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17 Feb
2021

Ready to pick up the torch?

Want to help the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) find and recognize the best interaction design in the world today? Now is the time to raise your hand to be considered for the role of Co-Chair for 2022 Interaction Awards.IxDA is a community of doers and makers, so if you watched the 2021 Award Ceremony and thought to yourself, “I’d love to help make the awards program even better,” now’s your chance to step up. Volunteer to lead the program as Co-Chair or lend your skills and time on one of the many work streams for the 2022 awards program.

Why the Interaction Awards matter for our community

Interaction design is about people: how people interact with each other, and how people interact with the world around them. The Interaction Awards celebrate the work done by interaction designers every day, to create meaningful relationships between people and the products and services that they use. The Awards recognize and promote recent outstanding works across domains, platforms, and cultures, highlighting the best examples of interaction design from around the world.For over a decade, the Interaction Awards have celebrated excellence in Interaction Design. By recognizing and honoring best-in-class work, from all over the world, by individuals, companies, and students, we elevate our craft and the perception of our craft.

Expectations for the Awards Co-Chair role

Co-Chairing the Awards program is not easy. To be successful in this role, you’ll need to be comfortable leading with charismatic authority since you and everyone else on the team are volunteers.Here are the main expectations for the Awards Co-Chair role:

  • Able to devote between 5-10 hours a week in meetings and working on team priorities and deliverables from April 2021 to April 2022.
  • Able to assemble and manage a diverse, global team of volunteers across multiple work streams and timezones (it helps if you have a lot of friends in the IxDA community or can make friends quickly!)
  • Willingness to strive towards diversity and inclusion benchmarks.
  • Ability to balance practicality and aspirations from a wide range of inputs to evolve the awards program to best serve the diverse IxDA community.
  • Accountable for delivering key outcomes throughout the year, as determined by you, your team, and IxDA leadership.
  • Communicating and updating progress to the Executive Director and IxDA Board

Apply to lead!

Think you’ve got what it takes to lead this important program? Submit your application to be the 2022 Awards Co-Chair by 15 March 2021.

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2021
10 Feb
2021

And the winner is...

We’re honored to announce the Interaction Award winners for 2021! On 5 February 2021 our community tuned in for the 10th Annual Interaction Awards to celebrate winning projects from all over the world presented via a virtual gala celebration live-streamed thanks to this year’s exclusive Sponsor, Amazon Design.

Watch the Awards!

The recording of the live ceremony in its entirety on the Interaction Awards YouTube channel. Enjoy delightful, real-time reactions from the winners, and catch moving presentations from:

  • 2021 Jury Chair May-Li Khoe and the entire 2021 Jury
  • IxDA Board President Kevin Budelmann
  • Awards co-founders Jenn Bove and Raphael Grignani
  • 2016 Jury Chair, Kim Goodwin
  • Surprise appearances from past winners and Awards Co-chairs
  • Master of ceremonies; 4-time author and co-chair of the very first Interaction Conference, Dan Saffer!

Our 2021 Interaction Awards winners

Best in Category, Connecting‍

Bukas: Material Messages for Filipino Migrant Workers and their Transnational Families

‍The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

‍Best in Category, Disrupting

‍Urinal Design to Cater Muslim Men Better do Istinja Ritual

‍Kohler Design Studio with Somia Customer Experience, Indonesia

‍Best in Category, Empowering

‍Basheer | Teaching computational thinking to novice-technology users

‍Indie Submission, Pakistan

‍Best in Category, Engaging

‍Sniffing out the Differences

‍Sniffing out the differences collective, India

‍Best in Category, Expressing

‍Planet Word, the world’s first interactive museum of language

‍Local Projects, United States

‍Best in Category, Optimizing

‍The Pearl Divers. A musical pavement that brings to life an old emirati tradition

‍Daily tous les jours, Canada

‍Future Voice

‍Feminist Coalition

‍People’s Choice

‍Public Math Postcards

‍Public Math, United States

‍Best Student

‍Agents of Action: Rebuilding the Future

‍Umeå Institute of Design, Netherlands

‍Best Concept

‍Paper Phone

‍Special Projects, England

‍Best in Show

‍Animo – Rehabilitation Game for Young Stroke Patients

‍Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden

2021
30 Jan
2021

Cast your vote and tune in to see who wins

Our vision for the 10th annual Interaction Awards is all about YOU – the 100 thousand plus members of the IxDA community. Leading up to Interaction Week and the Awards Ceremony, we strove to make it easier for you to participate in the Awards with lowered fees, a new “indie/nonprofit” category, and delivering the content of the Awards site in multiple languages. Ultimately, we want to increase the exposure you’ll receive for winning, and to make it clear to you, our community, and the world beyond, what the award means; that your work is best-in-class. We can all point to the winning work and say THAT is excellent Interaction Design!We invite you to celebrate the incredible milestones set this year at our live ceremony on Feb 5th at 7 pm Eastern via the free live-stream on our YouTube channel:

  • 351 submissions - The highest submission count in the history of the awards!
  • Entrants from 39 countries - The most nationalities ever represented!
  • More entries from outside North America for the first time ever!
  • 13 countries represented by the finalists and winners who will be revealed in the Awards ceremony!

An historic celebration for our community!

The products, services, and systems our community designs touch far more people and play a more integrated role in most people’s daily life than most movies so this Awards night is our Golden Globes. We won’t be able to clink champagne glasses together in person, but the awards spectacular will be a celebration on a truly global scale and YOU are invited!You won’t want to miss performances by Box of Beats, and Figma the Musical as well a who-who list of presenters from our community. This year’s jury chair May-Li Khoe, and the entire 2021 Jury will be joining live (another first!) to present awards with community  luminaries such as 2016 Jury Chair, Kim Goodwin, IxDA Board President Kevin Budelmann, Awards creators Jenn Bove and Raphael Grignani, and our master of ceremonies; 4-time author and co-chair of the very first Interaction Conference, Dan Saffer!After the final keynote on Friday, the Award Ceremony will begin at 7 pm EST and you can invite your colleagues and friends to watch too because  - for the first time ever -  will be broadcast as a free, livestream to the world via YouTube thanks to our exclusive sponsor, Amazon Design.

Cast your vote for the People’s Choice Award.

Even if you’re new to the community or just hearing about the Interaction Awards for the very first time, there’s still an important role for you to play in this year’s awards program because one of the awards is chosen entirely by YOU, the IxDA community. Review the shortlisted projects and cast your vote for the People’s Choice award by midnight Feb 4th!

