Darkpatterns

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

• changing text:
  • 1A https://codepen.io/PublicationStation/pen/VxMmMm
  • 1B https://codepen.io/PublicationStation/pen/MGEbzN
  • 1C https://codepen.io/PublicationStation/pen/ELwNGP
• changing colors:
  • 1A https://codepen.io/PublicationStation/pen/jxGVed
  • 1B https://codepen.io/PublicationStation/pen/aGLBQN
  • 1C https://codepen.io/PublicationStation/pen/JvrbeR

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