One of the fables that floats around UX teams is that of the US space program and its quest for a pen that could be used in anti-gravity.
They reportedly spent million dollars developing a high-tech writing utensil with ink that remained solid until the flow of writing and a pressurized chamber that made it useful upside-down. The Russian cosmonauts, however, simply brought pencils.
Though this story isn’t wholly true, it shines light on the necessity of understanding the larger picture. The space pen did make it into orbit and was a privately-funded accomplishment in engineering...
https://thenextweb.com/uxdesign/2016/02/03/8-habits-of-veteran-ux-designers/
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