Challenge Summary
LendingTreeAutos.com was recently redesigned by our community and the client would like an alternate design for their articles pages. Your task is to reimagine the layout / flow of these pages.
Round 1
At the end of Round 1, the Client will choose two (2) Round 1 winners, each will win $50 as Round 1 Milestone Winners. These winners and any member who had a passing submission in round one will be eligible to compete in Round 2 for the additional $900 in prizes
Round 2
Round 2 will start with the announcement of the Two (2) $50 Round 1 winners and their design review.
The re-designed site is currently live at http://www.lendingtreeautos.com/. You will find the articles pages that will be redesigned listed under the "Research" tab. For the purpose of this contest, you will only need to redesign one articles section.
The TWO (2) pages that you are required to include / redesign are: http://www.lendingtreeautos.com/new-cars/advice - AND - http://www.lendingtreeautos.com/new-cars/advice/new-car-incentives-and-rebates-101
Specifics:
- You must include the header / main menu and footer in your designs. These can be included by taking screenshots and making them part of your storyboard. Note that these elements CANNOT BE ALTERED. (See example.png)
- You must follow the exisitng typography rules (font style / size / headline colors / static text colors / link colors, etc) and basic styles of elements (form elements, framing elements, etc) and may NOT add new colors.
- If/Where you add new elements, they must fit so well with the exiting style that it is impossible to tell that the articles section was not part of the original design!
- You must include the current article AND the ability to access other articles from the same page. How this is achieved is 100% up to you. If you need to add more pages to your submission to show various states / flow you are free to do so.
- Note that the site CAN support: previous / next links and social networking / sharing, so if you wish to include them you are free to do so.
- Note that the site CANNOT support: comments and/or articles search, so please do NOT include these elements.
You are free to submit up to five (5) variations on your concept, but multiple submissions with tiny variations are discouraged as generally it is too difficult to discern what the difference is - if your submissions have smaller variations, please include a note detailing the differences.
CONTEST DELIVERABLES
Round One
- Two (2) pages - both are required
Round Two
- Two (2) pages - both are required
Preview Images
Please create your preview image as one (1) 1024x1024px 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.
Source Files
All original source files of the submitted design. Files should be created in Adobe Photoshop and saved as layered PSD file.
Final Fixes
As part of the final fixes phase you may be asked to modify content and/or colors.
If your PSD file contains "junk" layers, is not well organized or presents in a manner that makes the file less than useful to the client as an editable source file (layers have been merged incorrectly, are not grouped/labeled correctly, etc) you will be asked to repair the file in the final fix phase.
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.