Ben, +1 for Loren's idea. I am actually in the process of planning a similar kind of session at my company's annual user conference.
Searching for "design interactionary" should give you plenty of ideas on how to organize this. Dmitry On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Loren Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rather than have a 20-person "design by committee" session, which no one > likes, maybe split them all into smaller groups of three and have each group > do its own design? They could present them at the end and vote on the best > solution. > > I guess I'm biased but designing is FUN :) And social activities where > people can work as a group have many benefits - including the joy of meeting > new people. > > -Loren > > ----- > http://acleandesign.com > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Benjamin Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> We're having our annual user conference very soon and we're looking to have >> an interactive component to our presentation at the end where our users are >> asked to do something. >> >> As for that certain something, we're not sure yet what to do. >> >> We had thought of a design workshop but thought that wouldn't be too useful >> to have 20 some odd people argue about the merits of the design - it's >> better left to testing. >> >> So I'm coming to you fine folks for ideas. What kind of activity we can >> offer our users that make it entertaining and engaging? >> >> Any help is appreciated. >> >> Ben >> >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________________________________________ >> Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! >> To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe >> List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines >> List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help >> > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
