When I visit my aging mother in the Midwest, I watch as she sits at her computer endlessly scrolling on Facebook. Like many of us, her use of social media has gone far past simple utility (“I need it ...

Have you ever noticed how online accounts are incredibly easy to sign up for, but can be hair-pullingly difficult to close? Sometimes the Close Account option is right where you’d think it would be, ...

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Every day, you use apps and services that were carefully crafted by teams of professional designers to deliver the best user experience possible. At least, that’s the idea. However, if you’ve ever ...

Amazon has been fined in Poland for misleading consumers about the conclusion of sales contracts on its online marketplace. The sanction, of close to $8 million (or in local currency: PLN 31,850,141), ...

Mozilla is once again accusing Microsoft of using manipulative design in Windows to push users toward its AI assistant, ...

U.S. senators are reaching across the aisle in an effort to stop the dark patterns in software, according to Axios. Dark patterns are user interface elements that are intentionally designed to trick ...