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The Dungeon of Dark Patterns

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The Dungeon of Dark Patterns A comic in four panels Panel 1. The adventurer and his fairy are in front of the door of a nightmarish dungeon, it's dark, foggy, and the inside the door we can't see anything except a deep red light. > Dungeon: "Welcome adventurers, to the Dungeon of Dark Patterns!" Panel 2. In one room of the dungeon, a giant beautiful and inviting door with a red carpet, and on the side, in the shadow a too little door. Writing on big door: Go to the trap, on small door: Go to the treasure. The adventurer crouch and do a little sign to the fairy to follow him to the little door. > Dungeon: "Ha ha, you're good!" Panel 3. The aventurer is now putting some effort climbing on an old rope in the middle of a room with a beautiful luxuous stairway with a red carpet on the side. A sign tells "GO TO THE TREASURE but pass by the trap" in direction of the beautiful stairs; and "(other options)" in small and in the shadow in direction of the rope. > Dungeon: "Impressive!" Panel 4. Top down view on the adventurers shrugging in front of the fairy, they reached a dead end. A short path on the right has on the ground the word "Now", and a longer path "Later". Both lead to a giant pool of green acid where bones and skulls are floating. > Dungeon: "So, when do you want to jump to the trap?"

Well this is just excellent.

I’d not come across David Revoy before today, but he’s apparently being doing art and comics since 2014. The Mini Fantasy Theatre series started a couple of years ago, but is totally getting added to my RSS reader. Almost everything’s bilingual English/French too, if that’s something that interests you.

Navigating around the dark patterns of modern UX certainly feels like a dungeon delve, sometimes. Now we just need the episode in which the adventurer has difficulty unsubscribing from requests from their patron…

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