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Interactive learning platform for developers Educative raises $2.3M

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Seattle-based interactive learning platform for software developers, Educative, today announces it has raised $2.3 million in seed funding from Trilogy Equity...

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Microsoft DECODED Show Season 2 to kick off with special screening in SF

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Microsoft announces the premier of the second season of the DECODED Show to air on Wednesday, August 23 at 6PM PST...

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Council on Integrity Taps Coding Bootcamp DevMountain to Build Student Trust

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Coding bootcamp DevMountain is selected to join a newly-established education watchdog that ensures students aren't deceived about job placement after...

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Microsoft’s ‘Decoded’: The importance of coding best practice

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Microsoft’s Technical Fellow John Shewchuck discusses the importance of coding best practices with Node expert Isaac Schlueter. Last week, Microsoft...

Brains Byte Back

The weekly podcast looking at how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. Every Monday we bring you the best stories and guests from around the world relating to technology, psychology, and society.

If you are unfamiliar with dark pattern design, then you might be thinking, as Tech Crunch put it – “WTF is dark pattern design?” To put it simply, dark pattern design is when a user interface is carefully constructed to trick users into doing things they might not otherwise do.

Today’s episode is the first installment in a two-part series that explores ethical user experience design – commonly known as UX design. In this interview, Brains Byte Back co-host Mags Tanev, is joined by Claudia Cabrera, a UX designer at a global digital transformation company, intive.

Claudia strives to make better products through user-centered design and learning how these digital solutions create an impact in people’s lives. In this episode, Tanev and Cabrera dive deep into dark pattern design techniques, what they are, how they’re used, what kind of impact they can have on us, and how UX relates to issues surrounding data privacy and the growing dominance of Big Tech companies in our lives. Hope you enjoy the show.

Furthermore, you will also learn why airline companies use timers when you are booking flights, how Facebook experiments on their users, and how eCommerce websites sneak extra purchases into your basket.

Dark patterns: How UX design tricks deceive us

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Who owns the rights to AI's new artistic talents?

July 20, 2020

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