$2000 Website Design - Schedule Tool Landscaping Company

Our Company: The Yard Group is a family of companies established for the purpose of bringing together the best of the best in the landscape services industry. Our company objective is to provide to our customers the absolute highest level of quality possible - first class design, unparalleled craftsmanship, unfailing delivery on our commitments and a breadth of service and capabilities second to none. Our Professionals: The Yard Group is proud of our quality craftsmanship, attention to detail and certified training in our field. We feel strongly that our creative, skilled employees are the heart and soul of our company. We value and acknowledge each employee as a unique and individual part of the team. We encourage the continued growth of each team member, professionally, personally and as a member of the community at large. Target Audience: This website will provide information and services to our clients. The site will be allow a client to perform such actions as browse galleries of local members, schedule services, etc. through the client log-in portal. Our goal is to create a customer experience second to none.

• Focus primarily on the residential marketplace offering a unique customer experience that is not currently available in the industry.
• We establish close relationships with our clients - urgency and quality are of the utmost importance to us.
• Our clients are professionals lacking time; typically 2-income households; middle-high end clients with house values of $400k plus; they want easy, reliable service; proud of their properties.
• Our clients understand value beyond low price - quality/uniqueness/customer experience = value

Contest deliverable: For this contest, you will be creating screens to represent the scheduling functionality available to our users.

Round 1

At the end of Round 1, the customer will choose up to five (5) Round 1 winners, each will win $100 and a Design Review.

Round 2

Round 2 will start with the announcement of up to five (5) $100 Round 1 winners and their Design Review from the customer.
For this contest, you will be creating screens to represent the scheduling functionality available to our users via the online SCHEDULE TOOL. These screens should be complimentary to the home page design and storyboard attachments. Contest details and logo are also attached. In addition some sample photos are attached to be used as backgrounds/design elements, if you choose to as part of your design. GENERAL: Our online tool pages should have a nice, clean design. Although it needs to have quite a bit of functionality it must have intuitive navigation/be user-friendly ONLINE TOOLS: All online tools can be accessed once a client has logged on via the welcome page (see attached files in contest). The user will click on the online tool icon and be taken to that particular tool. SCHEDULE TOOL: This contest is for our schedule tool. When a user clicks on the schedule online tool from the login "welcome page" they are navigated to the scheduling page. The user has the option to schedule appointment or to schedule services. Page 1 - Main Schedule Page Page 2, 2a, 2b - Schedule Home Appointment Page 3 - Schedule Home Appointment Request Confirmation Page 4, 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d - Schedule Services Page 5 - Schedule Services Request Confirmation Please see Contest Details attachment for more information. JUDGING CRITERIA How well the user experience is for the non-technical user How unique and innovative are the interactions. How well all the design and content requirements are met. PREVIEW IMAGE Please create your preview image as 1024x1024 JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode at 72dpi with the 970px template design placed 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 ZIP FILE JPG or PNG screens based in RGB color mode at 72dpi. SOURCE ZIP FILE All design source files saved as layered PSD, AI or EPS. FINAL FIXES As part of the final fixes phase you may be asked to modify color and other minor design elements.