$1500 Gea Community Maps - Storyboards Phase 2 Round 2

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 contest is to produce Storyboards that accurately capture the Community area requirements from the previously developed Wireframes and that match the previously developed Storyboards.
Primary Goals

• Create storyboards from the screens in the provided wireframe.
• Create a map community platform that allows the creation of 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 and form new communities.

Target Audience

• Anyone 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.

Required Screens The following functionality from the wireframe must be included in your storyboard submission:

• Access Forums
• Post New Thread
• Open Thread
• Reply
• Reply Posted
• Provide Custom Tools
• Credit Card Information

Previous Design Your submission should match or expand upon the design and style of the previous storyboard competition (attached). 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. 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 must fit comfortable within a 1024px Browser window without any horizontal scrolling - 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 a windows 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 - USE WHITE SPACE Logo and Advertisement You must use a placeholder in the upper left corner of the previously created storyboards. Additionally, you must reserve space on every page for a potential advertisement. This space may also end up being empty so it should be designed to look appropriate in either case. 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.