We're really excited to bring you London Design Jam, this time at Newspeak House.

As Newspeak House is a community space for political technologists we thought we'd take their lead and work on a topic close to politics and the upcoming election.

We'll Jam on Saturday May 27th.

Doors open and breakfast starts at 9:00, and the main event begins at 10:00. We'll be finished by 7pm.

What is this?
Design Jam is a one-day brief to prototype event to work cool disruptive topics. This Jam's theme will be politics and the upcoming election with the final brief being announced on the day of the Jam.

Why?
We want to meet people, make things, learn, have fun doing it, and build a community of awesome people.

I've never Jammed before. What should I bring?
Bring your laptops, coding environments, iPhones and iPads, Sketchpads, writing / drawing implements, cameras and video cameras, and whatever else you need to make sweet stuff. We'll be finding ways of creating quick-and-dirty prototypes for testing, and then building convincing mockups by the end of the day.

Here's the schedule (we try to stick to this, but we can change it up too):

9:00 - Doors open and breakfast begins.
Groggy conversations and coffee.

10:00 - Topic presentation!
We'll give you some background and inspiration to get started with.

10:30 - Making teams and brainstorming session 1!

Each team member will do rapid sketches of 4-8 different ideas. Then we'll put them up, discuss and prioritise.

11:00 - Brainstorming session 2!
Each team member will sketch a single idea. Then we'll dot-vote and choose direction.

11:30 - Team discussion & finalizing idea

12:00 - Break for lunch

13:00 - Building your prototype begins here!
This can be a sketch, paper prototype, html click dummy, a website, a video about your service or anything else that can be used for quick and dirty testing with real people.

15:30 - Testing with peers and on the streets!

16:00 - Prototyping, round 2! Refine Refine Refine!

17:30 - Finalise your presentations! Make them awesome, have fun!!!

18:00 - Final Presentations
We'll take 5 minutes with each project and see what you've built, and what you've learned.

19:00 - End of the day

We'll head to a local pub to celebrate and generally have a great time :)

We can't wait to see you there!