I’d originally intended to present something about BDD, but the slides and demo never really came together so I didn’t really want to inflict them on people who could have gone to a better session. I was going to risk bad karma by not presenting at all (there were plenty of empty slots, so I don’t think I’d have been the only one).
At some point in the early hours of Sunday, trying to sleep in a very warm room where the lights kept randomly coming on, I thought of another idea – could a bunch of us come up with 101 uses for an index card (something I’ve been planning to try myself for a while)? It would be obvious from the title that it was just a bit of fun, but maybe ew might learn something along the way about the techniques that people used which used index cards in some way.
Unfortunately (I like to think purely because I posted the session on the board at lunchtime on Sunday!) only two people turned up, beating my record of four from BarcampBrighton. We did manage to get a third of the way though, coming up with 34 uses:
- CRC cards
- Shopping list
- Werewolf
- Release planning/User stories
- Enumerating the uses of an index card
- Taking notes
- Essential use cases
- Paper prototyping
- Bookmark
- Funnel for salt, sugar etc
- “Indexing stuff” (ie whatever they were originally designed for)
- Emergency business card
- Barcamp/unconference scheduling
- Playing 1001 Blank White Cards
- Inflicting paper cuts on an enemy
- Making an animation flip-book
- House of cards
- Making noises with bicycle spokes
- Drug pouches (I have no idea what this means!)
- Roaching
- Paper planes (although our test model was prone to nosedives)
- Cue cards
- Flash cards
- Postcard
- Beermat
- Recipes
- To-do lists
- Lighting fires
- Setting fire to, in order to satisfy the requirement to collect “fire” in a scavenger hunt
- Bulletin board advert
- Very simple origami
- Signage
- Action Man billboards
- Blocking CCTV cameras
Paul also added “toothpick”, via a Flickr comment.
[tags]barcampbrighton3, indexcards, 101[/tags]