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The fairy tales and realities of UX design

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After reading articles penned by Mark Hurst , Peter Merholz , and Jesse James Garrett , I began to realize that the problem was beyond myself. It’s not as flashy as a massive new product, creative new feature, or rolling out the next big thing. See Ruined by Design for more details. I bought into this fairy tale.

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Kinder product design

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How the flow of a digital experience should go, which features to build, how to prompt actions (“You’re about to die. It’s just too close to a flow chart of the typical rodent’s behavior in a Skinner Box, and feels like the thing Mark Hurst wrote about? —?UX UX becoming an acronym for User Exploitation rather than User Experience.

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Deceive, confuse, wear down: the dark patterns of UX

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Finally, forced action occurs when you gain or maintain access to a feature or resource only in exchange for performing a certain action. As Mark Hurst, whom Forbes once described as a user experience jedimaster , writes on his blog, UX no longer deserves its name. Forced action: sign up to download The sad truth?

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