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Event Details

While we're not releasing the challenge topic, we are excited to announce the mentors who'll be there on the day with you (and if you know who they are, you might be able to guess where the topic is headed):

• Hannah Donovan (independent)
• Matthew Ogle (The Echo Nest)
• Jason Mesut (RMA Consulting)
  

See more info about our mentors below.

What is a Design Jam?

Design Jams are one-day design sessions, during which people team up to solve engaging UX challenges.

While conferences and talks are very popular in the UX community, we don't have many events for actual collaboration, like the 'hackdays' enjoyed by the development community. Design Jams get designers together to learn from each other while working on actual problems. The sessions champion open-source thinking and are non-profit, run by local volunteers.

Check out  the Design Jam wiki to read more about the format and see what happened at Design Jam London #2.

Who should attend Design Jams?

Anybody who would like to practice their research, brainstorming, sketching or collaboration skills. Interaction designers, UX researchers, information architects, web and graphic designers, developers or whoever else has an interest in UX and collaboration. Students and experienced practitioners.

What happens at a Design Jam?

On the day, attendees assign themselves to a group based on the skills they contribute and what they’d like to learn. (Instead of the session grid well-known from barcamps, Design Jams use a 'team grid'). 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?

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.

All materials will be shared on the Design Jam wiki, and teams will have to write a short blogpost about their design process and idea.

Design Jam 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.

Our supporters:

The Mozilla Labs Concept Series is a hub of community activity to encourage innovation and experimentation for the Web via design and development. Our 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.
Follow us on Twitter for latest news and updates:@MozConcept

City University London - providing students, the professions and business with the knowledge and skills essential to the success of London as a world city.

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 is a business and marketing consultancy working with its clients to drive growth and innovation through best use of digital channels.

We 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.  

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.

London Design Jam team

Desigan Chinniah @cyberdees

Johanna Kollmann @johannakoll

Joe Lanman @joelanman

Franco Papeschi @bobbywatson