A person laughing with their eyes closed, Dutch landscape in the background

Reading a book on Bijlmer Bajes (a famous Amsterdam prison), and I’m chuckling at the architect’s decision not to add bars to the windows, but instead rely on “wire alarm” in the glass. Obviously it resulted in a lot of prison breaks, but what fascinates me is that the user story changed completely from a prison guard aiming to keep a prisoner from breaking out to them aiming to be alerted to a breakout attempt.

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Hello, I'm Zinzy Waleson Geene, a diary-keeper, designer, and community builder yelling at Internet clouds since 1997.