The free e-book Web UI Design Best Practices includes more advice for patterns and other techniques. The 109-page e-book includes hands-on tips based on examples analyzed from 30+ companies.

Yet a new study by academics in Germany and the U.K. suggests that humans may still play a role in web design—at least if you want a website that doesn’t trick your users.. Veronika Krauss at ...

The Web Foundation‘s Tech Policy Design Lab is working on an interesting-looking project to counter deceptive design — aka dark patterns* — with the goal of producing a portfolio of UX and ...

Viral web design trends play a huge role in today's digital world. They boost user interaction and look good, too, often making companies more visible online. But knowing how to use these trends ...

Dark patterns aren’t limited to the Web, either. The Columbia House mail-order music club of the '80s and '90s famously charged users exorbitant rates for music they didn’t choose if they ...

Frustrating user-experience tactics can have real harm, “dark pattern” expert says. Website and app design strategies that trick users can cost consumers time and money, Harry Brignull says.

Design Patterns Solve Common Problems for Web’s Color Blind Users. Every website owner wants to reach as large of an audience as possible.

When we pulled up this little presentation by Harry Brignull on "Dark Patterns" in UI design we assumed we'd be seeing some new nefarious techniques that designers were just happening upon.

Design patterns provide proven solutions to real world problems faced in software designs. The Repository pattern is used to decouple the business logic and the data access layers in your application.

A UX designer breaks down the intentionally malicious design of Trump’s campaign website "Psychology overload": UX designer Mary Formanek breaks down how Trump's campaign site manipulates visitors ...