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We print coloured lines on a white card, so we get a sense of colour but your words appear in clean white spaces.

For agile contexts we wanted to maximise the visibility of your words, so we swapped the design over. Lines and colour – In a typical Index card, coloured paper is used with the same grey lines.The greater thickness also expresses the high esteem we hold for the work we do. Blu-tack is nice and sticky but causes the card to crease each time it is moved, so your cards take a battering. In agile contexts cards are repeatedly handled and re-positioned. Thickness – We increased the thickness from an average of 170gsm to 250gsm to make the cards more durable. So we changed five things about the Index Card to improve the user experience for the practitioner. Originally, they did not even need to stick to anything. And this is because index cards are designed to be stored in drawers and read at arm’s length. Were these purposes being fulfilled? Not in their entirety, no. be stuck and remain stuck on a board for considerable periods of time.capture a user story with a title and a story point.In Agile, Index Cards have a number of roles to play. So why did we, in the Agile Stationery team, think of changing these Index Cards? We believed that a few simple changes would significantly improve the experience of an agile practitioner. Often Index Cards capture user stories with smaller post-it notes capturing the tasks associated with that user story. Agile’s iconic columnar boards are created using Index Cards and post it notes. In the world of Agile, they are the bread and butter for an agile practitioner. Yes, the first Google was based on Index Cards!

My favourite application of Index Cards was two friends Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine who, in 1895, used index cards to create a Search Engine. Later they took off in library catalogues and revolutionised the way libraries were organised. Going back to 1735, their original purpose was organizing and classifying organisms and minerals in Carl Linnaeus’ scientific collection.

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you think about index cards? Taking notes, making a to-do list, flash cards or even doodling.