IxD Competitions
21 Feb 2007 - 9:56am
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AlokJain
2006
Friends,
Which competitions would you recommend for Interaction Design work (more in
the Web space)?
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Alok Jain
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Alok,
I have a pretty significant bias here. I think the beauty, cool factor and clever contest fall pretty flat.
Look for events that require a problem/solution format and ask for some metrics or indicators of successfully fulfilling business requirements. They are harder to judge and thus harder to find. You will typically find them in in academic sttings or in vertical association structures.
Mark
On Wednesday, February 21, 2007, at 09:57AM, "Alok Jain" <alok.ajain1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>Friends,
>
>Which competitions would you recommend for Interaction Design work (more in
>the Web space)?
>
>--
>Best Regards
>Alok Jain
Currently, I know of only one true interaction design award, and that
is IDSA/BusinessWeek's IDEA award in the (new) interaction design
category.
http://www.idsa.org/idea2007/
Unfortunately, the deadline for it this year just ended.
The other one are the HOW awards:
http://www.howdesign.com/competitions/
Dan
I have a different question ...
What would make an award worthwhile to bother with a submission fee & process?
What are you looking for in submitting a proposal for an award?
What should the community be looking for?
What personal value? corporate value? is derived? short term? long term?
What makes an IxD award different from other design awards?
What would be an ideal review process? What are the criteria for review?
What makes a "winner"?
Are there different categories?
(hmmm? maybe this should be done in survey monkey? and why hasn't
Surveymonkey created an ajax version yet?)
-- dave
On 2/21/07, Dan Saffer <dan at odannyboy.com> wrote:
> Currently, I know of only one true interaction design award, and that
> is IDSA/BusinessWeek's IDEA award in the (new) interaction design
> category.
>
> http://www.idsa.org/idea2007/
>
> Unfortunately, the deadline for it this year just ended.
>
> The other one are the HOW awards:
>
> http://www.howdesign.com/competitions/
>
>
> Dan
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Communication Arts has an "Interaction Design Annual". Their deadline
for the 2007 issue was in January.
http://www.commarts.com/CA/interactive/
2007 call for entries:
http://www.commarts.com/ca/magazine/comp/mag_ia.html
Best,
Jack
Jack L. Moffett
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Form follows function -
that has been misunderstood.
Form and function should be one,
joined in a spiritual union.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Dave,
I was thinking about something like this sometime back.. here are my
thoughts:
1. Value to Individual/Company: - Recognition, New opportunities,
Competitive Evaluation (not necessarily by judges, could be self), Feedback,
Networking
2. Value to Community - Encourage competition which leads to growth, to a
certain degree provide direction to the field ... , recognition of the field
itself
3. Review Factors - Innovation (needs to be defined in this context), Focus
applied in the solution (What should not be in a solution is as important as
what should be), Integration with other disciplines (IA, Biz strategy,
Design, Accessibility ....), Final Impact
4. Review Process - 360 degree review - experts (??), peers, novices.
Representation from multiple disciplines - business, design ..., Actual
users
This is something IxDA as an org can take up ...
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Alok Jain
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On 2/21/07, David Malouf <dave.ixd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a different question ...
>
> What would make an award worthwhile to bother with a submission fee &
> process?
> What are you looking for in submitting a proposal for an award?
> What should the community be looking for?
> What personal value? corporate value? is derived? short term? long term?
> What makes an IxD award different from other design awards?
> What would be an ideal review process? What are the criteria for review?
> What makes a "winner"?
> Are there different categories?
>
> (hmmm? maybe this should be done in survey monkey? and why hasn't
> Surveymonkey created an ajax version yet?)
>
> -- dave
>
> > http://www.idsa.org/idea2007/
> >
I like how they've gone for meticulously calculated low contrast
between body text and background colours for the site to ensure only
designers with the sharpest eye are able to send their submissions.
Prabhath
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