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Compendium of idea generation methods
"Building on Martin Leith's original work, I would like this to be the most comprehensive collection of idea generation methods on the Internet."
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Andrew "Cult of the Amateur" Keen gets slapped around a bit by David "Cluetrain" Weinberger in the Wall Street Journal.
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likemind - Meet Creative People in Your City
"Talking to people with such an eclectic mix of creative talents made for a very enjoyable morning - the kind that really brings home the opportunities that all this blogging and social media are opening up."
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Separated by a common language
"Take the problem of left handed people being unable to use a pair of scissors, advertising people would approach this by telling left handed people how to use the existing scissors better whereas design people would create a new pair of scissors."
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What is an Open Creative Community?
"The barrier to entry is creative citizenship, and you are either a citizen and a participant or you are not, based on your individual relationship to that community’s interests, practices, proximity and values."
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Creative photos by Chema Madoz
Some gorgeous and strange photographs.
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"So how does a creative person increase demand for their work?"
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Some thoughts on innovation from Grant McCracken.
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"In an age of microscopic technologies and sweeping Google-earth panoramas, Will Wright, the world's most successful video-game inventor, has set out to create game (or is it the art form?) that will teach us how to really see."
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Getting High Performance out of High Potential People
"Manage for Passion. This is the key takeaway."
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"I am frankly amazed how much of their limited resources universities allocate to owning land . . . Instead of going into the real estate business, why not developers and land-lords do this and focus resources on talent."
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"You’ve got to find what’s interesting in everything, you’ve got to be good at noticing things, you’ve got to be good at listening. If you find people (and things) interesting, they’ll find you interesting."
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"The following eight strategies encourage you to think productively, rather than reproductively, in order to arrive at solutions to problems."
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"Gabora explains what happens to our minds when we’re doing creative work."
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Some great photos of ordinary objects doing unordinary things.
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Tools for Making the Crap Great
"Creating tools and formats that give people a say and getting them creatively engaged will be the secret to making the "Direct Economy" a reality."
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"The problem is that most folks, besides not believing they are special (a tragic oversight, by the way), are so dulled out or fatigued that their innate intelligence, creativity, and passion are encrusted with inertia and thereby rendered sluggish."
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10 seeeeeriously cool workplaces
Photos from ten really cool looking spaces created to inspire creativity.
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Knocking the exuberance out of employees
"If you knock out exuberance, you knock out curiosity, and curiosity is the single most important attribute in a world that requires continuous learning and unlearning just to keep up."
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"Fandom has become a mechanized process of blogging, programming playlists, shooting and distributing videos, file-sharing, and even remixing tracks. Beck’s sticker cover is just one way that he has acknowledged this shift."
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5 ways to learn to be more innovative
"1. Producing smart individuals is the first step; teaching them to collaborate is the second step"
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1000 Words of Advice for Design Teachers
Good advice for teaching design and just about anything else.
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"What if someone told Steve Jobs to “stay in the lines�, or what if Thomas Edison never tried coloring outside of a line, just to see what would happen?"
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"What would happen, I wonder, if I actually told the truth about what happens in a design process?"
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Do Talented People Need the Organization?
"Given today’s environment where tools are inexpensive and widely available, the organization needs talented people more than talented people need the organization."
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The Marketing Times Are A-Changin' [PDF]
"The marketplace of old resembled a mass of caterpillars hanging around the tree of traditional media, venturing down the branches of mass distribution, and consuming the offshoots of brand advertisers."
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Up next: 'YouTube' of video games?
Microsoft releases tools to encourage home creators of games for Xbox 360 console.
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Does process matter? Does outcome matter? Do neither matter at all?
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Everyone fears failure. But breakthroughs depend on it. The best companies embrace their mistakes and learn from them
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"A new theory suggests that creativity comes in two distinct types – quick and dramatic, or careful and quiet."
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Should Apple take focus off creative image?
"Apple may have to take the emphasis off its creative image to attract a wider market, according to Apple’s UK director Mark Rogers."
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Laws of post-network economy: Strategy is a commodity
"In a world where strategy is a commodity, creativity becomes the vital factor from which value flows. When everyone can think strategically about everything, the locus of value creation shifts from out-thinking everyone to out-creating them."
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"My views on how planners can best involve themselves in the creative process."
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"activeCollab is an easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool. Set up an environment where you, your team and your clients can collaborate on active projects using a set of simple, functional tools. 100% free!"
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"If you believe that tools influence content, and I absolutely do, then the most important thing we can do with all this technology is to try to build tools that encourage meaningful expression."
