The Trials And Tribulations Of Your First Badge

What happened

It’s good to see that they were well received and well used at the event. On the face of it, making an event badge should be an easy process.

But anyone who has been involved in producing one will tell you, the difference between producing one or two, and making sure hundreds or even thousands appear on day one of the event fully working is enormous. [Nicholas Ficara] produced 1750 of his first badge for Canada’s Hack The North hackathon, and he’s shared the full story . He approached it with a well-planned series of prototype and release candidate steps to catch the problems, which came in handy as there certainly were a few.