Despite increasing awareness of dark patterns and anti-patterns in UX design, privacy invasive design choices remain prevalent in real world systems. These choices often stem not from malicious intent, but from a lack of structured guidance and contextual understanding among designers. Designers face challenges not only in detecting deceptive interactions, but also in anticipating how certain features may cause harm. Contributing factors such as limited ability to recognize harm, lack of relatable design references, and challenges in connecting abstract privacy principles to concrete design scenarios, particularly when designing for non-dominant user groups.
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Speculating Unintended Creepiness: Exploring LLM-Powered Empathy Building for Privacy-Aware UX Design
Grounded in motivation theory and contextual design thinking, the approach supports reasoning across multiple user-feature interactions situated in real world scenarios, with the goal of revealing hidden risks and inspiring designer empathy to promote privacy-aware design for everyone.