Uncover Evil Design Tricks in Subreddit Asshole Design
You open what looks like a banknote, but it’s just spam. You click on the donation process too quickly and they convert your one-time donation into a monthly installment. The packaging of the snack makes it bigger; public opinion polls are clearly one-sided; when you copy and paste a line from an article, the site adds a “more” link for your “convenience”. Don’t express your impotent rage alone. Take it to Reddit / r / assholedesign to expose and discuss evil design gimmicks.
As Co.Design points out , this is more than an ugly and sloppy design; there is already a subreddit for this. This is a deliberately painful design to help the creator at your expense. The designer wants you to click on an ad, or to get scammed, or spend more money than you want to.
Our favorites: half a Stanley Cup , a fake parking ticket, and (pictured above) a classic Christian treatise that looks like money is a very bad way to turn your waiters into Jesus.
Asshole design | Reddit (via Co.Design )