We are heartbroken to learn that Wayne Coughlan passed away at home in South Africa on 9 September. A lecturer in the Design Department at Cape Town Peninsula University of Technology, he mentored and inspired a generation of emerging designers.

Wayne served as an IxDA volunteer for ten years, beginning with Interaction 13 in Toronto. He was the first Regional Coordinator for Africa and the Middle East. Under his tenure, Wayne stewarded IxDA’s growth in the region, making connections across the continent. The community grew from two to more than 20 active local groups in 14 countries.

Wayne made many friends throughout the IxDA community and is fondly remembered. There is a celebration of life planned on 5 October in Cape Town.

If you’d like to contribute to remembering Wayne, you can send photos or a short recorded message to photos@cullis.co.za. Written tributes can be posted on his Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/coughlanw.

The ceremony will be recorded and a YouTube link posted when available.

Remembering Wayne Coughlan was originally published in IxDA on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

15 September: Extended Early Bird deadline

Everyone loves a little more time! We’ve extended our Early Bird deadline for the 2024 Interaction Awards. Now, you have an additional two weeks to submit your best work from the past two years.

Need some inspiration? Check out Carbon Insights: Empowering consumers to make more sustainable decisions, our 2023 People’s Choice winner. You can see all the 2023 winning projects here.

Enter by 15 September for your best rate

Our goal is to make Awards entry fees as accessible as possible. Fees are tiered according to your geography and professional status. Students enter for free during the Early Bird period.

Why enter

The Interaction Awards create a showcase for the community, but they also deliver tangible benefits to those whose work is recognized — they can be an early career springboard and a great learning experience.

Partner with us

Help us make this year’s Interaction Awards memorable. We’ve expanded the opportunities to support the Interaction Awards. In addition to our Presenting Partner level, you can choose from Event Partner, Program Partner, and Community Partner levels. All levels offer visibility with our 150,000 community members and local groups worldwide.

Start your submission

About the Awards: The Interaction Awards recognize and celebrate examples of excellence in Interaction Design across domains, channels, environments, and cultures. awards.ixda.org

Originally published at https://awards.ixda.org.

Extended Early Bird deadline: 15 September was originally published in IxDA on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Make this your year

The 2024 Interaction Awards Call for Entries is open. This is your cue to gather your best examples of excellence in interaction design from the past two years. We’re excited to add to our ever-growing library showcasing best-in-class Interaction Design examples and can’t wait to see what you’ve been working on.

For inspiration, check out our 2023 Best in Show, Little Signals.

Why enter

The Interaction Awards create a showcase for the community, but they also deliver tangible benefits to those whose work is recognized. We think the Frontend team sums it up best:

Enter today for Early Bird rates

Our goal is to make Awards entry fees as accessible as possible. Fees are tiered according to your geography and professional status. Students enter for free during the Early Bird period.

Help us spread the word

Two of our goals for 2024 are to increase the global reach of the Awards program and expand the diversity of submissions from outside Europe and North America. If you‘d like to join our communications and marketing efforts, get in touch.

Partner with us

Help us make this year’s Interaction Awards memorable. We’ve expanded the opportunities to support the Interaction Awards. In addition to our Presenting Partner level, you can choose from Event Partner, Program Partner, and Community Partner levels. All levels offer visibility with our 150,000 community members and local groups worldwide.

Start your submission

About the Awards: The Interaction Awards recognize and celebrate examples of excellence in Interaction Design across domains, channels, environments, and cultures. awards.ixda.org

Originally published at https://awards.ixda.org.

Call for Entries: Make this your year was originally published in IxDA on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Our 2023 theme is inspired by you — the IxDA community. We asked you what topics were keeping your teams talking. Now, as we open the platform for this year’s events, we’re excited to see how these themes shape your design practice.

If equity in the workplace means everyone receives respectful and dignified treatment, and when equity exists, people have equal access to opportunities, then what is our role and responsibilities as designers in ensuring positive outcomes?

Start planning today

World Interaction Design Day is yours to create. Workshops, talks, and events will happen all around the world on 26 September 2023, asking members of our interaction design community to explore how ethics, equity, and responsibility impact our work, communities, and beyond.

This year’s theme encompasses areas such as ethics in design, designing for accessibility, inclusive and responsible design, and anti-capitalist design.

How to get involved

Anyone can organize a World Interaction Design Day event — whether in-person or online. Head over to the IxDD website and sign up for email updates. If you already have your event details planned, you can submit them now.

Last year, events took place in 18 countries, as communities across the world came together to talk and brainstorm ways to make the world better through design. If you missed the event or just want to relive some of the excitement, check out the highlight video.

