Here is a decision making matrix..
Having one can help us reflect (slow down) and make better decisions...
Here's how this one works:
It has 4 quadrants as you can see...
More important Choices
A) Attentive Choice + Low Confidence: The decision you need to get right, the one that matters, and the one where you should take more time to reflect and make.
B) Attentive or Inattentive + High Confidence: The decision is important, but I'm confident I can make the right choice.
Less Important Choices
C)Inattentive Choice + Low Confidence: I'm not sure how to make the decisions, but it's not high stakes, so it doesn't matter as much.
D)Inattentive Choice + High Confidence: I'm confident I can make the right decision, but if I don't get it right, it's not a huge deal.
The bottom quadrants C and D - where there are less important choices are the area where things like defaults, framing, or social norms could work - this can make sense when we don't want to use mental effort to choose something.
Make sure that in your decisions you account for context, as in many cases context is ignored (Buying a Yogurt vs Buying a House isn't the same, so that context is important)
Think about using the matrix in your business, design, innovation, and change projects or even in personal decisions...
The matrix was created by Elina Halonen in one of her blog posts (which talked about nudging and decisions making and which looked at a paper by Löfgren, Å., & Nordblom, K. (2020), who originally wrote about the matrix)