Design Inspire : Designathon 2020

DESIGNATHON is a 24-hour online hackathon for design students who will become the next generation of designers. It is an opportunity to compete against the best design students across the globe in a fast-paced environment and test your design thinking, management as well as collaboration skills. The teams will be responding to evolving needs and solving challenges in our community and beyond for creating resilience, hope, and inspiration.

All the event related information can be found here. 

It is a 24-hour competition, scheduled from Saturday, November 21, 2020, 1200pm IST to Sunday, November 22, 2020, 1200pm IST.
It will be hosted online. Registered teams will be added to a slack group for communication with the organizers.The design brief will be shared with the teams on the slack group 15 minutes before the commencement of the Designathon.

Three finalist teams will be shortlisted and will get a chance to present their work at the Design Inspire Conference hosted on 28th Nov 2020, where a jury panel will declare the winner. The tasks/projects will be evaluated based on the following:

1. The project must be an Interaction Design project; else it will be disqualified
2. Creative Quotient of the concept video.
3. How effectively does the solution address the chosen problem?
4. The design process followed & representation/ documentation on the Blog Innovation and creativity of the overall concept.
5. Communication of work

The winner of the Designathon will get a cash prize of 1,00,000 INR. In addition to this, we have the below mentioned awards:

1. Peoples' choice award- 20,000 INR
2. 3 Mini-challenges - 5,000 INR each