Who will win?

Tune in on Friday to watch the exciting LIVE Awards ceremony as we celebrate the finalists and reveal the winners!

2021 Interaction Awards

‍Exclusively sponsored by Amazon Design

5 February 2021 at 7 pm EST

Watch via the Interaction Conference, or FREE live-stream on YouTube

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2021
14 Jan
2021

Amazon Design makes 2021 Awards accessible to everyone for the first time.

IxDA is pleased to welcome Amazon Design as our exclusive partner in presenting the tenth anniversary edition of the Interaction Awards.

 This partnership demonstrates Amazon’s support of IxDA’s mission to improve the human condition through interaction design.

“Amazon Design is honored to help IxDA make this year’s Interaction Awards presentation accessible to everyone for the first time. We believe that the inspirational work being recognized here will not only challenge practicing professionals but encourage a revolution of future designers to Think Big and do even bigger.” says Corey Dangel, Executive Producer - Amazon Design Community Leader.

As a platform, IxDA provides an opportunity for interaction design professionals from around the world to come together to learn and share. Through the Interaction Awards, that theory and practice is evaluated and celebrated, honoring the very best examples of interaction design.

Over the last decade, the Awards have enabled IxDA to build a living library of Interaction Design case studies that are an open, online resource for professionals, educators, students and the general public. This year, with Amazon’s support, the ceremony will be live streamed at no charge for the global community to attend online.

“IxDA is grateful for this significant commitment from Amazon Design,” said Kevin Budelmann, IxDA President. “As we mark a decade of excellence for this initiative, Amazon’s partnership enables us to make this year’s Interaction Awards presentation accessible to everyone for the first time.”

The Interaction Awards will be presented as the closing event of Interaction 21, taking place online from 3-5 February.

2021
23 Dec
2020

Announcing the 2021 Shortlist

Raise a glass to the shortlist!

After several weeks of hard work by Peer Reviewers, the Awards team, and finally input from our esteemed 2021 Jury, we’re thrilled to share the 43 projects representing 21 countries that have been selected for inclusion into the 2021 Interaction Awards Shortlist!E,

veryone who submitted projects contributed to the incredibly diverse body of work featured in our shortlist. Even if you didn’t make it this year, we deeply value the work you put into your submissions. We’re truly inspired by the overall quality and level of excellence seen throughout all submissions. Whether shortlisted or not, all entrants are warmly encouraged to make their great work the focus of talks, case studies or presentations at IxDA local groups and in classrooms around the world. Congratulations to all for being part of Interaction Design history!‍

Deep gratitude to our community volunteers.

‍One of the many things that makes the Interaction Awards so special is the involvement of the community volunteers who help prepare a shortlist for the jury via intense peer review. Our gratitude also goes to the IxDA members who contributed their valuable time and stewardship to the peer review process.

‍Vote for your pick for the People’s Choice award!

‍Enjoy a tour of the shortlisted projects below and vote for your favorite. Everyone who looks at the entries will walk away with a broader understanding of what interaction design is and how designers can improve peoples’ lives.

All shortlisted projects are eligible for the People’s Choice Award, and online voting is open now. People's Choice voting will close on 4 February 2021, 23:59 EST. To vote, click on an entry below, and then click the big blue button at the top. You'll be taken to a unique for that entry with a vote button at the top.

The entire community is invited to vote! The winner of the coveted People’s Choice Award will be recognized during the Interaction Awards ceremony that will be live-streamed for FREE to the world at 7 pm ET on the 5th of February 2020.

Connecting

Facilitating communication between people and communities

Disrupting

Re-imagining existing systems via new behaviors, usages, or markets

Empowering

Empowering – Helping people to do things they otherwise couldn’t do

Engaging

Engaging – Capturing attention, creating delight and delivering meaning

Expressing

Expressing –  Enabling self expression and/or creativity

Optimizing

Optimizing – Making daily activities more efficient

2021
4 Dec
2020

Who decides the winners?

The submission period for the 2021 Interaction Awards is closed and we are blown away by the work that has been submitted. This year we received submissions from 39 countries! Thank you for truly inspiring and meaningful work from students, independent designers, non-profits, agencies, and businesses in almost every domain. Thank you for all the passion and hard work we can see throughout all your entries. You have contributed to a body of work that, over time, helps IxDA reflect the history of interaction design, as each year’s finalists and winners are added to the IxDA’s library of excellence.If you entered work, you might be wondering what happens next and who decides the winners? There are many things that make the Interaction Awards unique and one of them is our judging process — a process that includes you and your expertise. You, the practitioner, are the voice of the IxDA community and we invite you to join us in selecting the best examples of interaction design excellence, first by joining the global peer review team and then again by voting for the People’s Choice Award. The process looks like this:

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Peer Review

Community volunteers from IxDA’s local groups all over the world review ALL of the submissions to identify a shortlist of approximately 75 of the best entries. A call for peer reviewers went out earlier this year through our global network of IxDA Local Groups and social media inviting you and other designers, academics, and leaders from around the world to sign up as peer reviewers. This year’s high response is one of the reasons we love the IxDA community – over 160 community volunteers raised a hand to help with the peer review process! Thank you!The peer review process is simple. Each peer reviewer is assigned a small subset of entries that they rate and evaluate against established criteria. Every submission is scored by multiple peer reviewers to narrow down hundreds of submissions to a shortlist of about 75 entries - ten to twelve submissions that are considered for each award category.

Jury Deliberation

Under the guidance of the 2021 Jury Chair May-Li Khoe, our esteemed Jury will engage in an intense deliberation process to select finalists and winners in each of the six categories. Typically this is done in person over a weekend but due to the pandemic, this year’s jury deliberation, like everything else this year, will be convened remotely as a mix of synchronous jury work and pairs of jurors working independently during studio times.The Jury will carefully review the incredible body of work from all over the world, evaluating each entry based on context, opportunity, impact, and craft. It’s a daunting task we ask of them.Given the astonishing quality of the work submitted this year, the process of selecting finalists and winners worthy of international recognition will be very, very, hard. The Jury will first narrow down each category’s shortlist to a smaller set of finalists, roughly 30 finalists total. Second, they will select a winner in each category  – the very best of the best. And finally, they will select the “best of’s” for concept, student, and show. You can imagine, as they progress, the discussions and decisions get more and more difficult.

