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Archive: Of Interest

The of interest section of the home page changes every few days. Old links are organized in categories and archived here.

About 2.009
- traits of successful 2.009 projects
- 10 tips for 2.009
- 2.009, a graphic novel
- flashback: 2.009 project gallery
- Elika, classroom to showroom
Fire! fall 2010 (.mov, runtime 3 minutes)

Creativity
- creativity, why it matters
- the creativity crisis
- group brainstorming tutorial
- creativity cheat sheet
- 6 design innovation patterns
- where ideas come from (book)

Class activities
- gorilla and banana (.mov)
- short circuit, the skit (.mov)
- assembly review materials
- team codes-of-conduct
- critique, worse and better (.mov)
- origami ball: time estimates
- fruit specs!
- teardown in 60 seconds (.mov)
- product ideas generated during in-class brainstorming
- treasure hunt results
- 2.009 theme reveal
- idea fair abstracts/presentations
- 2.009 balloon towers (.mov)
- portfolio tutorial (.pdf)

Ethics
- pirate's code of ethics, wikipedia
- ASME code of ethics (.pdf)
- B school ethics
- piracy rates

Games
- red square. Can you survive?
- tic-tac-toe
- test your reaction time!
- take the idiot test
- angry birds in China
- what's the trick?
- asteroids!
- frogger
- simon
- color test
- ball drop. Use mouse to draw

Marketing
- how projects work
- timekiller app

Meetings
- running a meeting primer

Nature
- monarch chrysalis
- timescapes!
- two headed snakes

News
- angry birds on MIT quad

Observation and users
- user observation guidelines
- observation: a short tutorial
- focus group!
- changing behavior. Fun theory
- understanding customers

References
- death by powerpoint. 13 common mistakes.
- 2.009 product naming primer
- 2.009 final presentation pointers
- sketching
- 2010 final presentation compendium
- a deconstructed final presentation
- inattentional blindness
- awareness test
- optical illusions
- motion illusions
- rotating illusion
- Gestalt psychology
- yo-wup!
- collective intelligence
- house of quality
- Gantt chart software
- sketching tutorials (up to 2 pt)
- plastics types by symbol
- plastics identification
- costing guides (certs required)

Safety
- workplace safety

Sketch models
- wind sculpture
- cardboard cameras
- cardboard models

Technology
- 9 thanksgiving patents
- knock detecting lock
- crutch design
- stackable chairs
- dam removal
- big dog v1
- big dog v2
- aging empathy suit
- on-the-go: car clothes washer
- 201k cell phone bill
- the homer
- singing robot
- jet man
- apple: secrets of success
- pumpkin chunkin
- 2.009 project 6dot on kickstarter. Help by September 9, 2011!
- Sony Walkman story
- product hacking
- sheep art
- wooden mirror
- big dog v1
- big dog v2

Traditions
- thanksgiving
- 2.009 pumpkin gallery
- halloween and candy

Visualization
- popular names visualization!
- Tufte information visualization
- time lapse from space
- visualization
- dyson assembly visualization
- information is beautiful