[IxDA Discuss] No UX Challenge 2009 at Svalbard

[Lillian Medby]

Dear Friends,

We are sad to announce that there will be no UX Challenge at Svalbard
in October 2009.

It seems like the financial crisis has hit our target group harder
than we hoped for. Indeed we have received a lot of feedback on the
project, where people tell us that they love the idea, but they have
a hard time finding the necessary resources to attend.

At Svalbard we need 200 participants in order to break even, and we
don't seem to be able to recruit that many this year.
Unfortunately!
 
However, we will not let this idea die. We strongly believe in the
concept and that we actually can contribute and use our skills for
something good (and learn a lot while meeting lots of interesting
people doing so).
 
Our next step is to find out the exact reasons why too few people
tried to qualify. Was it solely due to the financial crisis? The
location, or the concept? The fact that we asked people to send in a
presentation or a video? We hope these questions will be answered in
the 2 minutes questionnaire that we kindly ask you to submit:
http://web.refleks.com/?surveyid=36344 
 
When the results are analysed we will find out how to postpone this
conference.
 
We are sorry for having to announce this.

Warm regards from the cold North,

The UX Challenge team
Jostein, Lillian, Andreas and Even

http://www.uxchallenge.com
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[IxDA Discuss] [Event] Qualification for the UX Challenge (Arctic edition) is open

[Lillian Medby]

I'm one of the insane people organizing UX Challenge, Arctic edition
(http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=38434) :-). 

To sum up for those of you who haven't followed the recent
discussion: The aim is to create a prototype of a web based system
that will create dialogue between people in a conflict. 

The case we're working with is the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. We
are inviting representatives from both sides of the conflict to help
us gain insight and understanding about how we can help them. 

This event will be organized as a competition:
1. 40 teams of 5 UX professionals will compete creating a prototype
of the web-based system.
2. Leading minds in our industry, such as BJ Fogg and Jesse James
Garrett, will be giving inspirational talks and will be available to
guide you during the competition.
3. You will learn a lot from how other UX professionals do their
job.
4. The jury will consist of amongst others BJ Fogg, Jesse James
Garrett, and a Peace Organization  
5. The winning prototype will gain fame and glory, and will be
implemented.

The Location is Longyearbyen, Svalbard: The northernmost city in the
world:
"So remote that the city does not exist on Google maps, yet so
beautiful and mysterious that you will long to return. The perfect
location for the greatest ever UX challenge."

To make this happen we want the best of the best UX practitioners
around the world, and we would be ever so happy to see some of you
guys there! 

To qualify for the event go to
http://www.uxchallenge.com/qualification.html

The ten first teams to be accepted receive a 10% discount. 
And: All IxDA members will receive a 5% discount if they enter the
code "ixda" when making the final registration/paying. 

(Ps: Double discount is unfortunately not possible, so if you are
lucky to be one of the first ten teams you will not get a 5% discount
on top of the 10% discount).

Join us!  We really hope to see you there :-)

Warm regards from the cold North 
from Lillian,
For the UX Team

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