Partner with us

Joining us in support of World Interaction Design Day 2023 are SoDA, CUMULUS, SDN, and Ladies that UX. If you’d like to help amplify IxDD’s impact, get in touch.

World Interaction Design Day 2023 was originally published in IxDA on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Do you want to lead IxDA’s efforts to find and recognize great interaction design? Applications to be our 2024 Interaction Awards Chair are open through 30 June.

IxDA is a community of doers and makers, so if you’ve followed previous Awards cycles and thought to yourself, “I’d love to help make the Awards program even better,” this is your chance to step into a leadership role.

About the Interaction Awards

Founded in 2010 and first presented in 2012, the annual Interaction Awards celebrate design thought leadership and innovation around the globe. Each year, Award recipients comprise a showcase demonstrating how interaction design impacts and improves human lives.

Why the Interaction Awards matter

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 outstanding works across domains, platforms, and cultures, highlighting interaction design from around the world.

Through the work celebrated by the Interaction Awards, IxDA is building a learning library of interaction design case studies and advancing our mission to demonstrate how interaction design can be applied to improve our human condition.

The Awards Chair role

To be successful, you’ll need to be comfortable leading with charismatic authority. Your team will be recruited from the IxDA community and are 100% volunteers.

Key accountabilities in this role are:

Leadership and strategic development

• Establish the vision and direction of the Awards for the current cycle that evolves the program in service of IxDA’s strategic objectives
• Identify and solicit strategic partnerships to advance awareness of the Awards
• Develop and implement a communications and outreach plan to promote the Awards’ and solicit entries for the current cycle
• Identify and select a jury chair and invite the international jury panel
• Form and steward a peer review panel from the IxDA community
• Facilitate and manage the peer review and jury process
• Develop and deliver the 2024 Interaction Awards ceremony

Project management

• Recruit and manage a diverse, global team of volunteers to execute all aspects of the Awards program, including a co-chair and workstream leads
• Manage the project budget in collaboration with the IxDA Executive Director
• Manage sponsorship recognition and fulfillment throughout the Awards cycle
• Manage the fulfillment program for all levels of Awards recognition
• Participate in the vendor selection process to produce the Awards ceremony
• Document the Awards cycle work, handoff assets to the next cycle’s team

The Awards Chair is a servant leadership opportunity, accountable to the IxDA community through our Executive Director and Board of Directors.

Key dates

• 29 May: Open Call for Candidates
• 30 Jun: Close Call for Candidates
• 17 Jul: Onboard new lead

Apply to lead

Do you see yourself as the next Interaction Awards Chair? Tell us a little about yourself, your involvement in IxDA, and your experience with the development or delivery of an Awards program.

Submit your application by 30 June 2023.

About the Awards: The Interaction Awards recognize and celebrate examples of excellence in Interaction Design across domains, channels, environments, and cultures. awards.ixda.org

Will you lead our 2024 Awards team? was originally published in IxDA on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Starting with a shortlist created by our Community Peer Review Panel, and then narrowed down by our international jury to category finalists and, ultimately, these winners, this year’s Interaction Awards represent a unique snapshot of the state of Interaction Design.

The winners emerged from 68 short-listed projects including first-time appearances from student teams all the way through to enterprise-level projects with global adoption. With projects from Australia, India, China, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the global potential of Interaction Design is apparent.

The domains covered hint at areas of focus from the last two years — empowering users to manage data, make sustainable decisions, increase accessibility, and the role that AI may play across several sectors.

2023 Interaction Awards Winners

Best in Category: Connecting

Jammies: Musical Instruments designed for People Living With Dementia

Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Concept / Student)

Jammies are a set of musical instruments designed to improve the quality of life for people living with mild to moderate Dementia by empowering them to reminisce, improvise and jam along to music that is of personal value to them without assuming any prior musical ability or knowledge.

Best in Category: Disrupting

Connected AEDs and the Future of Emergency Response

NewDealDesign, United States (Production / Professional)

The Avive Connect AED™ sets a new standard for what should be expected of an AED- direct yet approachable experience during treatment, seamless transfer of valuable incident data to 911, EMS, and medical professionals at the right time, and automated remote monitoring to ensure your fleet of devices is ready to save a life.

Best in Category: Empowering

Engaging men for better family health outcomes

Dalberg, India (Production / Professional)

Engaging men in family planning and nutrition programming provides an opportunity to move towards better health and gender outcomes. To meet this goal, we designed two innovative programs in rural Bihar, India, using Human-centered Design (HCD) research, co-creation and prototype testing, grounded in behavioral science approaches.

