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 platform also includes an iPhone application which facilitates the capturing of community data.
The main objective of the iPhone application is to create an interface for community members to be able to submit new information to their communities. The application will be able to read pictures and geospatial (GPS) data from the phone. It will also allow members to enter data according to any custom data schemas created by the community.
The goal of this contest is to produce Storyboards that accurately capture the requirements from the previously developed Wireframes.
Primary Goals
- Create storyboards from the screens in the provided wireframe.
- Create a portal to the map community platform and communities centered around sharing content tied to maps.
- Make it easy to find interesting map data and communities.
- Make it easy to create and collect content to tie to map data within communities.
Target Audience
- Any iPhone user who is interested in finding a particular type of map data (handicap accessible hotels, good fishing spots, etc.)
- Collectors of mapping data who will compete for ratings, badges and other incentives within a community or as a whole.
The most important aspect of this contest is designing a very easy to understand user experience. The user should not have to think about what to click, where to go or how to find information. They should be focused on the products displayed and not the interactions themselves.
Required Screens
You are not required to design storyboards for every screen in the wireframes. Your submission must include the following screens from the wireframes:
- Login
- View Maps
- Content Detail
- Choose Community
- Perform User Movement Tracking
- Tracking
- Done Taking Photo
- Photo List
- Upload Content to Community
- Add Content to Map
- Rate Content
- Modify Content
- Associate Contents - Forum
Stock Photography
Watermarked comp photography from istockphoto.com is allowed in this contest. You must follow these instructions or your submission will fail screening:
1) You must include a completed Third Party Content worksheet. It belongs with your Submission folder/zip file -- NOT your Source folder/zip file.
2) Only use photos, and only use them from iStockPhoto. Other iStockPhoto artwork is not allowed.
3) Be sure to keep the watermark intact. If the image is cropped in such a way that the watermark is not visible, please be sure to include the entire image in your source files so we can see that it is a comp image from iStockphoto.com.
Gea Community Maps Design Requirements
- Your design needs to fit within this look - it does not need to duplicate the provided look.
- Your design must fit comfortable within the iPhone display (320x480) window.
- Colors:
Blue: #002d5e
Light Blue: #0066b3
Green: #6fb20d
Tan: #efecdd
White: #fffff
- Fonts:
Any text that will eventually not be part of a graphic/button should be written using an iPhone standard font.
- Design appropriate icons and think of where they should be placed.
- Think of your key design elements and how they should be used throughout your design
- KEEP YOUR DESIGN CLEAN AND SIMPLE
Logo and Advertisement
There is no logo provided for this competition. You must use a placeholder wherever the logo should appear.
Judging Criteria
Your submissions will be judged on overall appearance, use of color and asthetics. You are not required to adhere strictly to the wireframes but the basic page layout should be followed and all elements preserved.
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.
Submission File
All Requested Contest Submission Requirements stated above. Files should be saved as JPG or PNG files in RGB mode at 72dpi.
IMPORTANT - If you are submitting "small updates or changes" with multiple submissions please include in your notes file what is different or changed - this can be confusing to the client sometimes when they can't tell what is different.
Source Files
All original source files. Original source files should be saved as layered Photoshop PSD files.
Final Fixes
As part of the final fixes phase you may be asked to modify fonts (sizes or colors) or modify overall storyboard colors.
Please read the challenge specification carefully and watch the forums for any questions or feedback concerning this challenge. It is important that you monitor any updates provided by the client or Studio Admins in the forums. Please post any questions you might have for the client in the forums.