Kinda. I was writing a piece on unethical web design on Medium. I sent the draft to my peers for transparency, but I was no where near done, just letting them know what I was doing. I pulled a few examples from our sites because by calling out our wrongdoings I felt like we'd be taking responsibility and acknowledging our need to do better.
The examples were harmless in my opinion, like already checked newsletter sign up boxes. I didn't expose anything that wasn't already in our privacy policy, or anything that was a secret.
Anyway, I upset a couple people, but we came to an agreement about it and have so far made one change to our sites.
// , “It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness... but the monkey is serious because he itches."(No/No)
If you wanted, you could even break your post into little pieces, one post for each example, to make it easier. And if you wanted to "soften the blow" a bit, you could call it "UI-UX Antipatterns that Degrade User Trust" or something "nicer" like that.
Here's an example of one post that focuses on just one such "Antipattern" that seems intended to deceive users:
Kinda. I was writing a piece on unethical web design on Medium. I sent the draft to my peers for transparency, but I was no where near done, just letting them know what I was doing. I pulled a few examples from our sites because by calling out our wrongdoings I felt like we'd be taking responsibility and acknowledging our need to do better.
The examples were harmless in my opinion, like already checked newsletter sign up boxes. I didn't expose anything that wasn't already in our privacy policy, or anything that was a secret.
Anyway, I upset a couple people, but we came to an agreement about it and have so far made one change to our sites.
I never published the piece.
I wish you would, even if you have to obfuscate the details.
I did all this research and have all these notes and sources. I'll have to get back into the groove to finish it. Thanks for the encouragement.
Good for you! I hate those.
If you wanted, you could even break your post into little pieces, one post for each example, to make it easier. And if you wanted to "soften the blow" a bit, you could call it "UI-UX Antipatterns that Degrade User Trust" or something "nicer" like that.
Here's an example of one post that focuses on just one such "Antipattern" that seems intended to deceive users:
medium.com/usabilitygeek/ui-ux-ant...
Thanks! Breaking it to sounds like a good idea.