Community Voting

All shortlisted projects are eligible for the People’s Choice Award, not just the finalists! Shortlisted work is featured on the Awards site so the community of 100k+ IxDA members can review the work and cast their vote for the People’s Choice Award. While most of the award winners are selected by the Jury, perhaps the most meaningful award is the People’s Choice Award as it reflects the voice of the IxDA community. Once the shortlist is chosen by the peer review volunteers, each member of the global community of over 100k IxDA members is invited to cast a vote for the submission they feel is the best.Community Voting officially starts in December (watch the website for the exact date) and ends the night before the ceremony at 11:59 pm (Pacific Standard Time) on 4 February, 2020.

Winners Announced

The winners in each category will be announced during the 10th Annual Interaction Awards ceremony that marks the conclusion of Interaction Week.For the last decade, the Interaction Awards Ceremony has become a gala event that  marks the final celebration of Interaction Week. The winning projects are announced and spotlighted as we bestow the trophies to each category winner, Best Student Project, Best Concept, Best in Show, People’s Choice, and Future Voice winners, and the Future Voice winner. This year we won’t be able to pop champagne in person, but the star-studded event will be presented by community luminaries in a virtual ceremony that will be live-streamed for free to the entire world.We can’t wait to celebrate the shortlist, finalists, and winners with you! To all of you who have submitted such incredible work, to our legion of peer reviewers, our bad-ass hard working jury, and to the awards team who are working to make this year’s awards cycle come together despite the hard factors that keep us physically apart, we thank you for making the 2021 Interaction Awards awesome.

2021
13 Nov
2020

2021 Awards Jury Announced

We are beyond thrilled to announce the Jury for the 2021 Interaction Awards.From our 2021 Jury Chair, May-Li Khoe:

Together, the Jury’s experiences represent fields from speculative design to game design; early to late stage careers; organizations in entertainment, education, business to business, and more; very early stage companies to very established institutions; hardware, software, art, activism, teaching; and everything in between. They also bring with them a vast array of intercultural perspectives and backgrounds, having straddled cultures, places, and fields, and having created change both with the margins and at the center. Above all, they each have a track record of embodying the spirit of investing in and creating community; in addition to their own design work, they’ve all founded or organized efforts that give back to our field and the world at large.

Catt Small

Brooklyn, NY, USATwitter  | LinkedIn | cattsmall.comCatt is a Product Designer at Asana, a game maker, and developer and co-organizer of the Game Devs of Color Expo. With a design career spanning over ten years, she has done design work for companies of all sizes including Etsy, SoundCloud, and Nasdaq. She is interested in ways to increase empathy through interactive media. Many of her personal projects focus on issues related to interpersonal relationships, self-expression, gender, and race.

Andrés Burbano

Bogotá, ColombiaTwitter | burbane.netAndrés is an Associate Professor of the Department of Design at the Universidad de los Andes. He is also a  researcher, and interdisciplinary artist whose work ranges from documentary video (in both science and art), to sound installation and telecommunication art. The spectrum of his research includes: media archaeology of Latin America, 3D-modelling of Photogrammetry technology and data-translation into digital media.

Dara Oke

Los Angeles, CA, USATwitter | LinkedIn | daraoke.coDara is a Product Designer at Netflix and Founder of Afriquette - a media platform showcasing identity, culture, and creativity across Africa and its diaspora. Her career has included product and engineering at Microsoft, Twitter, Intel. Previously she lived and worked in West and Southern Africa, supporting early-stage startups, building creative community, and researching innovation and development across emerging and frontier markets.

Una Lee

Vermont, USATwitter | LinkedIn | andalsotoo.netUna Lee is a graphic designer, co-design facilitator, and design justice advocate. Her designs have been stuffed in neighbourhood mailboxes, presented at the UN headquarters in Geneva, used to successfully exert political pressure on the Canadian House of Commons, and remixed in local community organizing efforts around the world. In addition to directing And Also Too, Una is also Allied Media Projects' design director. She founded the Consentful Tech Project and is a co-founder of the Design Justice Network.

Ari Melenciano

Brooklyn, NY, USATwitter | LinkedIn | ariciano.comAri is the founder of Afrotectopia, a social institution fostering interdisciplinary innovation at the intersections of art, design, technology, Black culture and activism through collaborative research and practice. She is a designer, creative technologist and researcher who is passionate about the relationships between various forms of design and sentient experiences. She teaches creative technology and design at NYU ITP and the Pratt Institute's Communications Design school.

Andrea Mignolo

San Francisco, CA, USATwitter | LinkedIn | pnts.usAndrea is a designer, speaker, and writer interested in systems, complexity, decoloniality, and learning. By day she is an executive coach who works with unconventional leaders to develop capacity, connect with inner knowing, cultivate power, and lead with clarity. By night she is the Vice President of the IxDA serving on the global Board of Directors. Prior to coaching, Andrea was a design and product executive at a number of start-ups, an English teacher at the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, and the developer of the once-popular Oulipo Wordpress Theme.Join us cheering this incredibly badass jury and submit your work for consideration! Remember, the submission deadline is extended to Sunday, 15 November at 11:59 PDT so you still have time to enter your work!Also! A reminder that we’ve expanded this year’s submission guidelines so you can submit in ANY language. Fees were reduced to make submission more affordable, and our content is being translated by a global mix of IxDA Local Leaders all over the world. All of this is part of our ongoing commitment to embodying inclusion and diversity to ensure all individuals and groups have equal opportunity to submit work and be reviewed.

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2021
8 Nov
2020

Welcome indie makers and designers!

Hello IxDA Community 👋🏽

I’m so excited to announce that this year, for the first time ever, IxDA is able to provide a discount for indie and non-profit submissions. Thanks to feedback from artist-designer April Soetarman, we realized that people working independently may not be able to enter without a bit of a boost. The team took this feedback and made it happen. We hope that it encourages those of you we know are out there, making magic happen on a shoestring budget, out of your own deep independent creative drive.Here’s a quick refresher on why submitting is a great idea:

  • Shortlisted entries receive 1 FREE registration to the Interaction 21 conference (this saves you a considerable amount of money!)
  • Winning and finalist work is added to a living library to help people discover the best work, the people behind it, trends, insights, and more – now and for history (so far… 10 years of it!)
  • Winning and finalist work is featured throughout the year through all of IxDA’s channels (great publicity)
  • Your work will be looked at carefully by other professionals, including the amazing jury we’re putting together, which can lead to great connections and future serendipity
  • The process of putting together your submission is a great way to reflect and tell the story of what you’ve been doing, something we often don’t do nearly enough (I am guilty of this)

The Interaction Awards both reflect and shape the field, and I’d love to see a spread of work that represents the amazing variety of what’s happening in interaction design today. This includes the fascinating design happening in games, play-related work, and projects outside the realm of digital design. I also hope to see more projects that creatively address inequitable structures, examining issues like surveillance capitalism and police brutality.

