Why Doesn't This Exist #1: Adventures in Design Thinking

Okay, it's time for a testimonial. I haven't been writing for awhile, but this morning I simply had to. A thought struck me that was accelerating about 9.98 m/s/s, roughly the same speed as the box of beads that hit the ground this morning when I casually walked past it. Luckily it wasn't fatal. Ideas can hurt when they travel that fast, but this one didn't have far to fall. 

Image courtesy of the Texas Bead Store.
Please note that this isn't the specific bead box that
gave me so much trouble; but they all follow similar
design conventions, in my experience. Apologies to
the Texas Bead Store if yours works perfectly.
This is not libel. Please do not sue me.

Naturally, it (the box of beads) snapped open on impact and scattered beads everywhere, which I then spent the next 15 minutes picking up one at a time, because that's how you pick beads up when they scatter all over the ground like cockroaches fleeing a light bulb. At about 2 minutes in, I got to thinking: why? 

Why hasn't someone built a better bead box? Forget the better mousetrap, the one we have works fine. Why do bead boxes always fly open and scatter beads everywhere if you drop them? Why do they have those plastic breakaway hinges that just make things worse? Is it a requirement? Is it a limitation of the clear plastics that are used? Or have we just accepted this blindly and failed to demand a better bead box?

I can't possibly be the first person to ask this question, can I? Can anyone show me a bead box that stays shut and doesn't break if you drop it? 

So I'm asking myself why this didn't come up in testing at some point, and it hits me (at about 9.98 meters/second/second, again - hooray for physics humor) that the reason it probably doesn't come up in testing is that the designer - whoever they were - never bothered to drop it when it's full of beads. The reason being simple: No one wants to pick up beads one at a time, even if it will eventually result in a better bead box (I mentioned this to my mother, and she pointed out that they'd just hire someone to do it for minimum wage and be done with it, and that they wouldn't run off to write blog entries about why someone didn't design a better bead box). 

As one might gather from the title, this is intended to become a regular feature here at Destiny Follows Design, to be released approximatively, "whenever I am struck by inspiration or by someone else's lack thereof."