UX Gore

Naming and shaming dark patterns and annoying website behaviour since 2019.

[UX Gore @UXGore]

Oh boy lots of goodies here. Also as always GDPR popups are fucking trash and unessesary

[ірина @_lrlna]

Ah yes, the five-popup school of UX.

[UX Gore @UXGore]

Oh boy. Noble intentions not great execution

[Daniel Vassallo @dvassallo]

If your messaging is "We Are Not Chaotic", maybe there shouldn't be 3 popups overlaid on each other. 😱

Your marketing is what you do, not what you say!

[UX Gore @UXGore]

🤮 actual trash company @CondeNast how can you tolerate and promote such trash happening withing your company. This is an atrocious abuse of dark patterns. Not only that but it's not even for something trivial like cookies it's literally to MAKE MONEY ON YOUR DATA

[UX Gore @UXGore]

We've built a shit system that can't accommodate you so you you're doing it wrong

[UX Gore @UXGore]

Replace trusted ux practices with aggressive dark patterns to appease marketing needs

[UX Gore @UXGore]

This can turn out to be a major UI blunder in terms of descriptive icons. Say grandma rings you for tech support. An easy description like "press the blue E to get to the internet" was all you need.

Now?

"Press the blue green swirl"?
"Press the red green and yellow pancake" ?

[Tom Warren @tomwarren]

Microsoft's new Edge logo is the most significant change to its browser logo in more than 20 years https://t.co/Tp01KD6MKP

[UX Gore @UXGore]

Preach! The web is unusable without an ad blocker

[Luke Wroblewski @LukeW]

there are 4 billion active smartphones on Earth.
this is the Web they're getting.

[UX Gore @UXGore]

I'm just trying to book my #AvengersEndgame tickets but @cineworld in their infinite upsell wisdom choose to put a call to action bellow the ticket selection table that takes me out of the booking experience and tests my order. #SayNoToDarkPatterns

[UX Gore @UXGore]

Whats the point of flashing up a whole page cookie warning to me @ITV when the decision is pointless anyway. You're already served me cookies, clicking this button or leaving the site makes 0 difference. This illusion of choice serves no purpose and only leads to frustration

[UX Gore @UXGore]

@AndrewOrtolano @YouTube "are you sure you want to leave this site?" alerts spring to mind *shudders*

[UX Gore @UXGore]

I dared to visit @YouTube without an adblocker for the first time in a while and was greeted by this notification in the bottom left which I don't appreciate. The entire experience behind this is designed to make the user feel bad. Make me think that i'm missing out of something

[UX Gore @UXGore]

The whole experience with this modal is guilt drive. Will I feel guilty for missing out on this? I guess its free so why not... "I don't want to miss out"

Any UX in which the primary motive is something positive to the user or is guilting them into an action is a huge 👿😡

[UX Gore @UXGore]

Theres no way to dismiss this without committing to "skip trial". As a user, do I know if this is a 1 time offer? Do I know for certain i'm not missing out? No. Which is what makes this such a dark pattern. The primary action here is to join the trial.

[UX Gore @UXGore]

Another view of @MediumDesign this time from mobile. Who even wants to read anyway? #popupgore

[Nicholas C. Zakas @slicknet]

Wait, why did I come to this site again?

[UX Gore @UXGore]

Stop brining digital UI items into the physical world just because that's what you're used to seeing

[UX Gore @UXGore]

Must be some pretty posh pub you're trying to get to if you're not even allowed to try and Google maps your way there.

[UX Gore @UXGore]

Interested in actually READING a @Wired article? How about instead of that you instead read a massive ass banner add and also get reminded about how many other banner ads you get to read this month's for free.

[eli @elibelly]

I was gonna make a comment about the overcrowded state of the modern web but then I got this ad and are you fucking kidding me, internet

[UX Gore @UXGore]

@ChloeCondon 🚨 🚓 🚨 Come out with your designs above your head.

[UX Gore @UXGore]

Maybe this is why we're in such a fake news society. You can only read the title 🤣. Thanks for the full page cookie notice with a timeline of cookie law thrown in for good measure @CurbedSF

[Stuart Langridge @sil]

I guess I get to read this article through that tiny little letterbox at the top, then.

[UX Gore @UXGore]

What do you think should be a user's primary choice here? To post the message that they have typed up or to save it as draft and forget about it? According to @basecamp primary action here is to save a draft