Deceptive Patterns

A taxonomy of deceptive design patterns, laws, cases, reading list, hall of shame, and Deceptive Patterns book
Active
Since 2010
In London

This website (formerly darkpatterns.org) was founded by Dr. Harry Brignull, and is now run in collaboration with a group of expert legal scholars:

Dr. Mark Leiser

Dr. Cristiana Santos

Kosha Doshi

Deceptive Patterns
Project type: Resource
Tags: guides
Last modified: Nov 12, 2025 Added: Jul 30, 2023
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