Special Needs Calculator Design

The main objective of this iPhone application is to educate, inform and motivate parents and caregivers to carefully consider the financial future of a loved one with special needs. In doing so, they will minimize adverse impacts on federal and state aid that their loved one with special needs may be entitled to. Without this understanding, they could inadvertently make their loved one with special needs ineligible for state and federal benefits The application should have four main components. - A section to educate parents and caregivers on the laws and rules that they need to be aware of. - A future expense planning section that will allow them to interact with the application and input different scenarios to better understand the amount of money that they may need to save and a "more information" section. - Ability to Save or email their scenarios in order to have something to use when speaking with a special needs professional. - A link to our corporate web site that will encourage them to contact a special needs professional trained in this type of financial planning. The goal of this contest is to produce the visual design for this app based on the attached wireframe from the previous contest.

Round 1

Your submissions for Round 1 should include all pages for the app. (See attached wireframe) At the end of Round 1, the client will choose five (5) 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 $1500 in prizes.

Round 2

Round 2 will start with the announcement of the five $50 Round 1 winners and the posting of their design reviews in the contest forum. Your submissions should include all required pages and any feedback that was given as part of the milestone reviews.
Target Audience Parents or caregivers of special needs individuals. Primary Goals - Educate the consumers on the importance of future expense planning and government benefits impacts for loved ones with special needs. - Provide the parent or caregiver with a tool (calculator with worksheets) to input hypothetical future expenses to consider when planning for future financial needs for their loved one with special needs. End result of calculator needs to be a ?range? and not a specific figure. Need to be able to save or email the results. - Encourage the parent or caregiver to contact a special needs planner, trained in special needs planning to learn more and link to more information on a website. Required Sections All screens in attached wireframe. - Homescreen - Education Screen - - - Education Category SubScreen showing "Articles" - - - Education Category SubScreen showing "Videos" - - - Video Player screen for when user clicks on a video - Calculator "Child Info" Screen - - - Calculator "Add another child" screen - Calculator "Expense" Screen - - - Calcultor "Expense" Detail subscreen - - - Add Custom Details screen - Calculator "Income" screen - Calculator "Calculate" screen - - - Calculate summary screen View Details from Graph screen - - - Calculate "Share" Screen - - - Calculate "Save" Screen - Get Help Screen - "More" Screen - - - Saved Calculations screen - - - About screen - - - Help Screen (App help ? not contact help) - - - Feedback screen - - - Share Screen Design Considerations - Design must fit comfortably within the iPhone screen size (320px x 480px). - Support both portrait and landscape orientation. - Interface elements should be commonly found, best practice paradigms found on the iPhone. - Clean look and feel. Uncluttered. - Intuitive screen flow and obvious calls to actions (next steps). Judging Criteria Designs will be judged on the look and feel of the design elements (cleaner = better), the intuitiveness of the flow of the screens in the app as well as interface elements? look, functionality and placement. Contest Deliverables Design in a PSD, or Illustrator EPS, or AI format for final files. For judging consideration, please also submit compiled files as jpg files. Please submit screens/pages for all Sections in the wireframe, IN BOTH LANDSCAPE AND PORTRAIT views. Preview Image Please create your preview image as one (1) 1024x1024 px JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode at 72dpi and place a screenshot of your submission within it. Submission File All Requested Requirements stated above. Source Files All original source files of the submitted ideas. If you would like to submit notes please include a notes.txt file. Final Fixes As part of the final fixes phase you may be asked to modify presentation and graphics.