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Treat the default as a decision, not empty space
Make consequential defaults visible to the chooser and use explicit active choice when no preset option is safely appropriate for most people.
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Expose the default before you accept a consequential choice
Doing nothing is still a choice when somebody else designed what doing nothing means.
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A default is convenient only when choosing for people by inaction is defensible.
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