FOR EMPLOYERS:

• Provide exposure to cutting-edge usability techniques
• Apply new prototyping/mock-up technologies
• Solution to a design problem
• Deeper knowledge of user-centered design techniques that students practice
• Engage with student talent for recruiting needs
• Evaluate talent, skills and “fit” for organizational needs
• Develop your company brand/presence at the School of Information

• FOR STUDENTS:
• Get exposure of real-world design problems
• Develop design skills
• Learn from peers through collaboration/team experience
• Network with employers
• Showcase skills and competencies to employers
• Organizational impact by solving a design problem

We’ll be sending out a newsletter every week with the events happening at UMSI under SOCHI as well as other design oriented workshops around campus.

All UMSI HCI students are automatically members, we’d recommend joining the SOCHI Group here

A design jam is a 2 to 3 hour event at which graduate students from the School of Information, including Health Informatics, who are studying human computer interaction (HCI), respond to real-world, user-centered design problem directly for sponsoring companies.

Design Jams are coordinated by the Student Organization for Computer Human Interaction (SOCHI), with support from the UMSI Career Development Office.