Comment by dec0dedab0de

Comment by dec0dedab0de 2 days ago

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I always thought that "Dark Patterns" could be emergent from AB testing, and prioritizing metrics over user experience. Not necessarily an intentionally hostile design, but one that seems to be working well based on limited criteria.

wat10000 2 days ago

Someone still has to come up with the A and B to do AB testing. I'm sure that "Yes" "Not now, I hate kittens" gets better metrics in the AB test than "Yes "No," but I find it implausible that the person who came up with the first one wasn't intentionally coercing the user into doing what they want.

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  • jdiff 2 days ago

    That's true for UI, it's not true when you're arbitrarily injecting user feedback into a dynamic system where you do not know how the dominoes will be affected as they fall.

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