The Curse of Knowledge in UX

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5 points·userpeek··6 comments

Not impressed by their 'Privacy Preference' dark pattern. Accept all is emphasised in green, and presumably disregards the various unticked boxes. The Save button is hidden beneath it with a clearly deliberate low contrast.

And this from an article on UX! I couldn't put it better than their first sentence: As UX experts, we bear the responsibility of introducing the brand or the product to our target audiences in the best ways we can.

The Save button fails every contrast check it possibly could: https://contrastchecker.com/?c=bcbcbc&b=fcfcfc

If the Accept all button does what you suggest (secretly tick the empty boxes), it is a deeply unethical, and almost definitely illegal design.

Edit: Since userpeek appear to have submitted the article themselves, perhaps they have a comment?

This is so obviously in violation of the law, I am wondering why no Data Protection Agency has started crawling the web for this and automated the process of enforcement.

I second that. Left the page as soon as I saw it.

I don't want to snark, but there's a real irony here that the UX for the Privacy Preference actively subverts UX. It's only the 'curse of knowledge' that made me look for the 'Save' button which otherwise appeared to be disabled.

(And then I get a solid blue window popover after a few seconds of inactivity!)

Nonfunctional with adblock enabled. Bad content. Self-submission. Lipsum and a thispersondoesnotexist.com persona used for a testimonial on the pricing page: https://files.catbox.moe/9wt8hz.png

Go away.

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