Best in Category: Engaging

Little Signals

Google LLC, United States (Concept / Professional)

Little Signals, a series of interaction experiments, explores new behaviors for technology in our daily lives. The objects in the series signal for attention with different sensorial cues like a waft of air, a soft shadow, or an ambient sound. Additionally, their simple movements and controls bring them to life and make them responsive to changing surroundings and needs.

Best in Category: Expressing

Mood Board Search — Enabling AI-powered Creative Expression

Nord Projects, United Kingdom (Concept / Professional)

Advances in computer vision and natural language AI continue to unlock new ways to explore the billions of images across our devices, websites, and the public domain. However, it remains difficult to express subjective concepts, such as visual tones (‘vibrant’) or moods (‘eclectic’) to current systems, where visual interpretation is shaped by culture and community and is personal to the individual.

‍Best in Category: Optimizing

Annalise Enterprise

Annalise-AI Pty Ltd, Australia (Production / Professional)

Medical imaging (radiology) has long been a critical diagnostic tool, playing an ever-growing role in establishing which treatment approach best serves each patient.

The ongoing growth in the sheer number of medical images challenges radiologists and healthcare providers to read more scans during each workday, all while maintaining the accuracy, quality, and completeness of their results. The result? Well-resourced medical systems face significant imaging backlogs. Under-resourced systems with low clinician-to-patient ratios may miss opportunities for early disease detection.

‍Best Student‍

DOLL-SITTER

Hunan University, China (Concept / Student)

DOLL-SITTER is a toy set of pop-up smart books and application for sex education for children aged 5–8, using dolls that play the role of body organs and children played as their protectors. Through the interaction of dolls and smart pop-up books, children can learn about sex education, establish life scenes, and discuss with their parents the sex education issues in the “difficult to speak” life.

‍Best Concept

Little Signals

Google LLC, United States (Concept / Professional)

Little Signals, a series of interaction experiments, explores new behaviors for technology in our daily lives. The objects in the series signal for attention with different sensorial cues like a waft of air, a soft shadow, or an ambient sound. Additionally, their simple movements and controls bring them to life and make them responsive to changing surroundings and needs.

‍People’s Choice

Carbon Insights: Empowering consumers to make more sustainable decisions

Rabobank, Netherlands (Production / Professional)

Carbon Insights helps people to learn about the CO2 impact of their purchases based on payment data and a personal profile. In addition, we give educational tips on how to lower your carbon footprint. By applying the lean startup method, we were able to accelerate innovation and be the first Dutch bank to make this available within the consumer banking app.‍

Best in Show

Little Signals

Google LLC, United States (Concept / Professional)

Little Signals, a series of interaction experiments, explores new behaviors for technology in our daily lives. The objects in the series signal for attention with different sensorial cues like a waft of air, a soft shadow, or an ambient sound. Additionally, their simple movements and controls bring them to life and make them responsive to changing surroundings and needs.

Our jury’s comments on selecting Little Signals for this recognition:

‘It’s exceptionally well executed and embodies the essence of interaction design.’

‘Little Signals is also modular enough to be applied to a myriad of use scenarios.’

Congratulations to all of our 2023 honorees. We appreciate the work of our peer reviewers and international jury, who volunteered their time in reviewing submissions and selecting this year’s winners.

The 2024 Interaction Awards will open for submissions in July.

Meet our 2023 winners! was originally published in IxDA on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

We planned to announce our Interaction Awards winners today, 6 May, but our jury needs a little more time to make this year’s final selections.

The team is busy evaluating the finalist projects and considering feedback from the community to confirm our decisions. The good news is that People’s Choice voting remains open through 18 May, so you have more time to participate in selecting this year’s honoree in the only category chosen by you — the community!

Our new publication date is 19 May. Watch this space for news!

Originally published at https://awards.ixda.org on May 6, 2023.

Waiting is the hardest part! was originally published in IxDA on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) is proud to announce this year’s World Interaction Design Day (IxDD) theme is “Ethics, Equity, and Responsibility.” Every year, designers, technologists, and community leaders come together to discuss and explore the future of design. This year’s celebration takes place on 26 September 2023 and will focus on these three key pillars in advancing the practice.

Interaction Design (IxD) defines the structure and behavior of interactive systems. Interaction Designers strive to create meaningful relationships between people and the products and services that they use, from computers to mobile devices to appliances and beyond.

