Aug 2021

Conversations on Legal Design (4/4): Privacy icons, and reflection on the series

Previously: In seminar session three, Prof. Helena Haapio provided insight into her work on contract design and promoting “proactive law” thinking. Before diving into the topic of privacy icons Dr. Zohar Efroni, from the Weizenbaum Institute for […]
2021

“I, Obscura,” a dark pattern zine launched from Stanford and UCLA

pacscenter.stanford.edu

Scholars at Stanford and UCLA assembled this zine (on Issuu.com or as a 45MB PDF) on deceptive patterns, primarily to make them more tangible to non-techy people.
2021

Contract design for humans: preventing cognitive accidents

simplificationcentre.org.uk

In the report "Contract design for humans", Rob Waller presents an interesting perspective on contract design that could easily be translated into other areas of legal design, or even to UX at large.
2021

I am Definitely Manipulated, Even When I am Aware of it. It s Ridiculous! -- Dark Patterns from the End-User Perspective

arxiv.org

This study, based on a survey of 406 individuals, shines light on the fact that end users very much notice when they are misled by deceptive design patterns, yet they still feel manipulated even after noticing that.
2021