Methodology

Voting System
What is the voting / scoring weights for individual categories. How do we score the designs?

Evaluation Criteria
How the designs are evaluated; some of our insights about how we pick the best design.

Presentation Bias Reduction
How do we remove or reduce the "Positive Presentation Bias"? Learn about the tools and systems incorporated.

Scoring Interface
How does the jury members score individual designs, the interface for voting.

Standard Score
How do we standardise the scores, how do we normalize votes by different jury members?

Jury Selection
How do we pick the jury members for the competitions? Who is eligable for becoming a jury member?

Jury List
The list of jury members, their titles and affiliations are listed in this page.

Announcing Results
How do we announce the results? When do we announce the results? Where do we announce the results?

Award Levels
What are the different levels of success in the A' Design Awards and Competitions, how are they chosen?

Effects on Design Rankings
Learn how winning the A' Design Award & Competition effects "Designer Rankings" and "World Design Rankings"

Score Sheet
Learn more about the score sheet that is given to all participants, see an example score sheet.

Preliminary Checking
What is a preliminary checking, how is it performed, what are the possible results and states?

Professional Preliminary Judging and Evaluation
What is a preliminary evaluation, how is it performed, what are the possible results, insights and states?

Submission Optimization
What is submission optimization and analysis? Improve the presentation quality of your submission.

Competition Timeline
What is the general detailed time line of the A' Design Award & Competition?

Publishing and Privacy Settings
What are the possible privacy and publishing settings for nominated designs?

Judging and Dissemination Settings
What are the possible options for public announcement, judging date and dissemeniation for nominated entries?

Call for Jury Members
A' Design Award is actively seeking jury members for academic, professional, enterprise and focus-group panels.

Networking Effects
Learn Why A' Design Award has a wide range of categories, importance of concepts and exploration.