Should I add Effective / Expensive feature?
I’m experimenting with effective / expensive widgets when editing mitigations:
Effective has ?
/ low
/ medium ![]()
/ high ![]()
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. (What’s better emojis? I started with
but it requires skin colors…)
Expensive has ?
/ low
/ medium ![]()
/ high ![]()
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. (Also not the perfect emoji, because not all expense is money…)
Pro: Educates that feasibility and costs matter.
Pro: Educates that not all protection is 100%.
Pro: Educates that some mitigations have good ROI.
Contra: With the words of Github, “Anything added dilutes everything else.”
Should I merge the feature?
Context
- Threatpad already has a style for threats and mitigation which can be
done /
favorite / normal style /
rejected. This educates about propose-then-choose flow and that only done mitigation really counts. It’s only visible when editing. - Threatpad already has “How likely?” / “How bad?” which can be ?
/ low
/ medium 
/ high 

. This educates about qualitative risk assessment. It is already shown in the threat view. - All the select features are designed so that they don’t annoy you when you don’t use them.