Remember: IxDA is committed to advancing the practice of Interaction Design, and your submissions help define what that means. From the About page: “We’re not a professional organization in the traditional sense: we don’t care if you call yourself an interaction designer or not.”

So, if your work involves designing interactions – whether those are between people and systems, people and game consoles, people and people, people and spaces, people and computers, people and objects, people and nature, even nature with nature – we want to see your work! The deadline is extended to Sunday, 15 November at 11:59 PDT so you have one more week to submit!

“Winning the IxDA award helped me make KonneKt reality and bring it to over 220 hospitals in 18 countries.” – Job Jansweijer, Winner 2014“

Thanks to IxDA, my project got noticed a lot more and ended up being published in a book by the MIT Press.” – Sreyan Ghosh, Finalist 2017

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2021
31 Oct
2020

Deadline extension — 2 more weeks to submit your best work!

We’re happy to announce the new extended submission deadline of Sunday, 15 November at 11:59 PDT.

This year, it’s easier than ever for individuals, students, and companies to submit work:

  • Entry fees have been reduced by 50%
  • Students can enter their first project for FREE
  • Submissions are accepted in ANY language
  • No video is required for first round submissions
  • Any work done in the last 2 years is eligible

If you’re worried that your work couldn’t compare, check out our last blog post for examples of why you should ignore that negative voice in your head.Have any questions? Check out our Help section for FAQs or ask us awards@ixda.org‍

The entries already submitted definitely have our attention. We’re seeing amazing work from all over the world and we’d love to see YOUR work submitted for consideration as well. Be part of design history!

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2021
26 Oct
2020

Your time to shine — Award submission deadline is 31 Oct!

In February every year, the IxDA community celebrates the winners of the Interaction Awards. As “the Oscars” of the Interaction Design industry, the Interaction Award is so prestigious that even to be a finalist bestows credibility to the designers, school, or company involved. They are, by the simple virtue of their selection, deemed to be the best.

Your work deserves consideration.

Winning the Interaction Award helps YOU stand out.‍

As each designer and entity (school, agency, or organization) strives to stand out in an increasingly competitive and changing market, winning the Interaction Award sets you apart from competitors and differentiates the quality of your achievements from others.You might be working on an important, beautifully designed “thing” right now but no one will ever know that it’s best-in-class unless you have the courage to submit your work for an award.

“Winning the Interaction Award has helped us underline our experience and expertise in an increasingly challenging marketplace, it has also helped us win clients from around the world. Our award for Moot helped us engage with the Irish government to design gov.ie, a major piece of state infrastructure and channel for delivery of govt services in Ireland.” – Frank Long, Co-Owner & Director at Frontend.com, Winner 2018 - Moot - Make democracy great again
"Winning the IxDA award helped me make KonneKt reality and bring it to over 220 hospitals in 18 countries."– Job Jansweijer, User Experience Specialist at Valsplat, Winner 2014 - KonneKt: a social game for isolated children in the hospital

You still might be hesitant to enter.

Don’t be. We invite you to gently ignore that dialog in your mind that might be saying your work couldn’t compare.Here are some common hesitations people express about submitting their work for the Awards and why you should not let any of these reasons keep you from submitting:

‍I don’t have time to fill out the submission form.

‍We understand how busy you might be so we’ve made the submission form easier than ever. No video is required, you can submit your work in any language, and you can simply tell the story of your work by sharing images and answering less than a dozen questions.

‍I can’t afford the submission fees.

‍In response to 2020 being… well 2020, entry FEES ARE REDUCED BY 50%!  We aim to make award submissions accessible to everyone during these challenging circumstances. Additionally, Students enter their first project for FREE.

‍I work on an established product. Isn’t this for new products and services?

‍No. The Interaction Awards celebrate impactful design, be it with new or established products and services. Maybe you’ve redesigned a part of your product; or perhaps you’ve incorporated something new into your service. Did the new work address the opportunity area? Have you seen impact? Share your story!

‍I’m not an Interaction Designer. We have no one with that title working on our project.

‍It doesn’t matter what you are (or aren’t) called. Interaction Design is about designing a product or service that enables people to interact with an object, another person, a system, a service, and does so with impact to an opportunity area. What matters is that you understand the people you’re making your product/service for, and your solution has great impact addressing an identified opportunity for them.

‍I have a concept but I haven’t built it.

‍Conceptual projects are welcome! All you need to do in your entry is to explain how your concept shows potential impact to the people for whom you’ve designed, be it through prototyping or concept evaluation.I don’t have a glossy video, so why even bother?No video is required for the first round of submission. This is the first year that a video is not required. Shortlisted projects will have a chance to add video but even then, it’s not about production value; this is about your story about the work and why it deserves recognition. It can be as simple as sitting in front of the camera and telling us about your work and impact. You can show other people engaging with your product and service. It’s your chance to demonstrate impact beyond what your written words and images could do.

‍We don’t work for a big agency, and our project doesn’t have a big budget.

‍That doesn’t matter. We encourage you to take a look at the previous winners and finalists. You’ll see commercial and conceptual works from a mix of big agencies, small shops, in-house designers, consultants, entrepreneurs, non-profits, and students. We care about great design. Who you are, where you are, and the size of your budget does not factor into the decision.

Need to convince your manager, school, or other people in your organization?

Share this blog post or use the example message below:

Hey team!

Winning the Interaction Award is a helpful reputation-building accolade for prospective clients and employees so I'd like to strongly advocate for us submitting recent projects for consideration of the Interaction Design Awards.

This year it’s easier than ever for individuals, students, and companies to submit work:

  • Entry fees have been reduced by 50%
  • Submissions are accepted in ANY language
  • No video is required for first round submissions
  • Any work done in the last 2 years is eligible

All we need to enter the Awards is a clear explanation of the project and why it deserves the Interaction Award along with a few images that show the work.

‍The deadline is 31 October 2020. Let’s shine a light on the excellent design work we’re doing!

