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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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OneDrive disguising the "Buy now" button using the Cancel color scheme (programming.dev)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/assholedesign
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[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Software Engineers and UX/UI Designers need a code of ethics, like yesterday.

Yes, business is ultimately to blame, but those folks are beyond saving - they will never ever ever put the brakes on an initiative that could make more money legally. Unless there's blowback from an ethics board / professionals in charge of implementing their dark patterns.