dark patterns
Type: Concept
As of November 2026, dark patterns has been mentioned in one podcast episode on Lenny's Podcast (Dec 2025).
A dark pattern is a user interface that has been carefully crafted to trick users into doing things, such as buying overpriced insurance with their purchase or signing up for recurring bills. User experience designer Harry Brignull coined the neologism on 28 July 2010 with the registration of darkpatterns.org, a "pattern library with the specific goal of naming and shaming deceptive user interfaces". The website has since moved to deceptive.design. In 2023, he released the book Deceptive Pattern
| Mentioned in | 1 episode on 1 podcast (as of November 2026) |
|---|---|
| First heard | Dec 2025 on Lenny's Podcast |
| Field | Human-computer interaction; ethics |
Who talks about dark patterns on podcasts?
Lenny Rachitsky brought up dark patterns; the most recent mention was Dec 2025 on Lenny's Podcast.
- The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen on Lenny's Podcast (Dec 2025) — Lenny Rachitsky
What is dark patterns mentioned alongside?
dark patterns is most often mentioned alongside Granola, Descript, Inc. and Stripe.
Mentioned together: Granola, Descript, Inc., Stripe, Lovable, Terence Tao, Plaid, AWS, Frontier AI lab, taste, verifiers