Dissemination
I regularly give talks to both the general public and industry professionals to discuss topics such as design, persuasive design, dark patterns and ethical design. I have produced two publications for digital professionals in collaboration with the Designers Éthiques association.
Publications
september 2025
Alternative Patterns/ Notification
Professional resource with Designers Éthiques.
User research into the use of notifications and the creation of an alternative notification component that respects users’ freedom of choice.
october 2023
Guide "concevoir sans dark patterns : guide à l'intention des designers"
Professional guide with Designers Éthiques.
A guide for digital designers and those providing digital services, setting out the stages of a digital service design project to help create projects free from dark patterns.
Communications for the general public
may 2026
25 people
Shadok
In Strasbourg.
Lecture: Captive engagement and dark patterns.
april 2026
70 people
Critical Thinking Meetings
In Toulouse.
Lecture: ‘Dark patterns’: an in-depth look at deceptive design.
april 2026
50 people
Critical Thinking Meetings
In Toulouse.
Lecture: 30 years of captology and ‘persuasive technologies’.
With Thibault Renard.
Communications for digital professionals
january 2026
15 people
France Télévision (in-house design guild)
Online.
Lecture: Notifications: Persuasive design and alternative patterns.
december 2025
10 people
Yes to designs
In Nantes.
Organised by One Point, the Nantes Atlantique School of Design and Monotype.
Lecture: ‘Dark patterns, persuasion, captology… the invisible strategies that influence our daily lives’.
november 2025
10 people
Flupa Nantes
In Nantes.
Lecture: ‘Notification: challenges and possible solutions’.
november 2025
50 people
BDX I/O
In Bordeaux.
Lecture: ‘Notification: challenges and possible solutions’.
october 2025
200 people
Nantes Devfest
In Nantes.
Lecture: ‘Notification: challenges and possible solutions’.
december 2024
20 people
Collect’IF Collective
Online.
Lecture: ‘Captology and dark patterns: the invisible strategies that influence our daily lives’.
september 2024
200 people
Paris web
In Paris.
Lecture: ‘From the lunar calendar to smartphone notifications’.
With Esther Jacquet.
september 2024
30 people
Designers Éthiques Nantes
In Nantes.
Lecture: ‘From the lunar calendar to smartphone notifications’.
With Esther Jacquet.
april 2024
30 people
Meetup Night
In Nantes.
Lecture: ‘Design without manipulation’.
october 2023
1,000 people
Nantes Devfest
In Nantes.
Lecture: ‘How interfaces manipulate us!’.
october 2023
4,000 views
Conference de Designers éthiques
Online.
Launch event for the guide ‘Designing without dark patterns’.
Other guests: Romain Badouard, Pierre-Yves Gosset, Estelle Hary, Joséphine Hurstel.
Round-table moderator: Karl Pineau.
september 2023
10 people
France Design Week
In Quimper.
Lecture: ‘Digital design in 2023: ethics and responsibility – a key issue’.
june 2022
30 people
IA Days (French Tech+)
In Brest.
Round-table discussion: ‘AI for the user experience’.
may 2022
30 people
UX Design Brest
In Brest.
Lecture: “Manipulation in design: techniques that influence our choices.”
Workshops for digital professionals
march 2025
15 people
Responsible Digital Technology Day (ADN Ouest)
In Nantes.
Workshop: ‘Responsible design of digital services: what does it involve and how can we put it into practice?’.
With Sophie Provost and Noël Roisnel.
november 2023
15 people
Designers Éthiques Brest
In Brest.
Workshop: ‘Dark patterns in user interfaces’.
october 2023
15 people
Designers Éthiques Nantes
In Nantes.
Workshop: ‘Dark patterns in user interfaces’.
september 2020
20 people
Designers Éthique and UX Design Brest / Tech for Good at La Cantine Numérique
In Nantes.
Workshop: ‘Does your project pass the ethics test?’.
With: Sabine Zadrozynski and Lucie Cassisa.
september 2020
10 people
Designers Éthique and UX Design Brest / France Design week
In Brest.
Workshop: ‘Does your project pass the ethics test?’.
With Sabine Zadrozynski.
july 2020
20 people
Designers Éthique and UX Design Brest / The month and a half of design
In Nantes.
Workshop: ‘Does your project pass the ethics test?’.
With Sabine Zadrozynski et Lucie Cassisa.
may 2019
20 people
Designers Éthiques
In Rennes.
Workshop: ‘How can you uphold an ethical approach when you’re not on your own?’.
Podcasts for digital professionals
august 2026
Un poil d’UX (la grande ourse)
Persuasive design: Influencing without manipulating
Listen to the podcast (La grande Ourse - in french)march 2024
Salut les designers (Lunaweb)
‘How to design without dark patterns’.
Listen to the podcast (Salut les designers – in French)Interview
2023
COP Rouen 2030
‘Gaining a better understanding of attention design and dark patterns: An interview with Flora Brochier of Designers Éthiques’
Access the resource on the DE COP Rouen website (in French)