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Essential Resources for Creativity

I found this link through Smashing Magazine – by Leon Ho called Essential Resources for Creativity (163 techniques + 30 tips + books!).

Basically it’s an old list of ways to generate ideas. Written a while back (well, more than a year ago), it links to a lot of great brainstorming / idea generation techniques, including Brainsketching, Critical Path Diagrams, Brainwriting and Using Crazy Ideas.

Ho posts links to some books as well, but all of the creative techniques are links that come from mycoted - a site dedicated to “improving Creativity and Innovation for solving problems worldwide” and boasts itself as “a central repository for Creativity and Innovation on the Internet as a summary of tools, techniques, mind exercises, puzzles, book reviews etc, that is open to all – and can be written by all.”

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