$1500 Gea Community Maps Wireframe Tournament - Phase 1

The Community Maps project is an innovative idea for building interactive communities around socially relevant mapping data and features. The community platform will include social networking tools that will enable the community to bond, grow and self regulate. The platform will also provide mechanisms to promote measurement, level-up goals, peer rating tasks, and a framework for incentives like prizes. Each community will create its own concept of roles, responsibilities, and entitlements that associate people, and process steps. The main objective of this application is to create a map community platform that allows creation of communities around a particular type of content that is tied to the map. The map community platform will provide a data collection framework that will enable collecting geospatial data in an inexpensive manner. The goal of this first contest is to produce Wireframes that accurately capture the Community area requirements and user flow so the client and Studio designers have a clear understanding of what needs to be designed and built. You will be using the Conceptualization Specification document for your information, which contains details of the application. The specific areas to be addressed are outlined below.

Round 1

At the end of Round 1, Gea will choose three (3) winners; each will win $50 and a Design Review. These winners, and any member who had a passing submission in Round 1, will be eligible to compete in Round 2 for the additional $1250 in prizes.

Round 2

Round 2 will start with the announcement of the three $50 Round 1 winners and the posting of their design reviews in the contest forum.
Goal For this contest you will be using the Conceptualization Document for your information. This document contains all of the requirements for the application. You are expected to evaluate the information presented and define the user flow and experience to accurately present the information. This first contest will set the tone and layout for the entire application. Application Background It would be helpful to review the Introduction of the provided document to get a full understanding of the project (section 1.0) Community Tool You will wireframe the Community tool section of the Community Maps application. The community Tool is the main application for community users. Users will join communities, manage their own profiles, provide and manage their content, rate content metrics and other members, associate content with maps, view community and own content, perform searching and routing on the mapping data, create and integrate new tools/widgets to the community, manage their home pages. There can be special reviewers and QA users in communities, so those users will check and approve correctness of the submitted content. Refer to the following sections of the Requirements Specification: Any requirements that are red in the document are considered out of scope for the application build at this time. However, they need to be included in the wireframes. Please include this functionality but denote it in some way as out of scope in your files (color, notes, etc). For Round 1 you will be responsible for the following sections: 3.4 (Community) Use Case Diagram only 4.4 Task Requirements (only the ones listed below) 4.4.1 Login 4.4.2 Logout 4.4.3 Register New User 4.4.4 Unregister 4.4.5 Configure Profile Data 4.4.6 Get Help 4.4.7 View Maps 4.4.8 Search Communities 4.4.9 Search Content 4.4.10 Search Users 4.4.11 Join Community 4.4.12 View Community Content Additional section required for Round 2 4.4.13 Perform Workflow Process 4.4.14 Provide Community Content More detailed information on these sections will be provided at the start of Round 2. You may add more sections from the 4.4 area if you wish but it is not required. Target User Any person wishing to take part in a Community Mapping experience. Wireframe Considerations The most important aspect of this application is providing a very logical and ordered user experience. The user should not have to think about how to find information. Wireframe Resources Wireframes on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_site_wireframe Wireframe software option: www.axure.com Example Wireframe: http://www.gdoss.com/web_info/web-site-wireframe.php Wireframe Requirements Wireframes can be built in HTML, Axure, MS Visio or OmniGraffle. The resulting files are not critical in this contest. The most important point is that all the content is listed and the pages are linked together to show page flow. Pages must be linked together as a clickable resource. Judging Criteria Your submission will be judged on the following criteria: - How well your wireframes provide a consistent user flow - How accurately and intuitively the data is represented - How well you implement the required data and any suggestions, interactions and user flow you recommend (provide any notes or comments for the client) Contest Deliverables Round One First draft all wireframes for client feedback. The required sections are clearly identified above. Round Two Final completed Wireframes of all required areas, detailed above. The client may add additional requirements based on Round 1 results and decisions made between now and the start of Round 2. You must submit all requested deliverables to be considered for prizes - you may submit more if necessary to explain your solution. Submission & Source Files Preview Image Please create your preview image as one (1) 1024x1024 JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode at 72dpi and place a screenshot of your submission within it. You are free to resize or crop your submission to fit this size, but do not add any filters or elements for dramatic effect, such as drop shadows or reflections. Submission File All Requested Contest Submission Requirements stated above. Source Files All original source files of the submitted ideas. Final Fixes As part of the final fixes phase you may be asked to modify content or user click paths.