#Tips: How to peel and stick a sticky note

Finding your inner peace with Sticky’s 😜😇

As designers we use sticky notes quite often in sprints, brainstorming and in many design and agile exercises as it is convenient, modular, collaborative, satisfying, and for all the good reasons.

But how many times did you loose your inner peace because the sticky’s didn’t stay at the place where you want them to be, falling down to gravity. 😤

You don’t need tapes or glues to attain your inner peace with sticky’s. You need only to SEE, FEEL and PEEL it the right way.

Before we master the method of doing it right, let’s see what makes the sticky’s to fall.

Pulling up the sticky from bottom ruins the adhesive (sticky side) of the notes. So the sticky bends and it falls to the ground. ⬆️ ❌

So we have to peel the sticky the way it won’t ruin the adhesive or bend it. One known technique is to peel it from the sides (i.e) from right to left or left to right, which would not ruin the adhesive and also the sticky wont bend in the process, which makes the sticky to last long on the surface. People also use top down approach which is tricky when the adhesive is strong. ➡️ ✅ ⬅️

Anything is possible when you have inner peace

Stickies are one of the greatest asset in designers tool kit which helps us to diverge and converge ideas, information and what not.

Additional Tips:

Avoid buying darker color stickies as the legibility is very less. 🖍
A square sticky can be a rotated to get some extra space, write condition in a flow chart.

If you have some additional tips and tricks using stickies comment below will keep this post updated. ✌️ 🐼

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