Post-it notes
Notas adhesivas Post-it
- Date
- 1968-1980 · confidence high
- Place
- 3M, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
- Credited to
- Spencer Silver (repositionable adhesive, 1968) and Art Fry (application, 1974); national launch in 1980
- People
- 👤 Arthur Fry1931–👤 Spencer Silver1941–2021
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Paper with a microsphere adhesive that sticks and unsticks without leaving a mark, born from a laboratory failure. It became an office, design and visual-thinking tool.
What it led to
- The culture of accidental innovation and 3M's 15 per cent free time
- Design and agile methodologies with notes on the wall
- Digital notes and virtual boards
Built on
- Adhesive tape (Scotch tape)1925–1930
- acrylic adhesive chemistry
- paper
Made possible
- kanban boards
- digital sticky notes