Minimizing

Hiding privacy rights in legal jargon and hard-to-find locations, making them easy to overlook.

The terms of service is placed after the call to action and the size is inaccessible.

Altruheuristics


Biology

  • Dopamine: Reading long legal text is unenjoyable.
  • Flow: The T&Cs are displayed during sign up and being asked to read long text.

CBT Distortions

  • None

Biases

  • Salient Bias
  • Sunk Cost Fallacy
  • Hyperbolic Discounting

Circ’s Principles

  • Calmness: Provide all information required upfront before the journey.
  • Transparency: Reduce anxiety by removing uncertainty and explaining algorithm updates.

Mental Health

  • None.

Traditional Heuristics


Jakob Nielson Principles

  • None

Gestalt

  • None

Don Norman Principles

  • Hierarchy: The link to T&Cs tend to be smaller reducing its prominence.

Graphic Design

  • None

Deceptive Patterns

  • None