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Deceptive UX patterns in Coursera’s enrollment ‘deadlines’ and ‘starts’ [micro-anecdotnalysis]

August 26, 2021August 25, 2021 by tumo
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The online learning platform Coursera makes it appear users may miss a course if they do not enroll by a certain date. In fact, a course starts (and stops) whenever a user chooses.

Categories UX Tags coursera, deceptive patterns, ux writing

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