What’s a design-a-thon? Glad you asked!
“Through Design-a-thon, our goal is to challenge and hone your design thinking process by introducing you to a real-life social issue that you—an aspiring designer—need to address and solve. We hope that this experience can help you acquire and grow both your soft and hard skills in empathizing with your users, defining a set of goals and needs, developing your product, and improving your confidence and creativity as a human-centric designer.” – Design at UCI
If you’ve never participated in a design-a-thon, or don’t consider yourself a designer, you’re still welcome to come to take a good try at it! Design is essentially problem solving, and we think that everyone has the potential to be a great problem solver.
For this design challenge, we will be working with external partners to see how we can improve the community and maximize local impact.
We are holding the design-a-thon March 1-7, 2021. The first few days are comprised of workshops open to the public, and the last four days are dedicated to participants only. Most of these workshops will be held in the evenings, usually after 6pm. Currently, we are planning for all events to be remote.
The registration deadline is March 1, 2021. Please register to attend the workshops as early as possible to help us determine how to facilitate the event.
TEAMS
Check your team assignment here!
DESIGN CHALLENGES
Select your group’s challenge preference here.
DUE BY 9PM TONIGHT!
SCHEDULE & WORKSHOPS
- March 1, 7pm – How to tell a Story with Julie Hagenbuch, Stories on Tap
- Learn the basics of how to tell a compelling story and engage your audience!
- Due to technical difficulties, this session was not recorded.
- Session Powerpoint
- Storytelling Tips from Stories on Tap
- March 2, 6pm – Idea Communication, with Abby Wilkymacky, Mindflower Studio
- An expert takes us on a journey of diagramming and sketching to express what we want to share with others
- Zoom Recording
- March 2, 6:45pm – Scrum! Ninja-like Project Management Skills! With professor Charles Kim
- Project Management is a great skill to have for the Design-a-thon, and for life!
- Zoom recording part 1
- Zoom recording part 2
- Zoom recording part 3
- March 2, 7:30pm – The Ins and Outs of Design with Lauren Muldoon
- Learn how to Design (with a capital D!) The Design Process takes us through why and how we do Design!
- Zoom recording
- March 3, 6pm – Learn how to build UI/UX frames! With Mahalia Yowell, Vanguard
- For those who want to go for a more digital route, knowing how to use UI/UX tools is a must! Take the chance to learn from a professional in the field!
- Zoom Recording
- Presentation
- March 3, 7:30pm – What is a prototype? With Professor Collin Smith
- What exactly do we need to show the world what your product/service is? Come learn about prototyping and methods to do so!
- Zoom Recording
- Service Blueprint
- March 4, 5pm – Design-a-thon Kick-off!
- The Design-a-thon kicks off, and the challenge is revealed! Events during the design-a-thon competition phase are participants-only.
- Zoom Recording
- March 7, TBD – Design-a-thon Presentations!
- All teams will present their viewpoint of the challenge and propose a solution
If you haven’t registered, click the poster below, or the link at the top of the page! If you have any questions, please email app007@bucknell.edu.
