Design Jam London 3
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About Design Jams
Design Jams are one-or-two-day design sessions, during which people team up to solve engaging User Experience (UX) challenges. Learn more about Design Jams.
Design Jam London 3 - #djl3
With support from Mozilla Labs, City University London and Blue Latitude, the third London Design Jam is happening on the 2nd of July 2011.
Tickets are free and will be available on Eventbrite, released in two batches on Monday the 13th of June at 11am and 3pm (mark it on your calendar!). There'll also be a waitlist in case we sell out again quickly.
Local Champions
Feel free to contact any of the following with questions and queries.
- Johanna Kollmann @johannakoll
- Joe Lanman @joelanman
- Franco Papeschi @bobbywatson
- Desigan Chinniah @cyberdees
The Topic
Design a service that allows people to play, listen and contribute to the music in public spaces and situations.
Music in public situations can be a source of inspiration and discovery, but can also cause friction. How can we mitigate social awkwardness, and create an experience that makes people happy, lets them discover new music and facilitates interaction?
Considerations:
What’s the social situation and context?
Are you with ‘like-minded’ people or in a culture-clash situation? With friends or strangers?
Is the situation a private event, eg party at a friends’ house, or in a public space?
Is everyone listening publicly (e.g. from a stereo), or each person individually?
Is everyone listening to the same music, or can individuals choose separately?
Are lots of people co-creating the playlist, or is there only one person having the authority?
Focus on real-world interactions, NOT on your user sitting at home, alone.
Try to focus on a limited amount of functionality.
Define your audience – narrow down who you are designing for.
The Teams
Team Tumblrs:
All posts tagged with #djl3:
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/djl3
Post Event: Twitter, Photos and Videos
- Add links to any photosets of the day below
- Tag any photos #djl3
Event Details
Follow @designjamlondon on Twitter Hashtag all activity with #djl3 or #designjam
Main info
Date: 2 July 2011 (Saturday) Time: 08:30 - 18:00 Venue: University City London, Northampton Square - WC1V 6NX Nearest Tube: Angel (Northern line - Bank branch)
Directions to venue
Please note, the lifts may not be available, and the rooms are on the 4th floor - sorry about that
The City University campus is quite big, so here's how to find the Design Jam studio:
- Room name - The Northampton Suite – Rooms A, B, C.
- Building name - University Building
You need to sign it at the main desk in the University Building. We'll put up signs for you to find room.
The University Building overlooks Northampton Square:
- a map
- a larger map with details on how to get to Northampton Square (scroll down)
Day Schedule
| [08:30 – 09:15] | Doors open |
| [09:15 – 10:00] | Welcome, team building, design challenge announced |
| [10:00 – 11:45] | Teams start tackling the challenge with a Research & Explore phase |
| [11:45 – 12:30] | Interim presentation/feedback phase |
| [12:30 – 13:15] | Lunch |
| [13:15 – 14:45] | Design phase: Wire-frame/UI exploration, storyboards, prototypes, guerrilla testing |
| [14:45 – 15:00] | Tea break |
| [15:00 – 16:00] | Continue design phase, prepare final presentation |
| [16:00 – 17:45] | Final presentations |
| [17:45 – 18:00] | Wrap-up and we’re off to the pub |
Mentors
Hannah Donovan
Hannah Donovan is a Canadian interaction designer living in London. She led design at Last.fm for five years, and before that worked agency-side designing digital campaigns. Since leaving Last.fm this spring, Hannah’s become an independent product designer focused on ways to make music better on the web. When she’s not busy with new work, Hannah contributes to spacelog.org and plays cello with a real orchestra as well as a comedy orchestra.
Twitter: @Han
Web: http://blog.hannahdonovan.com/
Matthew Ogle
Matthew Ogle is a transplanted Canadian who has spent seven years in the UK mixing music and technology. He runs the London outpost of music intelligence platform The Echo Nest, helping developers build amazing apps with its APIs and making a few of his own too. Before joining the Nest, Matt spent almost six years at Last.fm, directing several evolutions of the website and growing the teams and technologies that took Last.fm from 0.5 to 40+ million users. Besides music, Matt likes space, archives, and whiskey.
Twitter: @flaneur
Web: http://mattogle.com
Jason Mesut
Jason is Head of User Experience at RMA Consulting, where he leads a team of 36 Experience Design specialists developing cutting-edge enterprise applications. Jason doesn't get much time to design stuff himself these days, but takes great pride in helping others frame their challenge better and develop solutions that matter for an organisation. Outside of his crazy work schedule, UX recruitment and industry presentations, Jason likes to use a whole bunch of strange technology to make disturbed electronic music in his little studio in Richmond.
