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ProtoJam

What is ProtoJam?

Design competition (no coding involved),

To be held on March 22-24, 2024,

Which will be hosted as a hybrid event (online + in-person).

Links

Free tickets available at:

protojam.eventbrite.com⁠

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Website:

protojam.ca⁠

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Agenda

Friday, March 22: Workshop Day

A day of all virtual workshops accessible to the public (even those not participating in ProtoJam)

Anticipating workshops to happen during the afternoon and evening to minimize schedule conflicts between work and school

Saturday, March 23: Designathon Day 1

11am: Opening Ceremony - accessible in-person and virtually

12pm: Designathon begins

During the designathon (March 23-24), participants are able to ask for assistance or clarification of the design problem from Calgary UX representatives and other volunteer designers over Discord.

Sunday, March 24: Designathon Day 2

12pm: Designathon ends (24 hours after official start)

1pm: Judging will begin in pre-assigned slots - this will happen over Discord

Approx 4pm: Expect judging to finish

6pm: Closing Ceremony (announce winners and more) - accessible in-person and virtually

Calgary UX - Design Problem

This is what Mark wrote from his notes, please feel free to correct or add details.

Talent Tracker

Build bridges between UX talent and clients in a easy-to-use platform

Currently, it’s hard to know who available to work in a community of 4,000 people

Mechanisms to apply for work aren’t perfect, so Calgary UX wants to foster easier ways to connect talent and clients

Want to prevent recruiters who mistreat designers

Transparency and privacy are the priorities, don’t want to keep data for too long

Periodic deletion (?) of data to prevent spamming large lists of people for opportunities

Talent has the ability to take their data out of the system (e.g. if they got a job)

Currently, this initiative exists as a Google Form and spreadsheet

What does ProtoJam ask of?

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Asks

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Task

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1-2 representatives from Calgary UX to be present in the Discord server to provide advice during the designathon (e.g. clarification about design problem, design assistance) and judge final designs

Please promote the event to your community

If possible, we would like a workshop on anything design related. Let us know if you can get the Design Thinking workshop or another one! We currently have workshops on Accessible Design and Data Visualization

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Thanks so much for working with us! Mark and Khushi from

Ada’s Team⁠

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Are you okay to meet on discord?

Are you the only one for judging? (Everything will be organized online 1-4)

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