Flora Brochier

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.

Access the resource on the Designers Éthiques website

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.

Access the guide on the Designers Éthiques website

General public communications

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

Professional communications

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’.

Watch the replay (YouTube – in French)

october 2025

200 people

Nantes Devfest

In Nantes
Lecture: ‘Notification: challenges and possible solutions’

Watch the replay (YouTube – in French)

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

Watch the replay on the Paris Web website (in French)

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!’

Watch the replay (YouTube – in French)

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

Watch the replay (Peertube – in French)

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’

mai 2022

30 personnes

UX Design Brest

À Brest
Conférence : « La manipulation en design : ces techniques qui influencent nos choix »

Workshops

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

august 2026

Un poil d’UX (la grande ourse)

‘Why do even good designers create dark patterns?’

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)