Design Challenge (March 13)

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Overview

This issue is to track the Design Challenge todo's and resources of the UI/UX CoP meeting March 13.
Volunteers will be given a design prompt to work on and produce certain deliverables. This design challenge offers volunteers a hands-on opportunity to apply their skills and creativity in addressing real-world problems, fostering collaboration, critical thinking, and innovation, as well as practicing their presentation and communication skills.

Action Items

• Come up with challenge prompt
• Decide goal deliverables
  • Research Plan
  • User Flow/Journey
  • Design Concepts/Mock ups
• Slack message
• Create assets and templates on Figma/FigJam volunteers can use during challenge
• Link any resources
• Document results of challenge. Success vs error rates, satisfaction, SWOT.

Resources/Instructions

1. Volunteers will work solo. Depending on the numbers of volunteers joining, at least 15, they will be divided into groups of 3-5.
2. Breakout rooms will be available for groups.
3. Choose a prompt to work on:

   • Prompt 1: Design a scheduling app or website for a local fitness business that streamlines class bookings and simplifies instructor and class management.

   • Prompt 2: Design a mobile app for a public transportation system that provides real-time updates on routes, schedules, and nearby amenities to improve the commuter experience.

   • Prompt 3: Design a digital platform to aid small businesses affected by challenges, like Covid-19, connecting them with volunteers, donors, and customers for financial aid, marketing, and online sales support.

4. Create a Design Mock Up as a final deliverable, thinking about:
   a. Research Plan: What information do you need to know? What methods would you use to find that information? Who is your user? What is their goal?
   b. User Flow/Journey: What are the current needs and pain points of the user? What is the context? How does your solution fit in the user's journey?
   c. Design Concepts/Mock Ups: What does your solution look like? How does your solution solve the user's problem?
5. Present your deliverables.
6. Get feedback, discuss and learn!

Prompts

Prompt 1: Design a scheduling app or website for a local fitness business that streamlines class bookings and simplifies instructor and class management.

Prompt 2: Design a mobile app for a public transportation system that provides real-time updates on routes, schedules, and nearby amenities to improve the commuter experience.

Prompt 3: Design a digital platform to aid small businesses affected by challenges, like Covid-19, connecting them with volunteers, donors, and customers for financial aid, marketing, and online sales support.

Slack messages

Pre-Meeting

Hi Community! :blob-wave: Ready to flex your design skills and tackle real-world design prompts? Join us for an exciting Design Challenge exercise! 🎨💡

Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting out, this hands-on exercise is the perfect opportunity to unleash your creativity and improve your research, ux, visual, and communication skills 🚀 In this 1-hour session, you’ll work individually on a design prompt of your choice. Then, we’ll come together to present our ideas and provide valuable feedback to one another.

🌟 Design Challenge!
:spiral_calendar_pad: Wednesday 13th at 6pm PST

Post Meeting

Hi Everyone! 🎉

A massive thank you to all of you who participated in our Design Challenge exercise! We're blown away by the fantastic ideas and thoughtful feedback shared during the session.

Here are some of the resources we also shared:

• example1

Once again, thanks for showing up and participating. Stay tuned for more challenges and exciting events coming up!

Figma file

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Agenda

Intro and set up - 10 min
Focus Work - 35 min
1. Research - 10 min
2. User Flow/Journey - 10 min
3. Design Concepts/Wireframes - 15 min
Present the work and feedback - 15 min

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Currently documenting the results of the challenge