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
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.