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+title: "Help Design Harmony - UX Design Challenge"
+categories: 
+  - "development"
+image: "assets/images/Design Challenge Blog Banner.png"
+date: 2025-01-13
+url: "/design-challenge/"
+---
+
+## Help us design the next phase of Harmony and win up to £300 in vouchers!
+
+**Search and Results UX/UI Challenge**
+
+Harmony is a platform for researchers to help them discover and compare complex meta-data across different academic studies. The project is a collaboration between University College London (UCL), The University of Ulster, and Fast Data Science and has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and by Wellcome as part of the Wellcome Data Prize in Mental Health. It is currently an open-source project with the aim of furthering and enabling better research of mental health. 
+
+Harmony is currently available as a beta version and functionality is limited to harmonisation of meta-data items that a user uploads. The next stage of the project is to deliver additional functionality to the platform and connect with other data discoverability platforms and partners to enable easier discovery of study meta-data. 
+
+##The Challenge - Search and Results representation
+This design challenge is to design a new discovery page (or pages) that enables users to meaningfully search for meta-data and represent results in a way that is easy to understand. 
+
+Users need the ability to search and view meta-data from studies held on connected data platforms. The search function should be flexible enough to accommodate specific search requests across a wide range of subjects and also allow a user to filter or organise results in a meaningful way.
+
+To sign up for this challenge, please [register](https://forms.gle/pWhDw2ksUiUqfa779) using the link below and sign up to our [Discord Channel](https://discord.gg/XPSwKzcG8N).
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+  {{< card heading="Enter the Design Challenge" copy="Click here to register for this design challenge and recieve further updates." url="https://forms.gle/pWhDw2ksUiUqfa779" >}}
+  {{< card heading="Join our Discord" copy="Join the Harmony Discord server. Check out the 🏅「design-challenge」 channel!" url="https://discord.com/invite/harmonydata" >}}
+{{< /grid >}}
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+
+##Considerations
+Study meta-data is not necessarily consistent across studies
+Labels and categories can use similar but different terms
+Filters or sorting criteria can change based on results (we aim to use AI LLM’s to determine things like filters based on results)
+Should support high level meta-data ‘browsing’ as well as specific searching
+
+##Users
+Core users of this tool will be Researchers, mainly working in mental health related fields but could also be Data Managers or anyone working with mental health meta-data. More detail around user, user requirements and user behaviour will be shared on our [Discord]( discussion channels during the competition.
+
+##Requirements and Information
+* Participants must sign-up to enter [here](https://forms.gle/hkFiGDFPcraFPQGc9)
+* Discussions and further detailed info to help you with this challenge will be added to our competition [Discord channel](https://discord.gg/XPSwKzcG8N) 
+* Participants are invited to submit wireframes, designs and/or basic prototypes in Figma or similar design tools
+* User flows should be clear or illustrated within the document
+* Submissions can be individual or team-based
+* No limit on number of submissions per person/team
+* Prizes for 1st and 2nd place
+* 1st place: £300 Amazon voucher
+* 2nd place: £150 Amazon voucher
+* Each participant will receive a certificate of participation signed by project leaders
+* Winners will receive a winners certificate indicating how they placed
+* Where a team submits an entry, the prize will be divided between the team, not per person
+
+##Schedule
+* Challenge and Sign-Up opens: 13th January 2025
+* Online Project Orientation and Q&A Session with Harmony Product Team - **date TBC**
+* [Discord Channel](https://discord.gg/XPSwKzcG8N) discussions and updates - ongoing - **Product Team available directly via Discord**
+* Submission deadline: Monday 17th March 2025
+* Winners will be announced the following week on: Monday 24th March 2025
+
+
+##Submissions
+Submissions should be made via email to [email protected] no later than 17th March 2025. Submissions do not necessarily need to be polished designs or working prototypes, however partcipants are encouraged to submit a file with clear ideas or wireframes that can be easily visualised by the judging team. 
+
+In your submission, you should include:
+* An explanation of your design approach and reasoning
+* Links to any prototypes or designs (these can also include hand-drawn, photos or wireframes)
+* Please ensure you also share access to your Figma or any design files or any supporting documentation with  [email protected]. 
+* You can add supporting narrative, comments or explanations within your files or separately via email or shared docs.  
+* Note: There will not be an opportunity to present submissions to the judgin team, however if you want to include video or narrative please ensure any links to this are included in your submission.
+
+
+Submissions will be judged based on the following criteria:
+* Innovation and creativity of approach
+* How well it meets users needs
+* Usability and intuitiveness of designs
+* Clarity and overall presentation of idea
+
+Winning submissions may then be chosen to be further developed by the Harmony Team. Participants may be asked if they want to be involved in that process. All Participants will be able to use their work in their portfolios and the Harmony team can provide endorsements for winning participants for use in their portfolios and CV’s. Any work submitted by participants may be used or further developed by the Harmony Team. 
+
+All participants will receive a certificate of participation or, if successful, a winners certificate.
+
+**GOOD LUCK!**
+
+
+## See other events
+
+* 23 Janaury: [Harmony at AI for Good at Newspeak House](https://harmonydata.ac.uk/psychology-ai-tool/newspeak-house/)
+* 22 November 2024: [Harmony at Women In Data™️ London Chapter](/open-source-for-social-science/women-in-data/)
+* 8 October 2024: [Harmony: a free online tool using LLMs for research in psychology and social sciences](/psychology-ai-tool/aidl-meetup/)  at AI|DL London
+* 11 and 12 September 2024: [Harmony at MethodsCon Futures](/ai-in-mental-health/harmony-at-methodscon-futures/
+) in Manchester
+* 2 July 2024: [Harmony: NLP and generative models for psychology research](/open-source-for-social-science/pydata-meetup/)  at Pydata London
+* 3 June 2024: [Harmony Hackathon](/open-source-for-social-science/hackathon/) at UCL
+* 5 May 2024: [Harmony: A global platform for harmonisation, translation and cooperation in mental health](/ai-in-mental-health/harmony-at-lifecourse-seminar/) at  Melbourne Children’s LifeCourse Initiative seminar series.
+* 27 March 2024: [Harmony at AI Camp](/psychology-ai-tool/aicamp-meetup/)
+* 17 August 2023: [Harmony and TIDAL workshop](/ai-in-mental-health/harmony-and-tidal-workshop)
+
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