Satisficing
I recently finished a book I was reading (Virgin Suicides) and decided to request some of the web development books Amazon has been recommending. They all managed to arrive today and I started with Don’t Make Me Think. It was a nice quick read but it manages to fit a lot of good points. Most are common sense but it helps to see them again as they can be lost in debates with librarian 
One of the ideas is that of “satisfice” which is a cross between satisfying and sufficing. It describes the fact that many people will choose the first reasonable item instead of the best one. I was going to write about how this applies to libraries but there is no need. Roy Tennant pointed out in #code4lib that he had already written an article for LJ. I recommend reading the article and then reading the book.
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