Call for applications:

Will you lead our 2024 Awards team?

Do you want to lead IxDA’s efforts to find and recognize great interaction design? Applications to be our 2024 Interaction Awards Chair are open through 30 June.

IxDA is a community of doers and makers, so if you’ve followed previous Awards cycles and thought to yourself, “I’d love to help make the Awards program even better,” this is your chance to step into a leadership role.

About the Interaction Awards

Founded in 2010 and first presented in 2012, the annual Interaction Awards celebrate design thought leadership and innovation around the globe. Each year, Award recipients comprise a showcase demonstrating how interaction design impacts and improves human lives.

Why the Interaction Awards matter

Interaction design is about people: how people interact with each other, and how people interact with the world around them. The Interaction Awards celebrate the work done by interaction designers every day, to create meaningful relationships between people and the products and services that they use. The Awards recognize and promote outstanding works across domains, platforms, and cultures, highlighting interaction design from around the world.

Through the work celebrated by the Interaction Awards, IxDA is building a learning library of interaction design case studies and advancing our mission to demonstrate how interaction design can be applied to improve our human condition.

The Awards Chair role

To be successful, you’ll need to be comfortable leading with charismatic authority. Your team will be recruited from the IxDA community and are 100% volunteers.

Key accountabilities in this role are:

Leadership and strategic development

• Establish the vision and direction of the Awards for the current cycle that evolves the program in service of IxDA’s strategic objectives
• Identify and solicit strategic partnerships to advance awareness of the Awards
• Develop and implement a communications and outreach plan to promote the Awards’ and solicit entries for the current cycle
• Identify and select a jury chair and invite the international jury panel
• Form and steward a peer review panel from the IxDA community
• Facilitate and manage the peer review and jury process
• Develop and deliver the 2024 Interaction Awards ceremony

Project management

• Recruit and manage a diverse, global team of volunteers to execute all aspects of the Awards program, including a co-chair and workstream leads
• Manage the project budget in collaboration with the IxDA Executive Director
• Manage sponsorship recognition and fulfillment throughout the Awards cycle
• Manage the fulfillment program for all levels of Awards recognition
• Participate in the vendor selection process to produce the Awards ceremony
• Document the Awards cycle work, handoff assets to the next cycle’s team

The Awards Chair is a servant leadership opportunity, accountable to the IxDA community through our Executive Director and Board of Directors.

Key dates

• 29 May: Open Call for Candidates
• 30 Jun: Close Call for Candidates
• 17 Jul: Onboard new lead

Apply to lead

Do you see yourself as the next Interaction Awards Chair? Tell us a little about yourself, your involvement in IxDA, and your experience with the development or delivery of an Awards program.

Submit your application by 30 June 2023.

About the Awards: The Interaction Awards recognize and celebrate examples of excellence in Interaction Design across domains, channels, environments, and cultures. awards.ixda.org