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Design Jam Iasi
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About
What is Design Jam?
Design Jam is a one-day design session, during which people will team up to tackle engaging User Experience (UX) challenges. Similar to developer ‘hackdays’ the aim is to get UX professionals, designers, developers (and more) together to learn and collaborate with each other while working on actual design problems. The sessions champion open-source thinking & sharing and are non-profit, run by local volunteers.
Know more about Design Jams, who should attend and what happens at the event here
Learn more about Design Jams and see previous Design Jams.
Who should attend?
Students or experienced practitioners, interaction designers, UX researchers, information architects, Web and graphic designers and even developers, anyone who would like to practice their research, brainstorming, sketching and collaboration skills.
What happens at Design Jam?
On the day, attendees assign themselves to a group based on the skills they contribute and what they’d like to learn.. The teams are giving a design challenge that they tackle by doing research, sketching, guerilla testing and other UX techniques.
Teams share their process and ideas halfway through. The day finishes with final presentations. Outcomes could be a prototype, sketches, storyboards or videos - whatever communicates the idea best.
What happens to the ideas we come up with?
All materials, ideas, all outputs, visualizations and other contributions you make during the day must be contributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license will be shared on the Design Jam wiki. Teams will have to write a short wiki post about their design process and idea.
Design Jam Iasi #1
With support from Mozilla Labs, The Red Point, Faculty of Computer Science and ASII the first Design Jam is taking place on 3rd and 4th June 2011.
Tickets are free and sold out, and are available on Eventbrite from Tuesday , May 24th 2011, 10 AM.
Organisers
Feel free to contact any of the following with questions and queries:
- Sabin Buraga @busaco_
- Stefan Negru @blankdots
- Lenuta Alboaie Contact
- Andrei Panu
Email: designjamiasi [at] gmail [dot] com
Event Details
A few hundred more from across the globe remotely watched via the live stream.
Are you coming to the event use #sweb2011 to tag photos on flickr, tweets on twitter for SummerWeb2011 and #djiasi to tag photos on flickr, tweets on twitter.
Track the event at: Lanyrd
SummerWeb 2011 Call for Participation.
Main info
1st Day: SummerWeb2011 (pre-Design Jam Iasi)
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2nd Day: Design Jam Iasi
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Directions to venue
- Room name - C308.
- Building name - Al. I. Cuza University Corp C.
- See Google Maps for directions
Tickets
Register page: designjamiasi.eventbrite.com - sold out
The Challenge
Mall guiding assistant.
Teams
Team 1 - MallMasters
Team 2 - Concentrico
Team 3 - Keep it Simple
Team 4 - Bird Mall
Team 5 - Oomba
Post Event
Thoughts and Reviews
Design Jam Iasi #1: Intense, Fun & A Rip-Roaring Success, Say Over 50 Jammers!
Summer Web 2011 + Design Jam Iasi #1: Conclusion
Thoughts extracted from the blog post:
“The word of the day for Design Jam Iasi was for sure “inspiration”. The mix’n'match of ideas coming from people with different background and complimentary perspectives on what design and UX should be modeled like laid a rock-solid foundation for creativity and innovation. That’s how we got a robot, augmented reality and paper tablets as solutions for the same challenge :) A big thumbs up for the local champions and congratulations for all the attendees, looking forward to see the same enthusiasm and passion brought together to Design Jam Iasi #2!”
“Had loads of fun at #djiasi. Looking forward for the next iteration of the event. Many thanks to the organizers!”
De la Summer Web 2011 la Design Jam Iași - in Romanian
Twitter, Photos and Videos
- Add links to any photo sets of the day below
- SummerWeb2011 tweets #sweb2011 http://twitter.com/search/sweb2011
- Tag photos with djiasi
- Tag tweets with #djiasi http://twitter.com/search/djiasi
Design Jam Iasi Flickr:
Design Jam Iasi photos on twitpic:
- http://twitpic.com/56pl4k
- http://twitpic.com/56po8b
- http://twitpic.com/56aqtk
- http://twitpic.com/56qpvt
Schedule
1st Day Schedule
| Presenter | Presentation Title | |
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| [14:00 – 14:30] | Doors open - Registration | |
| [14:30 – 15:00] | Alecsandru Grigoriu (MSc student at FII, UAIC) | Design Principles |
| [15:00 – 15:30] | Andreea Buraga (Creative Director) | Design Phases: The Birth of a Star |
| [15:30 – 16:00] | Laurian Gridinoc (Mozilla Add-ons ambassador) | Mozilla Jetpack |
| [16:00 – 16:30] | Victor Porof (BSc student at FII, UAIC) | Web 3D |
| [16:30 – 17:00] | Ștefan Negru (PhD student at FII, UAIC) | Creating Things for the Internet of Things |
| [17:00 – 17:30] | Tea/Coffee break | |
| [17:30 – 18:00] | Cristi Bârlădeanu (founder of Unicity) | Prototyping UX |
| [18:00 – 18:30] | Marius Ursache (Chief Creative Officer at Grapefruit) | Quality Assessment in Design |
| [18:30 – 19:00] | Sînică Alboaie (Technical Product Manager, The Red Point) | 3D Interaction in the E-learning Environments |
| [18:30 – 19:00] | Victor Porof & Alecsandru Grigoriu (FII, UAIC) | Developing Games for the Mobile Devices |
| [19:00 – 19:10] | Wrap-up and Closing Remarks | |
2nd Day Schedule
| [08:30 – 09:00] | Doors open |
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| [09:00 – 09:45] | Welcome, team building, design challenge announced |
| [09:35 – 11:00] | Teams start tackling the challenge with a Research & Explore phase |
| [11:00 – 12:00] | Interim presentation/feedback phase |
| [12:00 – 13:45] | Lunch Break |
| [13:45 – 15:00] | Design phase: Wire-frame/UI exploration, storyboards, prototypes, guerrilla testing |
| [15:00 – 15:45] | Continue design phase, prepare final presentation |
| [15:15 – 16:15] | Tea/Coffee break |
| [16:15 – 17:45] | Final presentations |
| [17:45 – 18:00] | Wrap-up and Closing Remarks |
Mentors
Sînică Alboaie
Technical Product Manager at The Red Point and main co-founder of Axiologic SaaS,Sînică has a 10 years experience in software development.