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2021
23 Oct
2020

2021 Jury Chair: May-Li Khoe

The Jury Chair is one of the most vital roles for the Interaction Awards to fill each year – helping curate and lead the jury, while ensuring the very best work is recognized. This person also takes on the responsibility of accounting for diversity, and responding to submissions ethically in a way that reflects the global community.

Design In Perilous Times is our theme for Interaction 21, and as part of Interaction Week, the Awards team is excited to see submissions that address the issues facing the world today. It was important to consider the context of design in the world today, and search for a Jury Chair with diverse experience to focus on the shifts happening to our community and the people for whom we design. With this in mind, the Awards committee is thrilled to announce that May-Li Khoe will be leading the judging process as the 2021 Interaction Awards Jury Chair!

May-Li is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher-designer-inventor who combines invention with cultural practices, bright colors, faces-on-things, and glitter. She most recently served as VP of Design at Khan Academy. Before that, she worked on new technologies at Apple. May-Li has worked with organizations ranging from IBM Research, the MIT Media Lab, and Dynamicland, to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Universal Music Group, and Oakland Museum of California. She also DJs, dances, and cultivates joyful ways to subvert the status quo.

May-Li’s body of work, and passion for diversity and inclusion make her the perfect person to head the 2021 Interaction Awards Jury.

Reflecting on her role as 2021 jury chair, May-Li Khoe said:

‍I’m so excited and honored to chair the 2021 Interaction Awards jury. Especially given all that's going on in the world right now, it feels great to reflect on, recognize, and celebrate the ways we can make a positive difference with our work as interaction designers. As we welcome more and more people into the field, it's inspiring to see how despite sometimes great odds, designers are pushing boundaries, questioning things, and forging new paths forward.
In addition to games, play-related work, and projects outside the realm of digital design, including immersive, experimental, and human-systems design, I hope to see more entries that creatively address issues like surveillance capitalism and police brutality. I want entrants to know how valued their work is, and how excited we are to see it. Many designers might be intimidated to enter their work. I hope they do it anyway; everything I've ever done in life has been despite my own massive nagging doubts. So don't let those doubts stop you! We'd love you to surprise us – we'd love to see us grow the range of the work and see a very wide variety.

‍As Jury Chair, May-Li will be selecting and leading a group of esteemed design professionals in an online jury session to judge the entries. The full jury will be announced later this year.Reminder: The 2021 Interaction Awards are open for submission NOW and through 31 October 2020.

This year we’ve made it easier than ever for individuals, students, and companies to submit their work:

  • Entry fees have been reduced by 50%
  • Submissions are accepted in ANY language
  • No video is required for first round submissions

Shine a light on the excellent design work you’re doing!

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2021
30 Sep
2020

Pssst! We’ve launched a podcast!

The 2021 Interaction Awards cycle is in full swing! Submissions are open and we’re seeing amazing work from our community coming in from all over the world. The Awards team is working overtime to help get the word out to ensure that the submissions reflect the diversity of our community, and meet our goal to shine the spotlight on the best examples of our craft from all parts of the globe, and from as diverse a range of creators as possible. And, we’re even trying a few new ideas this year, and preparing a few surprises for the community!

Even though the Awards have been going for 10 years, many people in our community still don’t know that there’s an award that celebrates excellence in our craft. Others think of the Awards merely as a ceremony at the end of Interaction Week right before the final party. Yes, there is an Awards ceremony, but there’s so much more.  The Awards help us communicate to the world, “This is how great interaction design looks and behaves.” So, to help us celebrate these examples of excellence in our craft, and share the amazing stories behind the design we’ve launched a podcast!

Say “hello” to the Distinguished Design podcast!

‍What is the show about?

‍Distinguished Design a bi-weekly interview show where the world’s greatest interaction design practitioners are queried by the show's co-hosts, two seasoned IxDA community members: Diego Pulido the Lead Interaction Designer at Adobe and and Nisha Agrawal founder of the digital product agency AGL based in Singapore. Together they unpack the stories of the real people involved with the Awards, including volunteers, esteemed jurors, and of course the finalists and winners.

‍How can I listen to the show?

‍Distinguished Design is available on Spotify and Apple, and soon on all the other platforms.‍

When does the show launch?

‍Today! with 3 episodes already live and ready to enjoy.

‍How can I support the show?

‍Subscribe on Spotify or Apple (soon on Google and others), leave a review, and tell the world about the show on Linkedin and Twitter.

‍What else is special about this podcast?

‍You’ll get tips from past winners and jurors about what makes a winning entry and get into the nitty gritty of how actual practitioners bring such winning work to life. Upcoming episodes of Distinguished Design will explore what makes a great submission, how winning the award can enhance your career, and deep insights into the trends in our craft that the awards foreshadow. Enjoy deep dives into the delightful wins, juicy behind-the-scenes lessons, and thoughtful forecasts about the evolution of interaction design.

This is the IxDA’s first globally focused podcast, so we hope you’re patient while we learn and improve our podcast craft. Have an idea for an episode? Thoughts on an interview? Tweet us your idea at @ixdawards. Keep the discussion alive and promote the Awards!

‍Reminder: The 2021 Interaction Awards are open for submission NOW and through 31 October 2020. If you want to shine a light on the excellent design work you’re doing, submit your work before the 31 October deadline.

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2021
25 Aug
2020

A love letter to the Interaction Awards

It is a new Awards year, and while it has been a unique and challenging year so far, the start of a new cycle has us reminiscing about the Awards in years past.

Since the Awards were founded in 2012, the two of us have attended all 10 ceremonies. We have both come to think of the Awards, which are usually held on the final night of the conference, as the crescendo to a week of seeing our international cadre of design friends and heroes. The Awards ceremony has always been our opportunity to end Interaction Week with inspiration. It has been our moment to come together as a community, support each other, and look forward to the next year.

We love this community and Awards program as a way to celebrate Interaction Design excellence across domains, channels, environments and cultures. And so we volunteered to help orchestrate the 2021 Awards. This is our way of expressing our enduring love for this community and the Awards as a way of celebrating each other.

As co-chairs we asked ourselves?

  • How could we build on what’s worked in the past and make it even better in the future?
  • Can inspiring Awards programs help our design community and the people who hire us appreciate the range and importance of interaction design?

Just as our vision for the Awards was beginning to solidify, the pandemic changed everything. As COVID-19 has transformed the world, so too has it affected the upcoming 2021 Interaction Conference and the Awards. This will be the first time the Awards will be completely virtual with no physical interaction possible, but we’re using this as an opportunity to improve the Awards process including the interaction, exposure, and perception of the Awards.

