Dark Patterns Digital, LCA is a technology worker cooperative built with the goal of creating software that measures up to the best practices of the software industry. As members of Dark Patterns Digital, we believe that the best way to accomplish that goal is to leverage well-gelled teams; our teams are designed to be long-lasting and energizing for their members.
Dark Patterns Digital is registered as a Limited Cooperative Association (LCA) under the laws of the State of Colorado. As a cooperative, we adhere to the seven cooperative principles:
- Open and Voluntary Membership
- Democratic Member Control
- Members’ Economic Participation
- Autonomy and Independence
- Education, Training, and Information
- Cooperation Among Cooperatives
- Concern for Community
We believe that the best way to ask someone to take ownership of a problem is ultimately to offer them actual ownership; as a cooperative, we literally do that for our entire team. With this approach, every member of Dark Patterns Digital is fully invested in the success of every project we take on.
Dark Patterns Digital is founded by industry veterans with decades of experience; we have been though multiple startups, worked on many software projects, and led various-sized teams. We have the expertise to go from board room to the server room, identifying the hidden positive and negative patterns.
We earned our expertise by being workers, and we continue to pursue the improvement of our craft. When automating releases, building libraries, designing a user interface, or simply writing documentation, we seek to understand the subtle patterns that create the most successful projects.
We see trends that the technology industry is taking: Software is getting more complex, and the requirements to be productive as an engineer are increasing, too. We believe that it is essential that we find the common patterns and bulid tooling around them in order to elevate the newer members of our profession to be productive.
When building that tooling, we seek to make it flexible to work for many others within the industry. We believe that by providing tools and services for others that are approachable and open-source, we can make the best software easy to write and maintain for both industry veterans and newcomers alike.
