A digital interactive hackathon to designhealth recommendations to address the growing numbers of adults with diabetes in Malaysia.
By following the design thinking method, participants are expected to produce an innovative solutiondetailing their intervention. Cash prizes provided for three winning groups at end of hackathon!
Hackathon Challenge Overview
Before the workshop began, teams decided the profile of their target user. They selected categories what combination of factors to undertake.
Each team have selected one of the criteria below:
1. Obesogenic environment
2. Age groups
3. Testing
4. Socio-demographic
Design Thinking
All teams have developed their idea with the use of design thinking process to ensure they develop effective solution that tackle the problem.
Empathy
Teams developed the profile of their target user into a person
They made this profile in a Jamboard as a team
Define
Teams dug through their general problem to generate their root problem.
Teams defined their problem within the scope of their target user
Ideate
Teams brainstormed ideas and provided useful feedback onto each other’s ideas to build up better ideas
Teams filtered through their ideas to their most formidable idea.
Prototype
Teams prototyped their experiential exhibition on a Google Site to shared the problem their target user faces and offered the public ways to interact with the exhibition
Teams started designing their solution to be presented at this stage.
Test
Teams sought after feedback from the public on their solution with the google form they made