UsabilityNJ’s First Design Slam
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 by Whitney Quesenbery| March 20, 2008 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Please join us for UsabilityNJ’s first Design Slam. Contestants will participate in a fast-paced race to create the best design solution to a real-world problem. There’s an award with your name on it!
What’s a “design slam”?
Team up with other participants to solve a design problem as part of a full-fledged hypothetical project, including appropriate client-side deliverables. You will have an opportunity to interview key players on the client’s team. The session will conclude with proposal presentations from each of the groups to the “clients” and the assembled audience. The “clients” team will choose a winner, and the winning team will receive a plethora of praise from your peers and an award.
What’s in it for me?
This is a chance for interested IAs, designers, usability practitioners, developers and marketing professionals to get their hands dirty, working side-by-side with colleagues as they tackle tough business problems in a fun and sometimes crazy environment. Knowledge transfer, technique sharing, and a social atmosphere makes this session different from a “lecture-and- Powerpoint” presentation.
If you do not want to participate because you won’t be able to get to the meeting on time or a have severe case of social phobia, fear not! We would like to have an audience during this session to play the role of users, and help choose the winning team.
Whose big idea is this?
This idea is shamelessly stolen (with permission) from the IA Summit’s IA Slam.
When and where?
Exact location not yet announced.
If you would like to participate, please RSVP to giaimojosephine at yahoo.com. There are plenty of participation spaces and spectators are welcome!
One Response to “UsabilityNJ’s First Design Slam”
Our group’s first Design Slam held on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008, was a fun-filled success! The event was graciously hosted by MISI in Woodbridge, courtesy of Ronnie Battista. Thanks again, Ronnie!
Our two teams of four participants each (the Pinks and the Blues) drafted and presented detailed design solutions using low-fidelity prototyping methods in record time.
Congratulations and our thanks are due to all the team participants who helped to make this exciting event so successful, including Erika Santos, Amy Grandov, Dawn Krauss, Jacob Alonzo, Alpa Moscarella, Daniel Ferreira, April McGee, and Hank Strub. Special thanks to Ronnie Battista of MISI for hosting, and to Yihsiu Chen and Alice Preston for ably filling the roles of stakeholders.
UsabilityNJ’s First Design Slam provided a fun-filled evening for all. We hope you will join us next year!
Josephine
Josephine M. Giaimo
Facilitator
UsabilityNJ’s First Design Slam
By Josephine M. Giaimo on Apr 6, 2008