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OIC Hackathons for Alipay Design
The ‘OIC’ (Open-Inno Challenge) is an open, rapid design contest initiated by the SD Plus of PolyU Design for envisioning preferred societal changes and improving people’s lives and well-being. Together with Alipay Design, the OIC called for SD community to collect observations, stories and creative ideas related to everyday challenges of ‘exchanging resources or transacting with others’. Such exchange or transaction experiences could be in forms of money, object, credit, skill or time. And also, in the aspects of small business, life-long learning, social relationship, alternative way of work/employment, expense management, etc. OIC is to be used as a joint explorative attempt to identify potential themes of design challenges for the upcoming SD Plus Alipay collaboration.
Prof. Benny LEONG (Director of SD Plus) is delivering an opening speech for the award presentation of Open-Inno Challenge at SD Night event in Central Market.
Prof. Kun-Pyo LEE (Dean of School of Design) is giving the award for the 1st prize to Mr MA Yifu, Kimo with the winning title ‘Personal Carbon Account’.
HKIA Training – ‘Deep Dive in Design Thinking’ Mini Courses (2024-25)
Deep Dive in Design Thinking Mini Courses is a 4-day programme, jointly-organised with Design Thinking in Action Limited (DTIA) and designed for Airport Authority Hong Kong, aiming to introduce fundamentals and helping non-designers to understand the significance of qualitative user research, design prototyping and testing (the key aspects of design thinking) in Digital Experience Design. The programme is divided into two parts as User Research (Part 1) and Digital Experience Design (Part 2). SD Plus and programme trainers have tailored the challenge topics such as ‘How can we identify the challenges and needs of group travelers, such as families with children or the elderly, large family groups, or culturally diverse tour groups, and develop appealing passenger experience / service / product / system design prototypes as future solutions for HKIA?’, helping Airport Authority in developing customer-centered and innovative solutions for their internal ecosystem.
One of the participating teams are working on the ideation and prototyping of their proposed solution during the Digital Experience Design workshop
A group image of Prof. Benny LEONG (Director of SD Plus), Prof. Jaden PARK (Associate Professor of PolyU Design), Ms Jane NGAI (Programme Trainer of DTIA) with course participants and senior management representatives from Airport Authority Hong Kong.
HKIA Training Programme – Ignite Service Design (iSD) Programme (2025)
Ignite Service Design (iSD) Programme is a 2-month programme, designed by SD Plus and jointly-organized with Pineville Management Limited (PML) for the Airport Authority Hong Kong, aiming to enable the learning and practices of Service Design for various business domain teams from the Airport Authority Hong Kong. The programme teaching content focuses on equip AAHK staff with the concept, knowledge and hand-on skills (i.e. user research, journey mapping) of service design, promoting the exploration, incubation and creation of innovative services via cross-industries (service industry + design industry) collaboration. In the end of the programme, the team with the best designed service is going to win an opportunity for actualizing their proposed idea/solution in the Airport ecosystem.
Prof. Benny LEONG (Director of SD Plus) is one of the judges from the judging panel, and giving feedbacks to the teams after presentation.
A group image of Prof. Benny LEONG (Director of SD Plus), Prof. Jaden PARK (Associate Professor of PolyU Design), Mr Eddy HUI (Programme Trainer of PML) with programme participants and senior management representatives from Airport Authority Hong Kong.