‍Big Diversity

‍We have ambitious goals for this new Awards year. We knew we couldn’t tackle it alone, so we opened a call for volunteers. We knew from the jump that we wanted a team that represented the true diversity of the global community, so even that initial call was translated into several languages and shared through IxDA’s broad network to reach as many people as possible. We were thrilled to have an international response. We kicked off our first official meeting with a “ways of working” workshop in which we discussed our goals and expectations for the new year, and aligned on ways of collaborating together on the many workstreams.  We also created a new workstream this year focused on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Belonging (DIEB) to help ensure that everything we do, from the Awards team, to the way submissions are entered and judged, and even in the ceremony and winners, is a reflection of our global community’s diversity.

‍Award Submissions are Open!

‍Our team has taken great care to cast a wider net so that the Awards can shine a light on the very best work, regardless if it comes in a glossy package or from a shoestring budget. For the first time, entrants may submit their work in ANY LANGUAGE and no video is required, which helps make it easier for all designers to submit their work. If you want to shine a light on the excellent design work you’re doing, head over to the Awards site to submit before the 31 October deadline!

‍Library of Excellence

‍The Awards highlight best-in-class Interaction Design for an active community of over 100,000k members worldwide. It culminates with the winners announced during the annual Interaction Week conference and showcased thereafter within the IxDA’s living library of excellence. This year’s Awards team is working on a new Awards website that creates a more interactive experience with this living library of excellence. Stay tuned for this new site in mid 2021.

There are many other exciting changes underway that we’ll be sharing in this blog over the coming months. For now, we’d just like to say welcome to the 2021 Award program and please be sure to submit your work for recognition. We are here to celebrate the very best work together!By Award co-chairs, Angel Anderson & Rob Nero

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Pictured from left: Rob Nero (Co-Chair), Nasir Barday (Recognition Co-Lead), Nuzi Barkatally (Communications Co-Lead), Angel Anderson (Co-Chair), Diego Pulido (Content/Podcast Co-Lead). All on the 2021 Awards Team.

2021
21 Jul
2020

🚨 Calling all Designers ⁠— help us scout for the world’s best projects

Dear global IxDA community,

Peer review is the most important process in the annual IxDAwards because it’s designers like you that determines who make the shortlist every year. We’re looking for a small band of experienced designers from around the world to review the hundreds of submissions with us and select the official shortlist beginning on 1 October 2019. This process is open to all IxDA members.

Even if you or your company has submitted an entry, you’re still qualified to judge other entries. We’ll just request that you don’t review your own.

What do Peer Reviewers do?

Peer Reviewers participate in a private online review process to select the 2020 shortlist for approximately a 8–10-hour commitment over a week’s time. The process will begin around 8-18 October 2019.

Afterwards, shortlisted entries are then evaluated by a diverse and accomplished international jury who will select Finalists and Winners. This process is what makes the Interaction Awards distinct from other awards programs: the voice of the global practitioner community is at the foundation of curating the winners.

Your commitment and perks as a Peer Reviewer:

  • Review at least 10 submissions that are submitted for the awards this year
  • Free submission for a project for next year’s Interaction Awards
  • Access to the IxDAwards meet-and-greet networking event at Interaction20 (Ticket not required)
  • Sneak peak into global design trends around the world

Get Involved

Join us by filling out the form below. It takes 30 seconds.

📨 Watch your inbox around 1 October 2019 for more details

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2020
24 Feb
2020

Announcing our 2020 Winners

This year’s Interaction Awards projects had difficult and diverse problems in their sights: from improving the lives of asthma patients to building an interactive world of play, to optimizing hotel housekeeping management to teaching kids coding, the 2020 Finalists tackled issues both practical and playful and were compassionate yet ambitious.

On 7 February 2020, the winners were revealed at the annual Interaction Awards ceremony on the closing night of Interaction Week 2020 in Milan, Italy. The range of work answers the question, “What is interaction design?” by showcasing that there is no one answer. The honorees are 12 projects from a shortlist of 68, selected by an international jury from 202 submissions representing 24 countries. Notably, this year’s Awards include the first Best in Show project from India, which accounted for almost 10% of this year’s submissions.

Without further ado, we are honored to present the winners of the 2020 Interaction Awards!

BEST IN SHOW

Our goal with Simple is to make clinicians’ work life easier and to improve patient outcomes across entire populations.

Simple‍

Obvious x RTSL, India (Professional)
Hypertension is a “silent killer.” While easily treatable, one in four adults in India are hypertensive, tending to neglect their treatment because it is asymptomatic. 90% of 200 million hypertensive adults are not on regular treatment. Simple is an app that helps busy clinicians to manage hypertensive patients by tracking their blood pressure and medications and ensuring, through regular check-ups, that patients stay on treatment.
Today, Simple is used in 400 rural hospitals and clinics to manage 130,000+ patients. Simple will be rolled out to most Indian states, Ethiopia, and Bangladesh in 2020. At this time next year, we anticipate having more than a million patients managed in Simple.

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BEST IN CATEGORY

CONNECTING

Facilitating communication between people and communities

‘Enhans’ is a system designed to improve doctor-patient communication within the NeuroImaging and Interventional Radiology (NIIR) Department at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in Bangalore, India.

Enhans — Reimagining Doctor-Patient Communication at NIMHANS‍

Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, India (Student)
This student project consists of a collection of interventions that are designed to reduce miscommunication between doctors and patients. The interventions include animated explainer videos, audiovisual consent forms, interactive pamphlets, and an application that holds all the collaterals together.

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DISRUPTING

Re-imagining completely an existing product or service by creating new behaviors, usages or markets

The world’s cities are facing explosive growth. Over the next 30 years, cities will grow by 2+ billion people. This requires building higher, denser and faster than before — while also providing high living quality and sustainable urban environments. Achieving this is a global challenge, recognized by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Spacemaker: Design better cities with AI‍

Spacemaker, Norway (Professional)‍

Spacemaker has developed a game-changing AI technology that helps architects, urban planners, property developers and municipalities to discover smarter ways to maximize the potential of a building site. This means saving time, realizing high quality living spaces, and achieving more livable areas in dense city environments.

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EMPOWERING

Helping people to do things they otherwise couldn’t do

In 2013 I attended a concert where I lost some of my high-frequency hearing and gained tinnitus due to an acoustic trauma. It completely changed the way I experienced the world and sound; as a former classical singer, that was a big shift.

