Introduction: Custom Web Design Isn’t Just About Looks, It’s About Performance A good-looking website is nice and visually appealing. However, what sets a good-looking website apart … ...

As designers, we are user advocates first and foremost. We need to understand what users want versus need before they ever encounter our designs. Once they do encounter it, they must first feel safe ...

These days, blogging software and content management systems allow users with hardly an ounce of design sense to create professional-looking websites, using pre-fabbed “off-the-shelf” templates. But ...

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 UI ...

The web design landscape changes constantly, requiring effectiveness and creativity. The traditional web design process often requires long planning stages. Artificial intelligence today can provide ...

Anyone who’s been online in the last decade probably recognizes “dark patterns,” design tactics used on websites and apps that trick users into doing something — buying something, agreeing to ...

Daniel Fitton does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Recently I wrote about the proliferation of dark patterns and tried to give readers a sense of just how widespread these practices are. But it is not just the pervasiveness of dark patterns that has ...

This week, the trial starts in a consequential FTC lawsuit against Amazon. The suit alleges that Amazon for years "tricked" people into buying Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel.