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Design Beyond Deception: A Practitioner's Manual to Tackle Deceptive Design

We have developed a manual of responsible design principles for practitioners keeping users and their needs at the centre.

Using our human-centered design approach, this project combines multidisciplinary research with insights gathered from a community of practitioners to create a manual of ethical UI/UX design principles which practitioners can use to tackle deceptive design practices.
Design beyond deception :A practitioner's manual to tackle deceptive design
Suggested citation: Vashist, T., Krishnakumar, S. and Kamalakannan, D. (2023, October). Design Beyond Deception. The Pranava Institute.

Explore the Manual

We explore the nature of 'dark patterns', the role of cognitive bias in the design, and reported user harms. It seeks to centre the designer's role in challenging deception and moving towards responsible practice.

Print out and work on the activity pages in this chapter:

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Print the Activity pages

We recommend downloading this print version of the activity-only pages of our manual to engage with them better!

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Design Beyond
Deception
Workshop

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We offer Customised, Hands-on workshop tailored to your organisation or team on how to tackle deceptive design! 

Tools to tackle Deceptive Design

What can we do next? Card deck on deceptive design

Action cards

What can we do next? - Card Deck

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The TAO framework

Framework

TAO Framework

Use this framework to anchor your core design values

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values matter in design

Tool

Identify your values

Identify your values at work and values in action. Do you values come across to your user?

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Is this interaction extractive?

Tool

Is this Interaction extractive?

Unpack if a product is extractive in nature

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Interested in the full manual?

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