About Design Jams
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History
The first public Design Jam took place on the 20th November 2010 at the campus of City University London, Clerkenwell, London. It was supported by Mozilla Labs, City University's HCID department & Johnny Holland.
Who should attend Design Jams
Anyone really – Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) & Design Students, Interaction Designers, UX Researchers, Information Architects, UI Designers, Web Designers, Graphic Designers, Developers + more…
The day aims to improve collaboration skills and help attendees learn and practice various UX techniques including but not limited to Research, Brainstorming, Sketching, Wireframing and Prototyping.
What happens at a Design Jam?
Attendees sign up in advance. Upon arrival they assign themselves to teams based on the skills they could contribute and what they’d like to learn.
Teams are then presented a design challenge that they tackle by doing research, sketching, guerrilla testing and other UX techniques. They are encouraged to share their process and ideas halfway through enabling them to get feedback from other teams as well as other mentors in attendance during the day.
The day concludes with final presentations to the entire group. Outcomes could take the form of sketches, storyboards, a video or even a prototype – whatever communicates the idea best.
What happens to the ideas we come up with?
All output materials will be shared on the public Design Jams wiki, and teams will be asked to compose a blog post about their design process and ideas.
Licensing
To facilitate the free exchange of ideas, all outputs, visualizations and other contributions made during the day must be contributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. This basically means anyone can use ideas generated at the Design Jam, as long as they credit the original authors.
That’s great! How do I run my own Design Jam?
We really want to see more Design Jams happening around the world - have a read of the Design Jam Handbook for help on how to run your own.
Contact
If you have any questions about Design Jams, email us: designjamlondon[at]gmail[dot]com
or follow the twitter account: http://twitter.com/#!/designjamlondon
