Bringing Dark Patterns to Light

Research on when consumers believe they are being manipulated by marketers, and when they get it wrong. Explains both the false alarms and the missed detections.

Khon, Johnson and Hang

A crawl of 11,000 shopping sites that found 1,818 dark patterns across 15 types. It turns a vague complaint about manipulative design into measured evidence.

Mathur, Acar, Friedman and others