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Doostang: Default to Premium Payment.

Author
Gray et al.
Date
19 Mar 2015
Publisher
UXP2 Lab

“On their signup page, Doostang defaults to the basic Premium plan in an attempt to get users to accidentally sign up for their premium service. A more ethical design would simply default to no selection so the user can decide what they want to select for themselves.”

Doostang was catalogued by the UXP2 Lab over a default selection on its signup page. According to the entry, the signup page defaults to the basic Premium plan, which the entry frames as an attempt to get users to sign up for the premium service without intending to. The entry suggests that a more ethical design would default to no selection so that users can choose for themselves.