status-quo-bias

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Status quo bias is the tendency for people to prefer the current state of things and avoid changes, even when change could bring better results. Understanding this bias is essential for product design, user migration, and adoption strategies.

| Learning new interface | High cognitive effort required | | Uncertainty about result | Risk feels larger than it is | | Breaking habits | Automatic behaviors disrupted | | Decision fatigue | Choosing to change is itself effort |

| Moving users to new UI | Gradual rollout with opt-out | | Deprecating features | Show replacement value before removing | | Platform changes | Data migration handled automatically | | Pricing updates | Grandfather existing users |

Understand and design for users' preference for current state over change. Use when planning migrations, introducing new features, designing defaults, or overcoming resistance to product adoption. Source: flpbalada/my-opencode-config.

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