Author: Hrushikesh Chitre

Call for Participation

IndiaHCI invites Startups and Designers to work together for a Co-creation workshop.

“Kick Start Design Journeys” we have devised a day-long Start-up Design workshop, where Designers get to work with selected Startups to explore what design can bring on the table for a startup.

Who should participate?

1. Designers, who think they can make a solid contribution with their design and innovation methodologies, and tools towards a startup company.
2. Design professionals, working anywhere, Any amount of experience.
3. Design students: Studying UX / Product Design / INteraction Design / Visual Communication .

Startup entrepreneurs & teams:
Who think, Design could add value to their journeys of ‘Idea to successful Product.’

We are expecting early-level startups, who do not have design skills on their team. 

Selection Process

1. Startups will be selected based on their initial inputs about their startup ideas.
2. Designers would be selected based on their educational qualifications / Skill-sets and Linkedin profiles.

Depending on the number of registrations, we will make appropriate groups of one startup [1 to 5 (max) team members] and 2 Designers for the Co-creation workshop.

Tentative Outline of the Workshop

1.1. Inspiration (30 minutes)

Few Successful Startup entrepreneurs will share their stories on how ‘Design’ helped their startup grow and flourish, Or if the Design would have helped (10 minutes talks).

1.2 Learnings ( 30 minutes)

Veteran designers, who have worked for Startups would share their experiences, of what is needed in a startup, How a designer could contribute, What kind of design processes will work? etc. (10 minutes talks)

1.3 Workshop Methodology Introduction (30 minutes)

Workshop coordinator will explain the structured methodology of the collaborative workshop to all participants. Groups are announced.

1.4: Workshop: Working in separate groups ( 3 hours)

One startup (represented by 1-5 team members) and 1-2 designers, gets on individual virtual sessions and work together.

The team follows the structured methodology explained above and comes up with design intervention ideas at the end of the session.

The teams are supposed to generate a report in PPT format at the end of the session.

1.5 Summarise and present (30 minutes)

The select 5 teams will be presenting their Takeaways and design interventions and outputs to the whole group. in a 5 min presentation.

Two selected teams will present their output in the Conference Plenary.

Panel Discussions – Call for Submission

We want to democratize the process of choosing the topics for ‘Panel Discussions’ this year.

The expert panel discussions are anchored by an experienced UX professional. A chosen set of experts in a specific field are invited to share their opinions, experiences, and point of view on the given topic, in an informal chat. This year, like the other tracks of the conference, Panel discussions will also go Online. We will use video-conferencing tools to webcast these panel discussions.

Suggest a topic in the following format, and our panel of experts will choose some of these topics for the conference.

The finalized topics will be chosen for multiple Panel Discussions during the conference.

The format includes Title of the topic, short description, list of panellists, if you want to suggest, apart from your contact details of yourself

Follow the following link, to submit your suggestion:

Industry Showcase – Call for Proposals

We are eager to know if Emerging technologies be it AI, ML, AR, VR, or EDGE computing, how the UX teams are moulding their processes, changing their ways of working. This is an invite to all UX professionals and User researchers to share and present. Whether you work for a Consulting company or a studio or an IT product, each one of you has explored new tools, deviated from the ‘classic’ User-centred process, or just worked on a unique technology. There is a lot we all could learn from each other. India HCI invites proposals for presentations from working UX professionals. The showcase could include, either of the following:

A) Design for emerging Tech: Explain the specific approach of design for specific emerging technologies.

B) Project / Product Design case Study: A case study of a specific design project which employed innovative design methodology or project from an emerging technology domain.

C) Point of view presentation for an Industry Domain: For example, share your experience with Oil and Gas, or retail or healthcare, or any. Other industry verticals.

D) User research techniques: Any specific user research techniques you want to talk about, with hands-on project learnings.

E) Other possible topics: Comparison of tools of design, Design Process across different organizations,

Preparing and submitting a proposal

The proposals should be shared as a one-pager description of the topic you want to present.

Submission format:

A) Page 01 = About the presenter

1. Name of presenter:
2. Company Name:
3. Contact Details:
4. LinkedIn Profile link:

B) Page 02 = The One-pager proposal:

1. Category: A, B, C, E, or E
2. Topic Name:
3. Topic description: Not more than 3 lines
4. The rough structure of your presentation, or a rough Table of content
5. The preferred format is (1) Pecha-Kucha or (2) Speaking slot. 

Review 

The One-pager will be reviewed by our panel and shortlisted entries will be requested to submit their final presentations in PPT format.

You could opt for either of the presentation formats: 

1. Pecha-Kucha (20 x 20 format) 20 slides, and each slide advances automatically after 20 seconds.
2. Elaborate Speaking slots, of 15 Min. including the Question and answers.

At the conference

Accepted presentation proposals will be invited to present during the online conference in 2 separate types of events

1. Pecha-Kucha style quick and precise presentations.
2. Present on a 15 Min Speaking slot.

Submission Details

• One-pager proposal submission Last Date (15th Sept 2020)
• PPT Presentation submission Last date ( 15 Oct 2020)
• Panel members will shortlist, and request presenters to submit Final PPT
• Final PPT submission Date: (30 October 2020)