ABSTRACT
This Chapter raises an old question about users' creativity, but respecifies it. It aims to show that creative acts are taking place constantly, but only a few develop into permanent resources of action. It focuses on how the small discoveries happen and become stable features not only of individual action but also of social action. The question posed in the Chapter has its origins in an observation made during Mobile Image. When people first got multimedia phones in their hands and started to explore their expressive potentials, they largely relied on age-old practices like greetings and questions. However, small discoveries take place even when people design their messages with such age-old practices. Through small discoveries, people may also come to discover ways to use less obvious technical features of the device. The Chapter demonstrates that people make discoveries even in ordinary, age-old practices like riddles, and come to develop more elaborate ways of utilizing these practices in action over time.
