{"id":6106,"date":"2011-03-02T22:33:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T05:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5.860"},"modified":"2011-03-02T22:33:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T05:33:05","slug":"design-jam-london-2-yet-another-50-uxers-same-9-hours-1-brand-new-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2011\/03\/design-jam-london-2-yet-another-50-uxers-same-9-hours-1-brand-new-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Jam London #2: Yet another 50 UX’ers. Same 9 hours. 1 Brand new challenge."},"content":{"rendered":"

To learn more about what Design Jams are<\/a> and where they\u2019ve come from, read more on the Design Jams wiki<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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A guest post by local London Design Jam champions, Joe Lanman<\/a>, Franco Papeschi<\/a>, Desigan Chinniah<\/a> & Johanna Kollmann<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The all-new and improved Design Jam London 2<\/a> took place on Saturday, 26th of February 2011, with support from Mozilla Labs<\/a>, Fjord<\/a>, Geeks of London<\/a> and hosts City University London<\/a>. <\/p>\n

User Experience (UX) people need their caffeine! That was just one of the things we learnt from Design Jam London 1<\/a> back in November 2010, where unfortunately, health & safety regulations got the better of us and we didn\u2019t manage to provide tea and coffee. <\/p>\n

This time round, it was all about mobile design, with mentors Aral Balkan<\/a> (Naklab), Tim Brooke<\/a> (Nokia Design) and Mathias Dahlstrom<\/a> (lastminute.com labs) sharing their expertise. And there were plenty of hot drinks available!<\/p>\n

The Challenge<\/h2>\n

Choosing a good challenge is one of the hardest things about organising a Design Jam. It can\u2019t be too broad or too narrow, and it needs to be inspiring. After mulling over various options, we decided on the following:<\/p>\n

Design a mobile service to help visitors to London \u2018become local\u2019 \u2013 to discover and connect with the city in a meaningful way.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every day people visit London for the most disparate reasons. Lots of them are unfamiliar with the city, and would like to act, think and feel like a local (the way they move around, the places they go, the people they meet, the coffee they drink\u2026 ). How can we help them on the go? What are the mobile services we could provide them with?<\/em><\/p>\n

You can read the full challenge on the wiki<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Morning Session<\/h2>\n

Teams started tackling the challenge with a Research & Explore phase. <\/p>\n

It was great to see the various different approaches, including several brainstorming techniques, empathy maps, guerrilla interviews & online surveys. Books like Gamestorming<\/a> provided inspiration. We encouraged all the teams to update their team pages<\/a> on the wiki with any techniques they used, so that even if you couldn\u2019t attend the event, you can still learn from it.<\/p>\n

At traditional hackdays, the only time when outcomes are shared is during the (often very short) presentations at the end of the day. At a Design Jam, the process is just as important as the outcome! <\/p>\n

How did you get to this idea? How did you approach the problem?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Interim<\/p>\n

To allow teams to compare their processes and bounce ideas off each other, the groups shared what they had done so far before lunch. Articulating their ideas and getting questions from the audience helped teams to focus, and seeing how other teams had taken completely different steps got everybody reflecting on the many different ways to explore a problem.<\/p>\n

After the interim presentations, mentor Aral Balkan gave the teams useful \u2018mobile focus points\u2019 to consider:<\/p>\n