Health & Wellbeing Hackathon

Health & Wellbeing Hackathon

Wednesday 13 November, 09:00-17:00

Join us for a hands-on, fun, highly practical one-day hackathon where you'll be tasked with designing a digital product, focusing on health and wellbeing, to help people in the local area.

Your product will be focused around one of the following challenge areas:

  • Obesity
  • Healthier Children
  • Mental Health
  • Health Inequality

Working in a small teams, you'll work through the end-to-end design process by applying various methods and tools which you'll be shown on the day. You'll learn about design thinking, the Double Diamond design process, and how to build a product that delivers product/market fit.

Methods, tools and frameworks you will learn include:

  • Design Thinking
  • Archetypes and Personas
  • Business Model Design
  • Ideation techniques
  • Mission statements
  • Storyboarding
  • Paper Sketching and Wireframing

Teams will have the opportunity to present their concept back to the audience at the end of the day, with prizes up for grabs!

The day is a great chance to practice essential skills like storytelling, empathy, collaboration and teamwork. The hackathon will equip you with the skills needed to take future business ideas and projects forward in the right way.

Reserve your place now

 

 

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