Twitter: @jasonmesut
Other Important Info
When will the teams be formed?
Teams will be formed on the day, so don’t worry about that for now. Please think about what skills you contribute, and what you would like to learn – you will need that information.
What happens to the ideas we come up with?
To facilitate the free exchange of ideas, all outputs, visualizations and other contributions you make during the day must be contributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license.
What do I need to bring?
- laptop, plus chargers and cables (please bring one, you'll need more than one per team). Mac users: DVI to VGA adapter for the projectors. Wifi is available
- spare power strip if you have one
- whatever tools would make your design better. Flipcharts, pens, markers, brown paper and post-its will be available (we would be happy if you bring some of your own, though), but the rest is up to you. Last time, people brought everything from sketching templates to Stephen Anderson's Mental Notes.
Food and drink
While there'll be breakfast, coffee, tea and snacks, we won’t be providing lunch. It would be great if you could bring your own, and even greater if you could bring some to share, potluck style. You can also head out to grab something from nearby (many options around Exmouth market and Angel station, a Waitrose is nearby).
Supporters
Mozilla Labs Concept Series
City University London
Blue Latitude
TimeOut London
Fjord
Songkick
Mozilla Labs Concept Series
The Mozilla Labs Concept Series is a hub of community activity to encourage innovation and experimentation for the Web via design and development. Their aim is to provoke thought, share ideas, facilitate discussion, and inspire the future vision of the Mozilla project, Firefox, and the Web as a whole.
@MozConcept & @MozLabs on Twitter latest news and updates.
City University London
City University London - providing students, the professions and business with the knowledge and skills essential to the success of London as a world city. Our Postgraduate courses include MSc's for Electronic Publishing and Human-Centred Systems.
Computing and Information Science staff and students benefit from state-of-the-art premises in City University London's historic College Building. Located in the heart of London, our approach to education draws on more than 100 years of tradition.
The purpose-built space includes specialist teaching rooms, a SAP Product lab and a high-tech Human Computer Interaction Design lab supported by The Vodafone UK Foundation.
Blue Latitude
Blue Latitude is a business and marketing consultancy working with its clients to drive growth and innovation through best use of digital channels.
The team consult on digital, social and mobile strategies, provide support for campaigns and implementation projects and develop measurement models to track success.
Audience needs and behaviours are at the heart of what we do and we have a strong User Experience service offering, including User Research, User Centred Design and Usability Testing.
Clients include: American Express, GE Healthcare, Eli Lilly, Hayes, BBC and National House-Building Council.
@blue_latitude on twitter.
TimeOut London
Time Out was founded in 1968 in London, and has since grown into a leading international multi-channel media company that spans 35 cities across 24 countries and provides the very best inspiration, information and booking opportunities in arts, entertainment, culture, food & drink, and shopping. Globally, Time Out is present in 35 cities across the world, with a worldwide audience of 16 million across both print and digital channels, with our websites having over 7 million global unique users per month.
Fjord
Fjord has been pioneering the art and science of digital service design since they started out nearly ten years ago. They partner with global clients to create service solutions that work across multiple platforms and deliver transformational results. There are now 140 Fjord experts – who include the original founders – working across creative hubs in London, Helsinki, Stockholm, Berlin, Madrid and New York.
Fjord has a track record of analysing in depth the long-term underlying patterns of innovation and change in digital technology. That’s how we help clients to build real innovation into their interfaces and products. We understand ‘new mobility’ – it’s beyond the mobile phone but about today’s mobile lifestyle.
Songkick
Songkick.com is the home for live music on the web, and is now the second largest live music destination after Livenation.com. Recognized by Billboard Magazine as one of the Top 10 digital music startups of 2010 and voted Best Innovation in BT’s 2010 Digital Music Awards, Songkick lets fans can track their favorite artists so they never miss them live.
With over 120,000 upcoming listings, Songkick is the world’s most comprehensive database of concerts, aggregating festival and concert information from over 100 different ticket vendors in 60 countries. Songkick allows music fans to track their favorite artists, discover upcoming concerts, find the cheapest tickets, and let friends know which shows they are attending. Fans can also use Songkick to share their concert experiences with the world by uploading photos, setlists, and reviews from past concerts.
Songkick’s open API helps fans discover concerts wherever they consume music online by syndicating its database of concert information to a network of partners that includes YouTube, Vevo, and The Hype Machine.
