were a few things I noticed and didn\u2019t fall for (such as the time pop up) but the ones that did get me were:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">adding a capital letter to my password even though it said \u201cshould\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">caught on quickly that the placeholder text needed to be deleted, but it was certainly time consuming and annoying to deal with<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">white box for \u201cselected\u201d for gender<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cselect all\u201d reselected all the boxes and it took me a few seconds to find \u201cunselect all\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">took me an embarrassing amount of time to find the top row of boxes to check even though I thought it was strange that the bottom row had no boxes<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I spent too much time overthinking some of the chess boards before just selecting all of them (this stage took me more than half the total time in the game)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I also spent a bit of time agonizing over entering personal information as I wasn\u2019t sure where it was going so I made some of it up. I was surprised that I was able to enter my \u201cgo-to\u201d fake US zipcode (90210) and choose Canada as my country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I consider myself to be someone who is fairly aware of advertising and dark patterns, especially when it comes to online shopping. For example, one of the online quilting shops I buy from will have the box below displayed when viewing an item. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540mlc\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-20-at-1.01.32-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540mlc\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-20-at-1.01.32-PM.png 463w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540mlc\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-20-at-1.01.32-PM-300x62.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This serves to promote a scarcity mindset to encourage shoppers to buy the item immediately. Others I\u2019ve seen will say that there are only x items remaining and it is in 2x people\u2019s carts. Or a website will have a big green \u201cDOWNLOAD\u201d button but the actual link to download the file is in small text below. It has taken me a while to become savvy and to see through these tactics and that has come through experience. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">&nbsp; I definitely did not feel like an interface legend while going through this. 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