The thing about dark patterns is that you design them from the exact same rulebooks that we use to enhance usability. Nielsen’s 10 heuristics, probably one of the most well-known set of ...

UX Design Leads Your Behavior, and That’s (Usually) a Good Thing Websites and apps rely on design language to direct users on how to accomplish the task they want to do.

Anti-patterns can be hard to spot. Anti-patterns are the inevitable outcome when a rule set is applied so rigidly that it yields the opposite of the original desired outcome.