This year’s theme encompasses areas such as ethics in design, designing for accessibility, inclusive and responsible design, and anti-capitalist design. It focuses on the need to consider design’s impact on society and to create work that is equitable and responsible, all in service of advancing IxDA’s mission: improving the human condition by advancing the practice of Interaction Design.

More than 75 IxDA community members submitted theme suggestions. It was the first time in the event’s five-year history that the theme selection was an inclusive process. “IxDA initiatives are created by the community, for the community,” said Brenda Sanderson, IxDA’s Executive Director. “IxDD is a global event and we felt it was important to hear from our members what topics are resonating with them now.”

“We are thrilled to share ‘Ethics, Equity, and Responsibility’ as the theme for this year’s World Interaction Design Day,” said Dean Broadley, IxDA President. “As a community, IxDA thrives when individual members, through their initiative, collaborative contribution, sharing, and self-organization coalesce into meaningful and impactful dialogue. In turn, assisting us all in achieving our goals as a community. IxDD offers our local groups the opportunity to program events around this theme in ways that are relevant to their communities. Together, it sparks a global conversation where we can explore new ways of designing for good and creating a better world for all.”

World Interaction Design Day is IxDA’s annual event that celebrates the impact of interaction design on people’s lives. The aim is to have a positive, long-lasting impact by facilitating activities that support dialogue and outcomes.

This year’s celebration will feature a range of events, including workshops, talks, and networking opportunities. Participants have the opportunity to learn from experts in the field, collaborate with their peers, and share their own insights and experiences. Anyone can organize an IxDD event and there is financial support available for IxDA local groups and their non-profit partners.

For more information about World Interaction Design Day 2023 and the “Ethics, Equity, and Responsibility” theme, visit ixdd.org.

About World Interaction Design Day:

World Interaction Design Day is IxDA’s annual event where we come together as a united global community to show how interaction design improves the human condition. Our aim is to have a positive, long-lasting impact by facilitating activities that support dialogue and outcomes. The event brings together designers, developers, and other stakeholders to explore the latest trends and best practices in the field of interaction design.

Ethics, Equity, and Responsibility was originally published in IxDA on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Reach the IxDA community where they are

Post your job on IxDA’s Job Board, and we’ll cross-post it to our social media channels — including LinkedIn (140K+ followers), Twitter (65K+ followers), and Facebook (15K+ followers). One job is highlighted daily in our feeds.

Bonus coverage with our partner network

And did you know that when you post your job to IxDA’s job board it’s automatically shared with our partner network? It is instantly distributed across targeted design websites that comprise our Design Employment Network.

Support our mission

Best of all, when you post with IxDA, 50% of your fee goes to supporting the organization, allowing us to maintain open access to our content and no membership fees.

Try it out

It’s all at ixda.org/jobs

IxDA Job Board was originally published in IxDA on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

After hard work by our Peer Reviewers and thorough discussion by our 2023 jury, we’re proud to announce the 24 projects representing 10 countries that make up our 2023 Interaction Awards Finalists.

Our jury selected these submissions from a pool of 68 projects from more than 20 countries for recognition.

Connecting

Facilitating communication between people and communities

• The Colour of Resilience
• Everwhite
• DOLL-SITTER
• Oasis
• Jammies: Musical Instruments designed for People Living With Dementia

Disrupting

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

• Connected AEDs and the future of Emergency Response
• Carbon Insights: Empowering consumers to make more sustainable decisions
• IBM Watson Orchestrate
• CBDCs for SDGs
• FiDO / enhancing trust between driver and AI system in semi-autonomous vehicles

Empowering

Helping people to do things they otherwise couldn’t do

• Engaging men for better family health outcomes
• Equimetrics V-PRO — Smarter Equine Monitoring
• TactorBots: A Haptic Design Toolkit for Exploration of Emotional Robotic Touch

Engaging

Capturing attention, creating delight, and delivering meaning

• Alta Quanto: Design for disaster preparedness
• HSBC Accessibility Hub
• Heal Tutu–A family interactive product that educates about emergency prevention
• Little Signals

Expressing

Enabling self-expression and/or creativity

• Making Material You
• Mood Board Search — Enabling AI-powered Creative Expression
• PIIQ

Optimizing

Making daily activities more efficient

• Whome: Finding new homes for pre-loved items
• GardenSpace with Eden
• The Sound of Safety — Philips 2021 alarm sounds
• Annalise Enterprise

Join us on 6 May

We’ll celebrate our winners on 6 May in New York and online. And don’t forget to cast your vote for the People’s Choice Award too!

Originally published at https://awards.ixda.org on March 3, 2023.

Raise a glass to our Finalists! was originally published in IxDA on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.