Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

# Clear goals (expectations and rules are discernable).
# Concentrating and focusing, a high degree of concentra ...
# A loss of the feeling of self-consciousness, the mergi ...
# Distorted sense of time - our subjective experience of ...
... ally rewardi

As I coach new developers, I've taken to scribbling out ... diagram for visualizing the creative process again and a... coffee-ringed napkins. In order to limit my future abus...
The conversation usually starts with the following state ...
And when co

Berlekamp et al quote G. W. Leibniz:
The game called Solitaire pleases me much. I take it in ...
This quote fills my heart with humility as I find it by ...

Brainstorming is a widely used technique for groups to d... fresh perspectives on an issue, problem or project, and ... taught and used by team leaders and consultants working ... study by researchers at Texas A&M University, and publis...
The researc

Charissa Borroff
Born 1st May, 1977, Nottinghamshire, UK
"I draw landscapes in Charcoal, paint abstracts, and I'v ...
I grew up in Sherwood Forest. My family moved into Sherw ...
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Creative activities often follow a double-hump model. At... all the obvious ideas. These aren't a waste of time; som...
There's a drop in energy between humps One and Two, as w ...
Bad ideas are not boring, meh proposals. Bad is not the ...
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Creativity is akin to insanity, say scientists who have ... the mind works.
Brain scans reveal striking similarities in the thought ...
Both groups lack important receptors used to filter and ...
It could be this uninhibited processing that allows crea

DAB02: Anti Dogmatic Design
Instructors:
Prof. Dr. M. Rauterberg
Faculty Industrial Design, Technical University Eindhoven
... ediate to advanced level (depending on your commitment).

Digital Creativity is a major peer-reviewed journal at t... the creative arts and digital technologies. It carries a... interest to those involved in the practical task of maki... software for creative purposes. By the term �creative ... such discip

do stupid things, but do them with enthusiasm

Doug Engelbart is best known for inventing the mouse and... however his greatest innovations have been in the vision... devised for bootstrapping the innovation, creating a ver... turbo charged learning curve in his lab out of which eme...
Thus emerge

dr mc schraefel has been awarded a Royal Academy of Engi... Research Fellowship, sponsored by Microsoft Research, to... to discovery for scientists. A vital part of this resear... quest to improve quality of life for scientists through ... information

G. Polya, How to Solve It
Summary taken from G. Polya, "How to Solve It", 2nd
ed., Princeton University Press, 1957, ISBN 0-69 ...

I had to laugh this morning while reading the Ottawa Cit... crafty yet bafflingly incompetent vandal described as "H... pack, but the plastic thingy that holds them together is... spin-off of the saying "He's one can short of a full six...
This chapte

I work on higher-order cognitive operations that disting ...

In a recent blog post, Ikka warns that it is all too eac... ‘trapped’ in mindsets and personal routines that shu... potential serendipitous experiences. I think we’ve all... traps at some point in our lives; being too busy to be a...
In this blo

In their book, Idealized Design: How to Solve Tomorrow's... (Wharton School Publishing), authors Russell L. Ackoff, ... Herbert J. Addison build upon a simple notion. They argu... get to the best outcome is to imagine what the ideal sol...
Idealized d

June 11, 2010, 1:24 pm
The Defense of Computers, the Internet and Our Brains
By NICK BILTON
brain scan while on the computerCharles Baldwin for The ...
... and conversation, is the quintessential place to learn.

Most of the people I know, friends or students, are too ... they prefer to not even try. They spend their lives tryi... and thinking that this is “success”. They can go on ... know what they are capable of or how unique they are jus... unfriendly

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is... exciting discoveries. Milne, A. A.

Palo Alto, 2003. Keep people at the center of your work!... help. Look at what they do. Learn from the facts you gat... yourself! Ideo has become a leader in design by keeping ... center of the design process. These cards show some of t... to inspire

Remove birds from poetry, Aldous Huxley once said, and w... cast aside half of the English canon.
Now, the impact of birdsong on our creativity and on our ...
The study will examine the psychological impact of being ...

Sorry, you can't have my magical idea chair, but if you ... let you use it for a few minutes

Swarm Creativity introduces a powerful new concept-Colla... Networks, or COINs. Its aim is to make the concept of CO... among business managers as any methodology to enhance qu... competitive advantage. The difference though is that COI...
Through rea

The flow state has been defined as "an intrinsic reward ... in an activity (Csikszentmihalyi, 1977), an optimal stat... there is a balance between the perceived challenges of a... person’s skills or capabilities for action (Csikszentm... a centering

The Journal of Creative Behavior is our quarterly academ... the most current research in creative thinking. For near... has been the benchmark scientific periodical in the fiel... to date cutting-edge ideas about creativity in education... business, a

The subtitle to Kida’s book is “The 6 Basic Mistakes...
A skeptic is just a person who wants to see and evaluate ...
In this book, he winnows the common problems that get in ...
* We prefer stories to statistics.
... * We have faulty memories

The well-established Creativity Research Journal publish... scholarly research capturing the full range of approache... creativity--behavioral, clinical, cognitive, cross-cultu... educational, genetic, organizational, psychoanalytic, ps... social. Int

This is a general category of Creativity and Innovation ... listed in alphabetical order. Like most tools these crea... all have their good and bad points. I like to think of t... techniques as tools in a toolbox in much the same way as... home for DI

Tomm Inns quoted at D21 meeting Feb 2008:
"plans are nothing,planning is everyting" Eisenhower