Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Evil by Design
Like Nir Eyal's "Hooked" but with more pictures, and evil.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Evil by Design launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Leverage human fallibility to create powerful UIs
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Dark fantasy based on modernized classical myth
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Life Design for People With Too Many Interests and Talents
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Culturally Articulated Unconscious
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Wonderbook▲78The Illustrated guide to creating imaginative fiction
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Gutshot: Stories▲128Isolation and coupling are pushed to their dark edges
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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A great source of design inspiration
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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A notebook for creative kleptomaniacs
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Looking at the Intrusive Author, Suspense, and more!
2015 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →
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Perhaps a better corporate motto than "Don't be evil"
2015 · gsb.stanford.edu · its alternatives →
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A harrowing deep dive into the dark underbelly of tech
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Beautifully illustrated and free to read online!
2014 · bookofbadarguments.com · its alternatives →
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Perhaps monsters aren't scary. Maybe they're misunderstood!
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Overcoming the obstacles between vision and reality
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The history behind one of the most dangerous numbers
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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