# Authentication / User Experience

> "authentication" (security-core layer) is traded against "UX" (performance-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "UX" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Record: `tension:authentication-user-experience`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-authentication-user-experience

## tensions-with

- [Authentication](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/authentication.md)
- [User Experience](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/user-experience.md)