Highlighting Flagged Interactive UI Components
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing content systems fail to effectively highlight interactive components flagged by users as potentially misleading, leading to user deception and unintended interactions.
Innovation Solution
A system that receives first content and second content identifying flagged interactive components, modifying the first content to highlight these components, thereby alerting users to potential deception.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manipulative UI design is used to increase user engagement and conversions, then productivity and commercial success are improved, but user awareness and autonomy deteriorate leading to deception and unintended interactions
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies visual highlighting (color changes) to interactive components that have been flagged by users as potentially misleading. This draws user attention to these components, making the manipulative design patterns visible rather than hidden, thereby restoring user awareness while maintaining the ability to interact with the content.
2Loss of information
If content is modified to highlight flagged interactive components, then user awareness is improved, but device complexity increases due to additional processing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary layer that receives content, identifies flagged interactive components based on user feedback data, and applies highlighting modifications. This intermediary processing layer manages the complexity of analyzing and modifying content without requiring changes to the core content delivery infrastructure, thereby balancing user awareness improvement with acceptable system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
Apparatus, methods and computer programs for receiving first content; receiving second content identifying at least one interactive component comprised by the first content, the at least one interactive component having been flagged by at least one user; and modifying the received first content based on the received second content, to highlight the identified at least one interactive component.