Form‍

School of Visual Arts, United States (Student)‍

Form is a blanket and music-therapy tool that translates audio music into varied, haptic feedback for pediatric patients who are deaf or hearing impaired, who have varied body shapes, sizes, and abilities.

Pediatric patients who are deaf or profoundly hearing impaired rely on the tangible aspects of music to gain benefit from music therapy, a creative and clinical practice that can play a key role in their multi-faceted growth and development.

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ENGAGING

Capturing attention, creating delight and delivering meaning

Interactive Play at Sesame Street Land is a brand-new experience at SeaWorld, Orlando, with twelve interactive opportunities for kids to explore the show’s iconic neighborhood like never before. For many families, a day at a theme park is usually spent trying to corral children from touching everything. At Sesame Street Land it’s not only encouraged, but kids are at the heart of the land’s design.

Interactive Play at Sesame Street Land, SeaWorld Orlando‍

SeaWorld Orlando & Sesame Street, United States (Professional)

The focus at Sesame Street Land is always on fun (we are in a theme park, after all!), but in true Sesame Street fashion, early learning goals are subtly hidden behind each interactive. Starting with over 30 original interactive concepts, our team worked closely with Early Learning expert, Dr. Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, and the Sesame Workshop curriculum team, to better understand how children learn and grow through play. Just like on the show, all of this playful learning is cleverly disguised by the characters’ trademark humor, reinforcing the brand’s core values of inspiring kids to be smarter, stronger, and kinder with each visit to Sesame Street Land.

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EXPRESSING

Enabling self expression and/or creativity

The idea of Stic Stac Code blocks was born when I realised that most of the augmented reality (AR) based mobile applications out there let children only consume digital content …. Creativity lies in the power of Making and Tinkering and I believe a better part of technology should be designed to foster learning.

Stic Stac Code Blocks‍

University of the Arts Bremen, Germany (Student)
Stic Stac Code Blocks is designed for children in the age group of 9–14 years and cover several interesting design considerations like:

  • It lets children CREATE unique content like Stories, Music, Pixel art, Games etc. in a more immersive augmented environment.
  • Instead of touchscreen-based interactions, children’s physical interaction with wooden blocks and Controller provides more natural haptic feedback.

The work is based on 14 months of research work at the Digital Media Education Bremen and the University of the Arts, Bremen, Germany.

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OPTIMIZING

Making daily activities more efficient

In the design process, we found out several opportunities to innovate in streamlining a hotel’s rooms assignment task and inter-departmental coordination for faster resolution of guest requests and room turnover. … We learned how cultural and demographic differences should be considered when creating a digital product that works for low wage workers on a global scale.

Innovating Housekeeping with ALICE‍

ALICE, United States (Professional)‍

Housekeeping is a very big deal for hotels. It is by far the largest and most expensive department. With rising labor costs, complex operations and high employee turnover, it remains a top challenge in the hotel industry. Housekeeping operations includes several pain points for users involved.

ALICE Housekeeping creates a direct line of communication among managers, supervisors and room attendants and other departments, improves the transparency of the department’s operations and ultimately get guests into rooms faster. Released in June 2019, ALICE Housekeeping speeds up the room assignment process in 80% and is currently being used by beta customers. 250 properties across the world have signed up for it.

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BEST CONCEPT

TAMI proposes a fun, engaging and hands-on experience during the initial stages of learning trigonometry: fostering free exploration where mistakes are allowed, and learning is achieved through discovery.

TAMI‍

School of Design, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile (Professional)‍

TAMI (Tangible Mathematics Interface) is a tabletop interface with tangible controllers that when manipulated modify mathematical models on a screen and modulates sound elements. Using multiple senses (touch, vision, hearing) makes the experience richer and provides different ways of understanding abstract concepts. TAMI supports collaborative interaction, where a group of students gather and interact with the interface.

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BEST STUDENT

Living with asthma is a long term journey, and improving the treatment process would increase patients’ well being, without limiting their activities.

Otto — Improving daily asthma management‍

Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden (Student)‍

For many asthmatics, the daily routines of asthma management can be a complex process entailing; monitoring the condition, logging results and inhaling the medicine in the right way. Life-long treatment often has a huge impact on people’s daily life. For an asthmatic regular, the measuring of one’s condition and tracking in the long term, is crucial to learn their own triggers. With several products and routines, living with asthma can be a constant daily challenge. Otto creates one seamless experience and redefines the asthma treatment process.

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PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD

Innovating Housekeeping with ALICE‍

ALICE, United States (Professional)‍

The People’s Choice Award was selected through public voting by the IxDA community between 1 January and 6 February 2020. This year, almost 10,000 votes were cast to select our honoree from the shortlist of 68 projects.

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FUTURE VOICE AWARD

In selecting this year’s Future Voice Award, I found myself looking at designers who are looking around at how do human beings interact with the planet … In brief, Precious Plastics is trying to solve the horrific environmental crisis of the waste of ocean plastics … what I’m recognizing is tens of thousands of individuals around the world who are bringing out their own Interaction Designer … addressing some of the most problematic carnages that come from how we live on this world.

Precious Plastics Community

United States, (Professional)
The Future Voice Award is selected annually by the Jury Chair, in consultation with the members of the jury. It can recognize a project that is from the current year’s submissions, but it not limited to the pool of entries. Created in 2013, the Future Voice Award is intended to highlight work that demonstrates the profound potential of Interaction Design, which at its heart deals with the dynamics and depth of human relationship and conversation. Recognizing its recipient celebrates evidence of what Interaction Design could choose to become.

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The 2021 Interaction Awards mark the 10th anniversary of the program. The Interaction Awards are committed to furthering participation from all regions of the world, transparency in the selection process, and providing a platform to showcase interaction design work that demonstrates IxDA’s mission of improving the human condition through the advancement of the practice.

2020
1 Jan
2020

People’s Choice voting is now open!

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The IxDAwards are all about celebrating excellence in design across the world. Even though most of the award winners are selected by a jury, perhaps the most meaningful award is the People’s Choice Award as it reflects the voice of the IxDA community.

Voting is officially open until 6 February! Submit your vote for your favorite Shortlisted project this year. The project with the most votes wins and will be announced along with other winners on stage during the 2020 Interaction Awards on 7 February at Interaction20 in Milan, Italy.

How to Vote

It’s simple and only takes a few minutes.

