{"id":6245,"date":"2011-04-01T09:04:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5.944"},"modified":"2012-04-02T23:14:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T23:14:26","slug":"design-jam-chapel-hill-1-creating-a-virtual-experience-for-visiting-historic-north-carolina-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2011\/04\/design-jam-chapel-hill-1-creating-a-virtual-experience-for-visiting-historic-north-carolina-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Jam Chapel Hill #1: Creating a virtual experience for visiting historic North Carolina sites"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/a> recently played host to the first international Design Jam. Local champion (Jade E. Davis<\/a>) & Mentor (Joyce Rudinsky<\/a>), together with the support from the Institute for Arts and Humanities<\/a> – did a stellar job rallying together a small group of passionate User Experience designers, Developers, Visual designers and more to tackle a topic challenge that was dear to the hearts of locals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Design<\/p>\n

To learn more about what Design Jams – their history<\/a>, past jams and more – surf on over to the global Design Jams wiki<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Day<\/h2>\n

A small group of 15 jammers gathered on the morning of Saturday, the 26th March 2011. They brought together a diverse set of skills and most hadn’t met previously. They were soon split into 3 groups (which is enough for diverse ideas and solutions) based on their key skills as well as techniques that they would like to practise and learn.<\/p>\n

While a pretty intense day lay ahead working through the topic challenge the attendees still found the time to share their directions during more than one part of the day, as well as socialise over copious amounts of coffee and an impressive lunch spread.<\/p>\n

The Topic<\/h2>\n

How can we create meaningful virtual experiences of historic sites throughout North Carolina for tourists and locals alike?<\/strong><\/p>\n

North Carolina is full of historic sites. There are 27 in total, four of them located in the The Triangle area (Historic Stagville, Duke Homestead, Bennett Place and The State Capitol). Many people are unfamiliar with these sites or do not live within reasonable travel distance to visit them. Still, their history is important.<\/p>\n

Read the full topic<\/a> which can be located on the wiki<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Teams<\/p>\n

Team Outputs<\/h2>\n

As intense a schedule as it was, the teams did amazingly well – sharing a ton of research, personas, sketches & wire-frames<\/a> on their respective wiki pages. This was partly due to both Jade<\/a> & Joyce<\/a> reminding teams to focus, focus, focus! <\/p>\n