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I immediately thought about intro of this talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes We think that we do something correctly and then by accident we learn simple change that improves it. Nice share.
> "If you peel post-its from the side, they don’t curl up." Right, they curl to the side instead. Though possibly not as much if you peel close to the adhesive.
Article missed to mention that the glue is assumed to be along the top edge in both cases.
Why do so many people here think that the post-its get roated? It no additional information is given, everyone should assume the roation is the same.
If we look at the left picture, that cue is there, with an illusion of resistance on the left edge.
I guess IDEOers all use Post-Its the "wrong" way according to this article. Yet somehow we manage to stick them to boards and move them around without issue... The only problem is when new hires try to stick Post-Its to whiteboards—don't do that!
If you want to peel the Post-It from the side rather than the bottom, go for it, but there is no reason to write on the Post-It sideways and stick it with the adhesive going vertically. When that happens accidentally in a brainstorm, people literally apologize.
I work at IDEO, where I've written at least 10,000 Post-Its. Especially before COVID, we would use them all day, for weeks at a time. I guess IDEOers all use Post-Its the "wrong" way according to this article. Yet somehow we manage to stick them to boards and move them around without issue... The only problem is when new hires try to stick Post-Its to whiteboards—don't do that! If you want to peel the Post-It from th…
I don't get it, you are still applying the force in the same direction. I mean if you rotate the 'wrong' picture by 90 degrees you will see that they are both the same thing
Article missed to mention that the glue is assumed to be along the top edge in both cases.
I work at IDEO, where I've written at least 10,000 Post-Its. Especially before COVID, we would use them all day, for weeks at a time. I guess IDEOers all use Post-Its the "wrong" way according to this article. Yet somehow we manage to stick them to boards and move them around without issue... The only problem is when new hires try to stick Post-Its to whiteboards—don't do that! If you want to peel the Post-It from th…
Peel with the adhesive on the side, then rotate 90 degrees to write with the adhesive on the top?
Edit: I was wrong—I see now the article is NOT implying that you write the note 90° rotated. But I agree with others that the photos are not communicating this well.