Audit a Checkout Flow in Four Passes

A commerce team asks for a quick review of a new checkout. The price changes late, a warranty is preselected, and the final button says Complete setup instead of Pay now. Material information, choice architecture, taxonomy label, mechanism repair The common shortcut is to say make it clearer and miss that each dark-pattern mechanism needs a different repair. Before Late information, tilted choice, ambiguous consequence. After Early disclosure, active choice, consequence-first action label. Pass 1 List material information the user needs before acting. Hidden or late information often creates the first risk signal. Pass 2 Map defaults, hierarchy, and effort…

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