Multiple solutions to one problem do exist.

An interesting article from yesterday's Globe and Mail on the problem of needles and possible solutions researchers are coming up with to solve said problem. A fear of needles is one of the most common phobias of people - that and public speaking are probably rated the highest (hopefully there'll be no way to combine those two to create a whole new phobia, but that's another entry).



It's interesting to look at the solutions people are coming up with, and to think how user involved - or even user testing! - will play a role. What lesson to draw out of the experience (pardon the pun)? My own take on a metaphor - perhaps that in the marketplace of ideas, the person open to only one possible solution or approach is a pauper, not a king.