We all know them. If you’ve ever registered a domain name before, purchased a car, or hell, watched TV for 10 minutes, then you’ve experienced a dark pattern.
Normally when you think of “bad design”, you think of laziness or mistakes. These are known as design anti-patterns. Dark Patterns are different – they are not mistakes, they are carefully crafted with a solid understanding of human psychology, and they do not have the user’s interests in mind.
Out of all the pattern catalogs I have bookmarked, this is possibly one of the most interesting.
via Dark Patterns.