iDesign Competition

THEME:  VIRTUAL BROWSING

CLIENT: MLibrary
CHALLENGE:  Design an innovative tool which will enhance MLibrary’s discovery environment.

ELIGIBILITY:  Any UM student or team of students
PRIZE:  $2000 for the team with the winning design

INFORMATION:  iDesign Competition Facebook Group

Competitive designs will:

- Enhance the library’s discovery or technology environment
- Address an identified patron need or expectation
- Highlight the library or it’s collections or services in an interesting way
- Have the potential to help shape future library technological development
- Demonstrate viability in the MLibrary environment
- Be effectively communicated via an engaging virtual presence

TIMELINE:

Attend Information Session ..................................................... November 17th / 22nd

Generate design ideas / identify potential team members ...... Nov. 17th – Dec. 2nd

Participate in SOCHI iDesign Design Jam ................................. December 2nd

Submit a Statement of Interest ............................................. January 7th
(Declaring your team’s intention to submit a design.)

Receive assigned client contacts ............................................ January 14th

Team design meetings & consult with client .......................... December – March

Submit Virtual Presence ...................................................... March 29th

Voting on designs online ....................................................... March 29st - April 10th

Pitch design to judges panel & submit proposal ................ April 11th

Finalist presentations & winner announced .......................... April 18th

(Required steps in bold.  All others are optional.)

iDesign is co-sponsored by MLibrary and SI.

iDesign Judging Criteria

1.      Originality

2.      Degree of difficulty of the problem/challenge

3.      Transformative potential  [How far the design advances the way the library serves users]

4.      Usefulness to the Library community  [U of M Library in particular]

5.      Effective application of technologies

6.      Design completeness  [How far the concept has been developed]

7.      Design quality

8.      Effectiveness of the online representation of the design

9.      Clarity and effectiveness of the pitch presentation