Challenge Summary
Round 1
Start a Project Now(s) - Your submitted design solution for a review.Notes = Any comments about your design for the Client
Round 2
Start a Project Now(s) - Final Designs = Final All requested items
Notes = Any comments about your design for the Client
TopCoder has recently introduced the TopCoder Cockpit Application, which allows Customers, as well as Staff, Copilots, etc., to directly engage with the TopCoder processes and Community.
TopCoder Cockpit allows users to
- Launch and Monitor Contests
- View Submissions
- Choose Winners for Competitions
- Pay for and Download Finished Products
and generally manage a project within the TopCoder platform.
TopCoder Cockpit is the bridge between the Client and the TopCoder Community that gives a customer the ability to build software and complete design projects of any size or scope through competition.
Contest Concepts
We need you to help provide us with more ways and techniques to interact with first time users. In the end the goal of this wireframe is to enhance the user experience when entering Cockpit. We attached Cockpit HTML/CSS/JS Prototype, click around the prototype to experience it. Do your research and plan new and clever ways of how to represent information, interactions etc to users in Cockpit. Suggest some "Visual icons/indicators" that designers should use in future contests.
When a user is in cockpit, they should have some kind of flow that begins with simple messaging like "Start A Project Now" that then walks them through clear steps to setup a project.
Start a Project Now
- Web forms play a big part in every day web use. refer this link for best-practices
http://sixrevisions.com/user-interface/10-tips-for-optimizing-web-form-submission-usability/
- Provide any hints?
- Form Validation?
- Show message/notification?
- Any more idea?
Step 2. What type of project is this?
- We don't have this feature yet, but we'd like to provide project templates that a user can pick and automatically generate game plans from. so, it would actually create all the draft contests.
- Any more idea?
Step 3. When do you want to start the first contest?
- Show message/notification?
- What client should do next?
- Can client revert their actions?
- How many steps again to complete?
- Any more idea?
Step 4. Would you like a copilot for this project? Or do you already have one?
- Presents how client can choose to use a copilot, or already have their choice.
- What need to display here?
- Any more idea?
Step 5. Activate your first contest.
- Is there will be any message/notification?
- Is there will be any other elements that will help client?
- Should create contest estimating time?
- Should create contest estimating budget?
- How to presents related links of contest?
- Any more idea?
Target Audience
- New Customers
- Non expert Customers
- Administrator and Copilots
Judging Criteria
- How well you update the navigation and it makes sense/helps the user.
- Cleanliness of your layout.
- User Experience.
Submission & Source Files
Preview Image
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
Wireframes should be built in HTML, Axure, MS Visio or OmniGraffle. The resulting files are not critical in this contest. The most important point is that all the content is listed and the pages are linked together to show page flow.
Source Files
All original source files of the submitted ideas. If you would like to submit notes please include ia notes.txt file.
Final Fixes
As part of the final fixes phase you may be asked to modify content or user click paths.
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.