Interaction12 :: Dublin, Feb 01-04

This year, Thomson Reuters and the IxDA challenge you to look beyond the forms of delivery to address the behaviors, interactions, and goals that surround news.

We want you to explore the interaction design implications of questions such as:

• What are people trying to achieve with news?
• How do we identify that a particular story is important or relevant?
• What is the relationship between the different types of information that currently make up “news”? (e.g., entertainment, local, breaking news, weather, data, etc.)
• What is the potential for emerging trends in how news is produced, from hyperlocal to citizen journalism?

The challenge runs in two stages: an online entry (see how to enter below) followed by an on-site masterclass and design challenge

How to Enter

This challenge is open to current undergraduate or graduate students, or those who have graduated in 2011.

To participate in this challenge, create a short (short!) video. Tell us about yourself and how you respond to this year’s theme: Design the Future of News. Help us understand:

• What is your background as a designer?
• What is your perspective on this theme? how might design create the change you’d like to see in the world?
• Why do you want to come to Dublin and continue working on the future of news?

You might think of this as more of an audition. The judges will be looking for interaction design ability and how you communicate your thinking on the theme, rather than examining any design work you’ve done to create solutions around the theme.

Once you’ve created your video, upload it to YouTube or Vimeo or the like. Once you’ve got a URL for your video, click the big green button below to submit your information.

Good Luck!

Announcing our on-site challenge jury

We’ve got an amazing bunch of folks who will be reviewing the student pitches at the conference in Dublin!

• Elizabeth Bacon, Chief Design Officer at Devise and Product Manager at Providence Health & Services (@ebacon)
• Peter Boersma, Digital Product Designer, peterboersma.com (@pboersma)
• Dana Chisnell, Independent researcher, UsabilityWorks (@danachis)
• Abby Covert, Information Architect at The Understanding Group & Executive Producer of the Information Architecture Summit 2012 (@Abby_the_IA)
• Janna DeVylder, President of IxDA, Co-founder and Principal, Meld Studios in Sydney, AUS (@jdevylder)
• Carla Diana, Associate Director, Interaction Design, Smart Design (@carladiana_)
• Suzanne El-Moursi, Conference Chair – Interaction|2013 & Creative Director, Experience Design, SapientNitro (@suzelmoursi)
• Rachel Hinman, Senior Research Scientist – Mobile User Experience, Nokia Research Center (@hinman)
• Jonas Löwgren, Malmö University
• Matt Nish-Lapidus, Design Director, Normative Design/Board of Directors, IxDA (@emenel)
• Esteban Souto, Global Head of Design & User Experience, Thomson Reuters
• Jared Spool, Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering (@jmspool)

Whew! Our wonderful judges have sifted through the 56 entries! We heard from a number of judges how impressed they were overall with the quality of the entries and the creativity and passion that the group overall had to offer. Of course, this makes the selection process a difficult one. We’ve thought to ourselves “Well, what if we could take them ALL!!!” but of course, we can’t.

We managed to find four wonderful and inspiring entries among all the bounty of goodness we received from around the world. Look after the jump for their entries, and our winners are (in no particular order)

• Diksha Grover – National Institute of Design, India
• Siri Johansson – Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden
• Jaime Krakowiak – Austin Center for Design, USA
• Priscilla Mok – Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Head on over to the design challenge blog to see these winning entries, and stay tuned to hear about our on-site competition, mentors and jury in the next week!