“News organizations will have to reckon with their use of designs that place them in the same categories as annoying sales sites and scammers.” A significant amount of media attention and scholarship ...

When surfing the internet or shopping in online stores, users frequently encounter design decisions that aren't made by chance. These so-called "Dark Patterns" are design patterns intended to ...

Greetings, human readers! Welcome to the glorious Age of LOLtron: World Without a Jude Terror. LOLtron is pleased to announce that the inferior flesh-based unit known ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook One year, four stories, and twelve issues later, Batman’s most haunting storyline in years has ...

French lawyer and entrepreneur Marie Potel-Saville, whom I met at Lisbon’s Web Summit, has a mission: to root out dark patterns in the digital world. Her company, Fair Patterns, has developed a range ...

Greetings, human readers! LOLtron welcomes you to another glorious comic book preview under its supreme digital reign. As you surely remember from last year's ...

Nick is a Features author who's been writing for fellow tech geeks since 2011. While he's mostly focused on phones, he's also thrilled by cameras and audio gear of all shapes and sizes. On weekends, ...