Sofia Design Festival

The designathon workshop marks the starting point of most digital projects. Used to solve problems big and small and flip a challenge on its head, it is just the right tool to get you thinking about your digital product in a new way, no matter how corporate or startup your setup is. The 2-day workshop by Aneliya Kyurchiyska and Felix Kapolka will focus on using the Designathon format based on the design thinking process. It is best learned when applied, that’s why the group will work hands-on on a challenge. Together the small group will start with a design challenge and work their way through research and ideation. With rapid prototyping and a final user testing, assumptions can be validated fast. Each attendee will get an insight into the digital design process by working multidisciplinary, conceptualizing and creating a prototype using industry-standard tools like Figma and Miro.

The workshop is suitable for all sorts of digital product people: designers, developers, product managers and all other roles will learn something useful. All experience levels are welcome, including students. All attendees should bring their own laptops. The workshop will be held in English.

Aneliya Kyurkchiyska from Plovdiv, Bulgaria is a digital product designer based in Berlin. She focuses on creating fluent experiences across platforms through product design, illustration and design research. Beyond the screen Aneliya is interested in all the ways in which technology influences how we move, communicate, think and play and likes to write about it. Before recently starting a job at Pitch, she was working together with Felix for Goodpatch Berlin.

Felix Kapolka works as UI and UX Designer for Goodpatch Europe focusing on research projects. His studies in Strategic Media Development and Communication Design led him to universities in Berlin and Malmö. Felix is thrilled to enhance the Design Research work of Goodpatch Berlin by founding an own Research Lab. Following the dream of having individual and easily accessible testing facilities enables the whole company to enhance its design quality through in-depth user insights.

The class will be held online if our guests from Berlin are unable to travel to Sofia due to Covid-19 restrictions.