Adobe Creative Jam Brief Review & Submission Requirement | Nov. 9, 2020

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The Purposes of Joining the Creative Jam Contest

  1. Submit the project to Adobe Creative Jam Fall 2020 Contest: Nov. 9, 2020
  2. Submit the project to the Adobe Achievement Awards: TBA
  3. Enrich your personal portfolio, and improve the quality of your Behance portfolio.

Some Ways Smart Technology Can Help Community Citizens

  • Decrease resource consumption and waste
  • Prevent and monitor threats to personal safety, privacy and/or neighborhood security
  • Reduce everyday disruptions like traffic jams and 100-year-level natural and human-induced hazards
  • Reduce the impact of critical disruptions on underserved and underinvested communities
  • Remove barriers and increase wise usage to community services
  • Improve access to services and/or information during pandemic restrictions or shutdown
  • Identify educational and professional services that provide economic growth, revitalization or entrepreneurship
  • Engage and connect diverse communities to increase socialization, collaboration, and cultural relations for a more equitable environment

Brief Review for the Adobe Project

Design a mobile phone app that generates solutions to optimize infrastructure, mobility, public services, utilities, communication, public health, or resource distribution on a local, regional, statewide, or national level. Meaningfully and positively impacts the community and improves equity.

In what ways can technology provide citizens with the resources and services they need to create better opportunities? Start by understanding the unique challenges relating to human safety, equity, and services in your community. What problems exist for members of other communities outside yours?

Project Requirements
https://www.creativejam.in/ut-creative-jam

Evaluation Questions

Projects are evaluated and scored on the following four questions, which will make up the content of your 150-word abstract:

  • Does the solution address a target audience and their needs
  • Does the prototype solve the problem in an innovative way?
  • Is the user experience and interface intuitive?
  • Is visual design used in a thoughtful and meaningful way?

App Specs

  • Must be a mobile phone app, answer the challenge, and be created in Adobe XD
  • Be created with 15 or more unique prototype screens connected together
  • Created during the event time period and not be derived from previously created work
  • Must contain only original content, artwork, Adobe Stock images, or royalty-free images; or copyrighted images/illustration/text with source citation and must be included in the submission form.

Additional Resources

Submit the Entry for Adobe Creative Jam Contest

There is a submission for for each Creative Jam where you submit your project for review. In addition to your Adobe XD project link and team information, each team must provide a 150-word abstract that answers the project evaluation questions as well as cite your images and text that is not of your team’s own creation. No additional files or presentations will be accepted outside of the time-stamped prototype link. The project score could be found after November 9 at
https://spark.adobe.com/page/nQL3yxsKEWcVl/

Submission Process: https://www.creativejam.in/ut-creative-jam

  • Submissions are due by or before Monday, November 9 at 4:00 pm CT to http://cjam.in/utxsubmit.
  • You must provide a 150-word abstract that answers the project evaluation questions.
  • Finalists will be contacted by Wednesday, November 11 with information to present their apps in the finale.
  • A presenting team member MUST attend a scheduled tech check on Friday, November 13 to present and win a prize.
  • No additional files or presentations will be accepted outside of the time-stamped prototype link.

EXPORTING LINKS

Please name your file with your team name. Export with the View Setting set as Design Review and the Link Access to Anyone with the link.

The link you create must start with xd.adobe.com

Participate in the Finale

Finalists will be contacted by two days in advance of the finale with information to present their apps in the finale. A presenting team member MUST attend a scheduled tech check to present and be eligible for the grand prize (this usually occurs earlier on the day of the finale).

Finalist teams have 3 minutes to present their work to industry judges LIVE on air! Top teams are awarded at the end of the event.

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