<ul><li>High-stakes tasks should match the mental effort required with their importance in order to avoid oversimplification and potential dangers.</li><li>Measuring the Task Importance-to-Attention Ratio (TIAR) can help in balancing mental effort with the significance of the task.</li><li>Digital products often overlook the importance of mental cost, leading to oversimplified high-stakes actions and unnecessarily complex low-stakes tasks.</li><li>Future trends suggest the development of adaptive interfaces, attention budgets, and cognitive measurements to optimize user experiences and respect human attention limitations.</li></ul>

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