Archive for the ‘concept series’ Category
Design Jam Rome #1: Open-Design Spreads Across Italy. Let’s Jam!
A guest blog post by local champion, Cristiano Siri. Design Jam Rome #1, a two-day community collaboration event focused on User Experience Design (UX), where designers, professionals and students – gathered in teams – end up with different solutions in terms of web and mobile applications in response to a common social challenge. Background Based [...]
Design Jam Iasi #1: Intense, Fun & A Rip-Roaring Success, Say Over 50 Jammers!
A guest post by local champion, Dr. Sabin Buraga. The dust has finally settled on Summer Web 2011 and — myself and other local champions Stefan Negru, Dr. Lenuta Alboaie & Andrei Panu — have just about recovered. Phewwww! Background The event, which included the inaugural Design Jam in Romania, saw over 50 keen UX [...]
Community Concepts: Ubiquitous Firefox, Part 2: Solving Tab Proliferation
A guest blog post by community member, David Regev — a philosopher, Firefox enthusiast, and an aspiring interaction designer. Background Just over 2 weeks ago, David asked the question ‘What would web browsers look like today if we redesigned them from scratch?’ during Part 1 of his Ubiquitous Firefox concept. We’d recommend checking out that [...]
Design Jam London #3: All Systems Ready & Raring To Go!
After two successful events, the third London Design Jam is happening on the 2nd of July, thanks to continued support from Mozilla Labs and City University London. Local champions Johanna Kollmann, Joe Lanman, Desigan Chinniah & Franco Papeschi will take learnings from the recent jams across the globe to further improve the format for a [...]
Knight-Mozilla Initiative: Round-Up of the UK #MoJo Tour (Dundee, London & Manchester)
Over the last week and a bit, Michelle Thorne (@thornet) and myself have been on a bit of a road-trip — up, down and around the UK (Dundee, London & Manchester), promoting the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership. These physical events formed part of the whirlwind worldwide schedule and related specifically to the x3 #MoJo challenges. [...]
Design Jam Oxford #1: Time To Wrap-Up A Fast & Furious Jam Session
A guest post by, Al Power one of the local champions from Design Jam Oxford. The first Oxford Design Jam was held on the 14th May, and two weeks later I thought I would collate some of our thoughts now it’s all over. My two co-organisers, Mariana Mota and James Morris were both Design Jam [...]
Student Outreach: Graduate Students at University of Southern Denmark (SDU) take Home Dash for a Spin
An international group of 4 students at University of Southern Denmark’s Mads Clausen Institute (MCI) are currently working on a semester project in cooperation with Mozilla Labs. The project is central to the HCI / Design Studies course within the two-year, studio-based IT Product Design graduate program. Course Description The course HCI / Design Studies, [...]
Design Jam Iasi #1: Romania Opens the Jam Jar as Part of Summer Web 2011
Local champions — Dr. Sabin Buraga (@busaco_), Stefan Negru (@blankdots), Dr. Lenuta Alboaie & Andrei Panu — invite neophytes, apprentices, and experts in Human-Computer Interaction and related fields on 3 & 4 June 2011 to attend the first edition of the Design Jam Iasi, Romania, an event organized in conjunction to Summer Web 2011. Background [...]
