DEFINING ETHICAL DESIGN FOR MACHINES

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

DESIGN.md files let AI follow documented design rules, and accessibility fits that format because WCAG requirements are measurable and built on decades of consensus. Broader ethical pillars — autonomy, transparency, privacy, inclusion, and well-being — resist the same treatment, since spelling them out would demand thousands of concrete rules. A modest first step is one testable rule, such as requiring no more steps to cancel a service than to sign up.