I know, I am coming in a big late, but I have experience with competitions via STC and want to throw out some cautions to consider:
Judges need to be trained and work from a common set of standards. STC has sometimes suffered at the local level from not having enough experienced folks volunteering to judge and ending up sending forward to the International or Regional competitions substandard entries. Create a judging checklist that everyone agrees on and can be tested for inter-rater-reliability. This removes the potential for charges of favoritism and so on. It must also be determined that these competitions are like dog shows - entrants are judged against the standard, not each other. There is no grading curve in a design competition. I have judged both local and international competitions for STC, and the most important part of the job is to leave clear, constructive, and instructive comments to the entrants, particularly those who do not receive recognition and those in the lower categories. If you do this, competition entry fees can be seen as the cheapest consulting you ever got. Lastly, once the winners are chosen, make sure their work is widely viewed so everyone can applaud it and can see what great interaction design looks like! On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:25 PM, laurie kalmanson <[email protected]> wrote: > i vote for worshipping the polar bear as our common ancestor > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38517 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > - Show quoted text - > 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 > -- Mary Deaton Yes we can. Yes we did. Yes we will ________________________________________________________________ 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