Twitter: @salboaie
Andreea Buraga
With 6+ years experience in graphic and Web design, Andreea (known as Klangwelt) is focused on creative direction in the world-wide music and entertainment industry.
Website: projekt-klangwelt.com
Twitter: @klangwelt
Alecsandru Grigoriu
Alecsandru is a MSc student who participated to the 4 editions of the Mozilla Labs Design series.
Twitter: @alecsandru
Ecaterina Moraru
Ecaterina is currently Interaction Designer at XWiki. She was honored with "Best in Class" by Mozilla Labs for the Design Challenge, 2009. Also, Ecaterina created a very useful collection of interaction design patterns
Website: profs.info.uaic.ro/~evalica/
Twitter: @evalica
Silviu Savin
Passionated about design and UX, Silviu is a consultant on interaction strategy. Among others, he was also involved in creation of Joobs.ro and Kulinar.ro.
Website: silvius.ro
Twitter: @silvius
Marius Ursache
Marius is a senior design consultant with over 10 years experience in brand identity, graphic and interactive design. Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer at Grapefruit, he is focused on organizational rebranding and consumer brand revitalization.
Twitter: @mariusursache
Other Important Info
When will the teams be formed?
Teams will be formed on the day. Think about what skills you contribute, and what you would like to learn and hold on to that thought until the venue.
What happens to the ideas we come up with?
All materials, ideas, all outputs, visualizations and other contributions you make during the day must be contributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license will be shared on the Design Jam wiki. Teams will have to write a short wiki post about their design process and idea.
What do I need to bring?
- laptop, plus chargers. Mac users: DVI to VGA adapter for the projectors. Wifi is available.
- whatever tools would make your design better. Pens, markers, paper and post-its will be available, but we are also happy if you bring your own.
Supporters
Mozilla
The Red Point
Mozilla Labs
Mozilla Labs is place where people like designers, developers and even students and teachers (Mozilla Labs Student Outreach), come together virtually, to produce creative and discuss works, share ideas, collectively innovate and inspire the future vision of the Mozilla project, Firefox, and the Web as a whole.
You can get more information about their various projects through their Projects page.
Follow @MozConcept & @MozLabs on Twitter for latest news and updates.
The Red Point
The Red Point is a Romanian private capital company, specialized in providing IT services and solutions meant to improve business processes, that supports the development of strong partnerships based on experience, professionalism and dynamism.
Its diversified portfolio of business software solutions includes a series of own solutions, developed within the organization, as well as recognized solutions - like SAP. The main areas of expertise are: Education (Higher Education), Private Sector (Retail, Production, Distribution, Food), Public Sector (Local Public Administration, Medical Sector) and Transportation Infrastructure.
Find out mode about The Red Point.
Faculty of Computer Science, Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
ASII
Faculty of Computer Science
Encouraging excellency in study and research, the Faculty of Computer Science provides a high-level education in Computer Science, as well as a flexible and stimulative scientific environment. Faculty of Computer Science is one of the 15th faculties of the Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi.
The faculty offers specialization in Computer Science, 3 year Bachelor of Science studies (in English and Romanian languages). At the Master of Science level, currently there are available five MSc programs (taught in English language only): Software Engineering, Distributed Computing, Computational Optimization, Information Security, and Computational Linguistics — details.
Faculty of Computer Science part of the Student Outreach.
Follow @fiistudent on Twitter for latest news and updates.
ASII
ASII - Asociatia Studentilor Informaticieni Ieseni (The Association of The Informatics’ Students from Iasi) was founded in march 1990, ASII, and it is the oldest of all students organisations from “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University. It is a non-governmental, apolitical and non-profit organisation that has as main objectives the facilitation of inter-cultural exchange, the ease of access at scientific, cultural and sport events.
Follow @fii_asii on Twitter for latest news and updates.
