World Usability Design Challenge

Join the Challenge to WIN!

$1,250

Gold

$900

Silver

$600

Bronze

Entries open in May 2024. Submissions are due on or before September 16, 2024.

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2024 Design challenge

“Designing for a Better World ”

This year’s World Usability Day theme asks us to consider how things can be improved to create a better world for all. We have come a long way as a society, yet we still face fundamental human challenges such as war, poverty, climate change, renewable energy, and social justice. Designers can play a critical role in addressing these challenges by creating solutions that seek to improve the human condition and make the world more just.

We seek submissions to the WUI DC that showcase excellent user-focused design that addresses the theme of Designing for a Better World.

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Judging Criteria

Criteria will be evidenced by a submitted report of up to 10,000 words (excluding tables and figures) with links to video or other internet content as appropriate. The submission form also asks for short summaries of the research, evaluation, and the impact of each. We expect to see the following when assessing submissions:

Quality of contextual/user research
  • Specify when the research was conducted within the development timeline and explain the reasons behind it.
  • Describe the research methods used and justify their appropriateness based on the project’s resources and objectives.
  • Summarise the principal discoveries and insights gained from the research.
  • Detail when the evaluation occurred within the development process and explain its purpose.
  • Outline the evaluation methods used and discuss their suitability given the project’s resources and goals.
  • Highlight the main discoveries and insights from the evaluation.
  • Explain how research discoveries and insights impacted the envisioned or current design. Detail specific redesign decisions driven by these findings.
  • Describe how redesign choices were directly influenced by research insights and evaluation results.
  • Discuss what the likely scenario would have been without these insights.
  • Indicate the explicitness of the links between user-focused research and design decisions.
  • Identify which decisions were: Directly based on clear research implications, Aimed at setting a general direction without specifying particular design outcomes, Creative leaps inspired by insights rather than direct implications.
We do not expect all connections to be explicit. For implicit connections, various forms of creative leaps are expected and legitimate, but they must be argued to depend on discoveries, insights, and evaluation results. For explicit connections, we expect to see clear rationales for how discoveries, insights, and evaluation results direct (re)design decisions. Ideally, the validity of earlier implicit design connections will be demonstrated through later evaluation activities.

Prizes

Winners will be announced on World Usability Day, November 14, 2024. The WUI DC collaborates with the HCI International (HCII) conference, which sponsors three awards (Gold $1250, Silver $1000 and Bronze $750). The Gold, Silver, and Bronze recipients of the WUI DC Awards winners will be cordially invited, with complimentary registration, to present their innovative, impactful design work in a special session during the 2024 HCI International Conference. They can also have a written account included in the proceedings as a paper or late-breaking results (with a later deadline for their manuscript).

Gold

NGN 1,800,000

($1250)

+ Invitation to 2024
HCI International Conference

Gold

NGN 1,470,000

($1000)

+ Invitation to 2024
HCI International Conference

Gold

NGN 1,100,000

($750)

+ Invitation to 2024
HCI International Conference

Hall of Fame

Here are the winners of the WUD challenge from past years.

2023

Live.Lingo
GOLD WINNER
2023

Athena Vo

MCCD Form
SILVER WINNER
2023

Nomeshwari Reddy Thummala

Optimens
BRONZE WINNER
2023

Federica Masci

2022

Curiously
GOLD WINNER
2022

Carolina Ali Fojaco

Isreal Railway Apps
SILVER WINNER
2022

Nitzan Avitov

Cognitive-based design to influence structured financial planning and money management of youth
BRONZE WINNER
2022

Duy Linh Tran

2021

ETOY
GOLD WINNER
2021

Dia Shanti, Nazzal, et’al

Music Tongue
SILVER WINNER
2021

CHIA-HSU HUANG, et’al

Play with me
BRONZE WINNER
2021

Atefeh Jamilpour

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