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Chesterton's Umbrella

Chesterton's Umbrella

Fix the behaviour, not the object.

The mistaken urge to redesign something that works in order to solve a problem that was never about the thing itself. The SENZ umbrella solves for wind. The real problem was never the umbrella; it was forgetting to bring one. Before you redesign the object, redesign your relationship to it.

TL;DR

The impulse to redesign a functional object when the real problem is how people use it.