  1. Review the shortlisted projects.
  2. Find the project of your choice.
  3. Vote! You’ll find a “Vote for this submission” button on your page.
  4. Share with friends, family, and colleagues! The more votes you get, the better your chances.

Voting Rules

  1. All shortlisted projects are eligible for People’s Choice (not just finalists).
  2. You may vote once per day.
  3. Voting officially ends on 11:59 pm (Pacific Standard Time) on 6 February.

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Make your voice heard and vote today!

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2020
16 Dec
2019

Announcing the 2020 Interaction Awards Finalists!

Congratulations to the 2020 Interaction Awards finalists, all of whom will be celebrated in February during Interaction 20 in Milan, Italy.

Which work will be recognized as the Best Student Project? Best Concept? Best in Show? Who will our jury chair Dan Makoski honor with the 2020 Future Voice Award? Details will be revealed on Friday evening, 7 February 2020 at the Interaction Awards ceremony.  See you there!

[Tickets are required to attend. Stay tuned to our social media channels for as to when they go live.]

CONNECTING:

Facilitating communication between people and communities

DISRUPTING:‍

Re-imagining completely an existing product or service by creating new behaviors, usages or markets

EMPOWERING:‍

Enabling people to go beyond their limits

ENGAGING:‍

Capturing attention, creating delight and delivering meaning

EXPRESSING:‍

Encouraging self expression and/or creativity

OPTIMIZING:‍

Making daily activities more efficient

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2020
31 Oct
2019

The 2020 Interaction Awards Shortlist

After several weeks of intense reviewing by our talented and hardworking peer reviewers, we’re excited to announce the shortlist for the 2020 Interaction Awards!

Everyone who submitted projects contributed to the incredibly diverse body of work featured in our shortlist. Even if you didn’t make it this year, we value tremendously the work you put into your submissions.

In our shortlist, you’ll see student concepts alongside professional work from around the world. Domains covered by our shortlist members include education, political discourse, health, creative arts, government, branding & marketing, social science, and music, to name a few. And most importantly, the audience that these projects aim to help and empower range from the young to old, from the social to the introverted, from the comfortable to those who need comforting.

We couldn’t be prouder to show off the incredible design talent setting their sights to take on the world’s challenges.

CONNECTING:

Facilitating communication between people and communities

DISRUPTING:‍

Capturing attention, creating delight and delivering meaning

EMPOWERING:‍

Enabling people to go beyond their limits

ENGAGING:‍

Encouraging self expression and/or creativity

EXPRESSING:‍

Re-imagining completely an existing product or service by creating new behaviors, usages or markets

OPTIMIZING:‍

Making daily activities more efficient

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2020
9 Oct
2019

Dan Makoski: Our 2020 Jury Chair

Join us in welcoming Dan Makoski as our Jury Chair for the 2020 Interaction Awards!

Every year the Interaction Awards Co-Chairs choose the Jury Chair. The Jury Chair helps confirm the Jury Committee and they also play an active role in evaluating the submissions. After much deliberation and many well-qualified candidates, this year’s Co-Chairs, Jenn Sarich Harvey and Fabricio Dore, decided to extend the invitation to Dan Makoski. “We were so excited to hear that he said yes,” said Dore. “Dan’s experience has been in tech, retail, and banking, building an impressive career and creating impact across all these sectors. He’s a pioneer and explorer of the design world. He takes design to board meetings and to the millions of users impacted by his work.”

Dan Makoski is Chief Design Officer at Lloyds Banking Group, leading a multi-disciplinary human-centred team with the singular goal of helping Britain prosper through compassionate and courageous Design. His mission is to thoughtfully design epic experiences in collaboration with the people who inspire us to innovate.

Before joining the Group, Dan was Head of Design at the Fortune 1, Walmart, started Project ARA at Google, designed the original Surface at Microsoft, led design research globally at Motorola, and was the first VP of Design at Capital One. Dan began his career at the world’s top design agencies, and even started his own at one point. The common thread across his career is the belief that Design is most powerful when it’s an expression of humble service, and innovation is most impactful when it fosters openness and inclusion. The common thread across his career is the belief that Design is most powerful when it’s an expression of humble service, and innovation is most impactful when it fosters openness and inclusion.

Dan and his family moved to London in July 2018 directly from the Silicon Valley in California. He has 3 incredible kids who are now old enough to start exploring the world on their own — leaving him and his wife with lots of free time they don’t know how to use! When he isn’t talking about Design or his family, Dan loves to “bust a move” on the Hip Hop dance floor…so much so that he even knows seven versions of the running man.

We’re excited to have Dan onboard and look forward to him providing his insight as the Jury Committee evaluates this year’s high-quality submissions in Medellín. Who knows? We may even see him break out his dance shoes. 🕺🏼

You can find Dan on Twitter or visiting his website.

2020
9 Jul
2019

Introducing our new Co-Chair for 2020!

Jennifer Sarich-Harvey is the VP of Experience Design at PillPack where she leads design, research, and the experience vision. PillPack, acquired by Amazon in 2018, is a full-service pharmacy whose services are designed to help customers live healthier lives by taking the right medications at the right time. Jenn brings her design leadership to the creation and orchestration of moments both on and off the screen. She collaborates with teams to help foster creative culture and show how design can be a driving force for organizational change. Jenn works to demystify complexity in large systems and uses design to deliver discrete interactions that reinforce a company’s brand and mission. She has designed services, interactions, and experiences across the globe at the forefront of retail, consumer products, and healthcare, has developed design curriculum for Venture for Canada, and helped found a feminist hackerspace in Sweden. Prior to joining PilPack, she was at IDEO where she led work focused on service and interaction design and organizational change programs, including co-leading Intercorp’s La Victoria Lab, an Innovation Studio in Lima, Peru. Her work at the lab focused on designing world-class services for the rapidly growing middle class and growing the lab’s digital design capacity.

As a designer her work has been exhibited at the Cooper Hewitt, Media Lab Prado (Madrid), The New Institute (Rotterdam), SXSW, and The Design Exchange (Toronto). She has been recognized with awards from FastCompany, IDSA, Webby Awards, and Core77. Jenn got her start in fashion—designing apparel, textiles, and housewares for celebrity home brands in Canada. She graduated with a BDes in Fashion Design at Ryerson University (Toronto), and later studied Industrial Design and received a MA in Interaction Design from Umeå Institute of Design in Sweden.

We’re thrilled to have Jenn join the team and we look forward to her leadership and vision to shape this years IxDAwards!

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