class: center, middle, inverse # What is originality? --- class: left, middle, font30 > I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense. .right[ **Henry Ford** ] --- class: left, middle, font30 ## Steve Jobs, Ideo, and the Mouse > ... You know, [the Xerox mouse] is a mouse that cost three hundred dollars to build and it breaks within two weeks. Here's your design spec: Our mouse needs to be manufacturable for less than fifteen bucks. It needs to not fail for a couple of years, and I want to be able to use it on Formica and my bluejeans... .right[ **Steve Jobs** ] - *From that meeting, I went to Walgreens, which is still there, at the corner of Grant and El Camino in Mountain View, and I wandered around and bought all the underarm deodorants that I could find, because they had that ball in them. I bought a butter dish. That was the beginnings of the mouse...* --- class: left, middle, font30 ## What was original? > If you lined up Engelbart's mouse, Xerox's mouse, and Apple's mouse, you would not see the **serial reproduction of an object**. You would see the **evolution of a concept**. <https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/05/16/creation-myth> --- class: center, middle, font30 ## What is originality? <iframe width="760" height="415" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wq5D43qAsVg" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> <!-- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/01/11/the-flash-of-genius Is another good example--> --- class: left, middle, font30 # How does this conversation about originality connect to building a board game? ### [Board Game Project Details](https://byuidesignthinking.github.io/course_guide/projects/p2.html) --- class: left, middle, font30 # Mid-semester Interviews - [How do I earn my grade?](https://byuidesignthinking.github.io/course_guide/#how-do-i-earn-my-grade) - [Sign up for a time](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KXPpA4sN9ZRajkVDI7dizxL5N0ZIpTvKFtRNeeC7228/edit?usp=sharing) ### Items covered in the mid-semester interview (5-minutes) 1. Your reported hours on Harvest (byui.harvestapp.com) 2. Conversation about your readings (I would love to see notes or a list of what you have read) 3. Discuss your key learnings and goals for the remainder of the semester. --- class: left, middle, font30 #### Today - Have your reading discussion (10 minutes) - Set your project walls - Work out empathy interview plans (Th: my children & friends) #### Next 15 days - Originality/Remix investigations (How games work?) - Empathy interviews with child and parent (thick data) - Personas, problem statements, and How might we (HMW) #### Following 20 days - Ideation and Prototyping - User interviews and interactions with the prototype