Tips, Tricks and Requirements for Your Studio Submission

Here are some thoughts to consider for a successful submission.

Don’t be afraid!

CONTENT

Real use case (not invented,not fictional). Does not have to be in use yet or not anymore, but should contain the story of use case journey which is implemented in the respective organization.
Remember we need waivers from every player involved!
use cases with business, non-profit or educational background
a2j and public sector use cases
impact-related client work
Articulating a defined problem statement
A good description of the methodology to solve the problem, e.g. user research and analysis of insights (interviews, focus groups, questionnaires etc), prototyping and testing
Providing an Impact analysis of the outcome
Telling us a compelling story
Making your content enjoyable and easy/interesting to read
If you use AI for your entry, explain which tool you used, why you picked this tool and how you checked for e.g. accuracy, copyright, security issues and human-centricity of the output
Explain how AI empowered you to get deeper/further with the design process

FORMATTING

Image Resolution: min 1280×720 pixels, no larger than 2 MB per image (format: .jpg, .png or .svg)
send all images separately
transparent or white background for illustrations
Solid structure of content: 3 to 6 chapters outlining problem statement or challenge / methodology / result / impact assessment
Executive summary / Intro section

CONTENT

Submitting a marketing deck or a marketing story just selling a service or a product
Applying only a limited, poor or no design process or methodology
Using only AI to produce your content – we can tell! (or at least we think so…)
Being generic. Please be specific!

FORMATTING

Excel-Graphs
Images larger than 2MB per image
Only a slide deck without an accompanying text document
Only a PDF without an accompanying text document (reason: makes editing for us easier and reduces a lot of back and forth)