Hong Kong Service Jam

Hong Kong’s designathon.

Challenge your thinking and build your creative confidence at this design-driven hackathon.

Try, mess up, struggle, have fun.

You’ll have three days to jump into a team and design a service or experience.

Get excited about an idea. Put all your effort behind it. Run up against a wall, then climb over it. Collaborate with new people. Make it work in a weekend.

Build invisible things.

Services aren’t tangible, and designing them is a challenge. You’ll get the chance to try new tools and approaches, and get help from top-notch mentors along the way.

• Ideate: Come up with a billion ideas and learn how to pick just the right one.
• Research: Talk to people and learn what they want.
• Prototyping: Build it. Make your idea real, through maps, visualisations and prototypes.

Who can jam?

• Designers
  Bigger than your job title?
  Designers who can do more than their job titles demand design services. You’ll learn to take a broad approach and have a bigger impact.
  
  
• Programmers
  Design-curious coder?
  Code is great, but it’s just one part of the puzzle. Learn how to use tech to make human-friendly value propositions.
  
  
• Entrepreneurs
  Struggling to design your business?
  Making something from nothing is scary. You’ll learn how to swim through ambiguity and make decisions your customers will love.
  
  
• Business
  New to design-thinking?
  Design is a powerful way to solve sticky problems and give your business strategic direction. You’ll skip the slides and theory, and learn by doing.

Schedule

Saturday, you’ll be up to your ears in post-its. Sunday, you’ll have a finished service.

• Friday, 7pm to 11pm
  Find out the surprise theme. Come up with ideas. Build teams. Get to work.
  
  
• Saturday, 9am to 10pm
  Work in teams. Research the problem. Talk to users. Maps and sketch solutions. Make rough prototypes. Make fancy prototypes. Make mistakes. Have fun.
  
  
• Sunday, 9am to 5pm
  Keep talking to users. Keep building your idea. Keep prototyping. Concoct a business model. Present your prototype. Win a prize. Celebrate.