[trustable-software] Dark Patterns for unethical user interfaces
Paul Sherwood
paul.sherwood at codethink.co.uk
Sun Jul 31 08:34:23 UTC 2016
Hi all,
I came across darkpatterns.org from an article in Ars Technica today
[1], and immediately recognised that there may be some interest for
readers here.
Although I've noticed some of the user-interface scams that are
mentioned there, it hadn't occurred to me that there are so many big
name companies dedicating huge amounts of deliberate *effort* into
tricking people in such systematic ways.
Harry Brignull's call in his presentation [2] for a code of ethics and
public shaming immediately made me think of the automotive situation,
where emissions-cheating software was passed of as “this was a couple of
software engineers who put this in for whatever reason.” I don't think
anyone really believes that was true, and I'm sure there are many
situations where engineers are being pressured to do the wrong thing.
I think we should start thinking about how best to establish a solid
code of ethics for software engineering here. Any ideas on how to start
that?
br
Paul
[1]
http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/07/dark-patterns-what-are-they/
[2] https://youtu.be/1KVyFio8gw4
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