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Tag: deceptive patterns

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

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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.

Published August 25, 2021
Categorized as UX Tagged coursera, deceptive patterns, ux writing

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