In this final post on dark patterns (designs that take advantage of your cognitive biases to manipulate you or deceive you) we continue to explore what these patterns are and how they're being used, the cognitive bias' they may be leveraging, and how to avoid using them in your designs.

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In this third installment of the dark patterns series, we dig into Bait and Switch, Drip Pricing, and (did you read the blog post!?) Nagging.

With a little help from Zoolander, we explore more dark patterns being practiced today in the industry including confirm-shaming, forced action, subscription traps, and interface interference.

Make no mistake - dark patterns (designs that take advantage of your cognitive biases to manipulate you or deceive you) are intentional devices, not accidental bad design. And they are everywhere.

There is no part of being laid off that someone would describe as "fun". It is an awful experience and claiming otherwise would be both irresponsible and disingenuous. So, given all of that, it's hard to imagine how on earth you might be grateful for getting laid off. Why would you ever feel gratitude for losing your job?