Darkpatterns

From Publication Station

The user tries to do one thing, but a different, undesirable thing happens instead.

Internet art work that deceive the user

JODI (labyrinths and dead-ends): http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/ http://joid.org/archive/jetsetwilly_images/img-gen162.png

Rafaël Rozendaal : Abstract Browsing http://www.abstractbrowsing.net/wikipedia.png

The Deletionist, Amaranth Borsuk, Jesper Juul, and Nick Montfort

The Deletionist is a concise system for automatically producing an erasure poem from any Web page. It systematically removes text to uncover poems, discovering a network of poems called “the Worl” within the World Wide Web.

http://www.thedeletionist.com/gfx/deletionist_logo.png


Jonas Lund: Blue Crush

https://jonaslund.biz/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/bluecrash2-1000x625.jpg

prototyping deceptive interfaces


Exercise/homework

Within the group you made with Javi, create a simple web only deceptive interface. It can be anything:

  • interfaces that remove/hides content from a webpage
  • interfaces that create abstract images from a webpage
  • interfaces that leads the user to confusion

In class write down in myWdKA what you interface will be.

During the week develop the interface