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Creativity is a discipline of learning
"Most recently I have found myself asking if this vocation can move further, and lead us to create good in our world and communities. Can we do things beyond helping companies communicate?"
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Cubicle Culture: How brainstorming works best
A look at the pros and cons of brainstorming.
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50 ways to become a better designer
The way you work can have a huge impact on your creative success. We present the best advice from leading designers on every stage of the creative process, so that you can keep clients satisfied and make the most of your talents
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How do I hire geniuses without sharing my idea?
"Ask any creative person -- especially a writer -- for the most loathsome sentence in the world. (It's 'You're past deadline.') But the second is 'I have this great idea!'"
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Momus answers the question: "What should I blog about?"
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Marissa Mayer's 9 Notions of Innovation
9 things Google does to incubate innovation.
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What Makes a Good Creative Director?
"Finding the right mesh of talent and interpersonal skills is a very difficult task, which is why good creative directors have been revered  there are so few people who can be creative and manage creative."
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"A widget implementation of the famous “Oblique Strategies� card decks from Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt."
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Academic turns city into a social experiment
A different kind of politician: "Knowledge empowers people. If people know the rules, and are sensitized by art, humor, and creativity, they are much more likely to accept change."
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"This post, however, is about how clever creatives translate different aspects of print media into advertising metaphors. How do most people see a magazine? It has color, it comes in a certain size and it is flat."
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A creative director talking about clients: "They don’t know what they want. That is our job. It was what we do. We figure that out.�
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A brainstorming tool for advertising creatives. You put in a bunch of criteria, it pops out some "thought starter" questions.
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Guy Kawasaki's 9 rules of innovation. My favorite line: "Innovation is not an event. It's a process."
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"The myth of The Great Idea is a dangerous one. It makes you constantly search and search for something that you'll probably never find."
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"Not only are mistakes a great source of insight that we can apply to next steps in our journey, sometimes they're absolutely required to make us stop and listen."
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A Harvard Business Review article about how software companies SAS implements management strategies to keep the best and brightest happy.
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How to build innovative companies
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Trish Adams, MD of Wieden + Kennedy Tokyo on the basic tenets of WK's relationship with Nike.
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"Why should successful companies be losing their best people this way? I think there are several factors involved, but perhaps the overriding factor is the energy and creativity of formidable employees chafing against company inertia and close-mindedness.
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Newsvine and How Big Companies Can Innovate
Kareem Mayan, who has and still does work at a big company, considers why they have so much trouble being innovative.
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"Here are some of the endless numbers of activities that can stimulate your brain. The one key ingredient is to have an open mind."
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"In an exclusive book excerpt from the general manager of Ideo, we meet the personality types it takes to keep creativity thriving--and the devil's advocate at bay."
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The humble screw has changed little in 2,000 years, until a stubborn engineer at Illinois Tool Works came up with a fascinating new twist.
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"OneLook's reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept."
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Writing Inspiration at the Press of a Button
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Essential bookmarks for web-designers and webdevelopers
"Essential bookmarks for web-designers and web-developers', previously updated on my web-site, have a new design, a new hierarchical structure and, of course, new web-dev-resources."
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The definitive collection of idea generation methods
"This website lists and explains every idea generation method I've encountered during the past 15 years."
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"Information and experience are like food for the creative process. It's raw substance. Information needs to be digested to brain-fat so it can re-immerge as mature creative energy."
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Structuralist Collective: The Stifling Effects of the Formulaic Approach
"Using the same approach over and over for projects, just because it's worked before or because it's comfortable, can be detrimental to your creative well being. In fact, it can be devastating."
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"At XPLANE we measure five dimensions of quality for any customer engagement. The dimensions include the quality of the output as well as the process"
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Interdisciplinary People vs. Teams?
"Creativity by committee can be doomed to fail if the groups themselves are not chosen carefully by some who knows the talents and the personalities involved."
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Interview With Niku Banaie, Director Of Innovation At Naked
"Over the course of a 2 part interview IF discusses with Niku Banaie, the director of innovations, about advertising, Naked and their approach to creativity."
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Essential Resources for Creativity (163 techniques + 30 tips + books!)
"Techniques (163 of them!) by Mycoted should help you with creative thinking - those are the toolbox for you when you get stuck on developing your ideas."
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Innovation: Throwing Design Rules Out The Window
"Sometimes rules should be thrown out the window. Often the most valuable lesson in art and design schools is ignored."
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gapingvoid: "Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted."
