Health x Design: Building Health into Everyday Life

To make the world a better place, of course! To tackle a compelling problem. To get lots of eyes on your brilliant designs. And for the chance to take home up to $10,000 in prizes.

Refer to Eligibility Rules for Participating in the Terms & Conditions on the challenge website: The Challenge is open to teams and individuals. You can read more details about this in the Eligibility Rules for Participating in the Competition on the challenge website (Section II, Part B in the Terms and Conditions).

Only US Citizens/Permanent Residents may be a named member of the team due to restrictions on awarding prize money. International students may participate as unofficial team members and have their name included in the submission as an additional contributor. We understand that international students will want to showcase their contributions as part of their portfolio.

A complete submission contains four parts. All parts should be submitted via public links in the submission form.

• Written design brief (up to 2,250 words). Describe the solution, the track it belongs to, and how it meets the entry criteria. This is your chance to explain all the details.
• Brief video (up to 3 minutes long). Show us what your solution looks like in practice. We want to see the value of your design (think Kickstarter).
• Visual compositions of the solution. Use sketches, digital visual designs, or photography to explain your solution visually. Your visualization may take the form of a narrative—such as a story board or cartoon—or it may be more abstract, such as a diagram or a model.
• Timeline for the next 5 to 10 years. Clarify the scope of your solution using a 5- to 10-year timeline that shows your early thoughts about key partnerships and activities that would need to happen to make this solution a reality.

August 31, 2019 at 11:59 PM EDT

No. So don’t procrastinate! We want to see your amazing work.

Nope. You’ve only got one chance, so make it count.

If you’d like to participate, we request that you inform us of your intent to participate. This ensures an adequate number of reviewers and allows us to send timely reminders as the submission deadline approaches. The intent to participate is non-binding–submitting the form does not obligate you to submit a design.

We’re giving out two prizes. Both will be evaluated using a scorecard against a shared set of core criteria as well as a track-specific set of additional criteria. An advisory panel will review all the submissions and make recommendations to our judges. These judges will do their own review and then select our challenge winners.

There are only two cash prizes. We’ll also be giving out Honorable Mentions for entries that are outstanding in specific focus areas. If you have a specific passion or area of interest, feel free to focus your efforts on that. (e.g., reducing food insecurity in urban environments.)

You can completely reinvent processes and systems, rethink collaboration, and re-envision the intersection of technology, government, and workplaces (to name a few). Assume that current and emerging technologies can work together reliably and seamlessly. This is not science fiction—show us how your design is feasible within the next 5 to 10 years.

No. The Challenge is open to teams and individuals. You can read more details about this in our Terms and Conditions.

Every human-centered design project begins with research, and this one is no different. We’ve gotten the ball rolling for you with a wealth of resources. Of course, to make this truly human-centered, you need to involve users in some aspect of your design process. Make your designs with them or run your designs by them, it’s up to you. The more human involvement, the better.

The video will be more concise than the written explanation. The video will focus on the story of how the submission works and how it addresses key issues and evaluation criteria. The written explanation provides more opportunity for detail.

The design brief provides an opportunity for you to describe the concept in detail, the design principles it follows and how it meets the evaluation criteria. It should not exceed 2,250 words and you are permitted to use graphics to supplement the written explanation.

The same 4 submission components can be submitted for both prizes as long as it is made clear in those submission components how the submission meets the evaluation criteria for both. You may also submit a different set of components for each prize.

While the same submission components can be submitted for both prizes, it must be made clear in those submission components how the submission meets the evaluation criteria for both. If your team feels that your solution meets all the core criteria, all the criteria for Track 1 and all the criteria for Track 2, you can submit the same design brief, video, visual composition and timeline entry twice to be considered for both prizes. Alternatively, when submitting your work you could modify the components for each prize to emphasize how your work meets that specific criteria. We encourage the latter approach as it will help the judges understand why they should consider your submission for both prizes.

Solutions do not need to be market-ready, but we seek ideas for how they may be implemented. The timeline component of the solution should provide some early thoughts about how the solution may become reality.

The purpose of this challenge is to stimulate innovation and make health a core value in technology. We’ll be creating a gallery of all the submissions. Your work will live in this gallery, where we hope it will inspire everyone who sees it. It may also be used in marketing and advertising, now and in the future.

Upon submission, contestants warrant that they are the sole author and owner of the Challenge Submission, and that the submission completely originates with the contestant, that it does not infringe upon any copyright or any other rights of any third party of which contestant(s) is aware, and is free of malware. You can read more details about this in our Terms and Conditions.

Feel free to send questions via email.

You can watch the webinar recording here and download the slides.