HUMAN-CENTRED DESIGN HAS GROWN UP. IT'S TIME WE DID TOO

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Early UX pioneers like Steve Krug and Don Norman championed usability and frictionless design, but this success helped create today's attention economy, where seamless experiences often enable manipulation, data extraction, and reduced user autonomy. A new era—driven in part by EU regulations—redefines design as protecting human rights and societal wellbeing, shifting the goal from helping users complete tasks to ensuring systems respect, inform, and preserve human freedom.