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What creativity is for Steve jobs? It is all about experience connectivity
"When you ask a creative person how they did something, they may feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after awhile. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had
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Co-opting the creative revolution
Digital technology is providing people with the tools to produce and share content like never before, and it is set to throw the relationship between them and institutions into turmoil, say experts.
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"Much like many of you I not only got into personal productivity to get things doneâ€â€I want to do great things."
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On Moleskines: "Even if you're carrying it to another boring staff meeting to take notes about sales projections, the notebook makes for a fantastic emblem of creative possibility."
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"Known for the Air Jordan and Miller High Life ads, the agency's creative director Jelly Helm was recently featured in "Men's Health" magazine offering five rules of creativity."
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"This essay provides a primer on idea pitches, and although most of my experience is in the tech-sector, I pitch to you that the advice here will be relevant to pitching . . ."
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Switch! - Cross-Disciplinary Learning
"Any student of creativity or innovation knows that changing disciplines seems to be a way of keeping 'fresh' and getting new ideas."
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"He's away from his desk" is something that's now true of New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell.
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Writing Tool #50: The Writing Process
"Sniff. Explore. Collect. Focus. Select. Order. Draft. Revise."
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To-Done: "The underlying theme of my thoughts, the rails upon which this train rode, is my fundamental belief that technology should work for me, not the other way around."
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How to give and receive criticism
"Good criticism serves one purpose: to give the creator of the work more perspective and help them make their next set of choices."
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"But the minute you think you know, the minute you go - oh, yeah, we've been here before, no sense reinventing the wheel - you stop learning, stop questioning, and start believing in your own wisdom, you're dead."
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New Scientist: "There are lots of tricks, techniques and habits, as well as changes to your lifestyle, diet and behaviour that can help you flex your grey matter and get the best out of your brain cells."
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Some quick tips that might help one become more productive
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What Today's Students Can Learn from IDEO
Eide Neurlearning: "What IDEO may help specifically with is a more systematic approach to teaching and encouraging problem solving."
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Twelve Ways to Think Differently
Twelve methods that will exercise parts of your brain that rarely get it, and make you more creative and better able to understand the world.
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An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
Written in 1998, the Incomplete Manifesto is an articulation of statements that exemplify Bruce Mau's beliefs, motivations and strategies. It also articulates how the BMD studio works.
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Dream teams thrive on mix of old and new blood
"New team members clearly added creative spark and critical links to the experience of the entire industry."
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You can do anything - but not everything.
David Allen, one of the world's most influential thinkers on personal productivity, offers his unique advice on how to keep up the pace -- without wearing yourself down.
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Noise Between Stations: "So how do we become more creative? There’s no easy fix. To be creative, new neural pathways need to be constructed by, well, being creative. Kraft suggests four steps for doing that"
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10 ways to tackle your goals and projects
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10 life lessons from a designer
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Danny O'Brien and Merlin Mann: "Think of your life in terms of things that you can choose to do or not -- your job isn't about filing."
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10 Ways To Get the Creative Juices Flowing
A good list of ways to get your brain working creatively and work through a problem
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Jeffrey Veen: Blinking Out Design
Jeffrey Veen: "Rather than figure out how to design for your audience, design for yourself after becoming like your audience. At that point, I find, snap decisions become good decisions."
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Thinking About Design Thinking
Design thinking is "Finding Alternatives . . . Ideation and Prototyping . . . Wicked Problems . . . A Wide Range of Influences . . . Emotion"
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Creating Passionate Users: "The more we learn about the brain, the more we learn about learning, and learning is the key. Not just as something to get better at (i.e. learning to learn), but learning as exercise for the brain."
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Paul Graham writes a short essay on how to write
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'I've literally just heard the 500th Strokes clone'
Guardian Unlimited: "Beck talks to Dan Glaister about his rental car, bathrooms and the struggle to be original"
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Ontology is Overrated: Links, Tags, and Post-hoc Metadata
Clay Shirky: "The Web's main virtue, in handling data, is to transmute organization from an a priori, content-based judgment to one that can be ad hoc, context-based, socially embedded, and constantly altered."
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Logical and precise, left-brain thinking gave us the Information Age. Now comes the Conceptual Age - ruled by artistry, empathy, and emotion.
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Think tank: Cultural diversity breeds creativity
Our cities can profit from the creativity that cultural diversity brings
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A new study will change how you generate ideas and decide who's really creative in your company.
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The following eight strategies encourage you to think productively, rather than reproductively, in order to arrive at solutions to problems.
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Hack your way out of writer’s block
Some creative solutions
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She was the champion of the music industry. He was the voice of the people. It was a deathmatch made in heaven - but they found common ground.
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