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How can Shazam – and your second screen – help you test drive a car?

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Car maker Volvo has turned to Shazam to make its latest ad and car, the Volvo V40, more engaging to second screen users.

Gaming

Microsoft boosts Xbox online, buys Al Gore funded video search site, VideoSurf

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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Microsoft has boosted its search credentials with the buyout of VideoSurf – a Shizam-like video search engine founded in 2006 and partially funded by Al Gore.

Mobile

Broadcast media check-in service IntoNow acquired by Yahoo!

Darren McCarra9 years ago

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Only twelve weeks after launch media check-in service IntoNow has been acquired by Yahoo! for a speculated $30 million dollars. The service exists as an iPhone application that provides real-time social experiences around broadcast media programming.

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

August 10, 2020

Sam Brake Guia

How Online Casinos Bet on Addicts Through Psychological Ploys

August 3, 2020

Sam Brake Guia

Libido in Lockdown: Exploring Copulation in Isolation

July 27, 2020

Sam Brake Guia

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

July 20, 2020

Sam Brake Guia