Challenge Summary
Welcome to the Styx - MCS Upgrade Web Application Wireframes! Styx provides a Key Management system for tracking users of mechanical keys. They expects to replace the existing Manufacturing Control System (MCS) which is a C++ / MFC / C# / SQL Server application by reverse engineering the existing application and splitting functionality into a web application and a thick client application(windows forms application). For this contest, the client is looking clean, simple, impressive and user-friendly wireframe design for the web application part.
Round 1
1) Initial wireframe for the following pages:
Landing Page
Manage MCS Users Pages
Manage Order Records Pages
Assign Products to Station
Manage Customer Records Pages
Configure Customer Products Page
Manage Customer System Code Records Pages
Manage Product Records Pages
2) Any note for the client about your submission
Round 2
1) Final wireframe submission with all the features mentioned in the Requirement section
2) Any note for the client about your submission
Primary Goal & Design Considerations
For this contest, you are going to create the wireframes for for Styx - MCS upgrade web applicaiton based from the provided conceptualization document, and with the features outlined below.
Requirement
We need the following screens and features. Please refer to provdied conceptualization document while working on this contest.
Login/Logout
- The Supervisor will be able to login to the application through the existing intranet web-site where the new application will be integrated.
View Landing Page
- The landing page will show some useful widgets with the latest data, related to that supervisor– say, summary of last orders, summary of just fulfilled orders, information about order assignments, lists of products, inventory, cartons, etc.
- Be noted that users with different roles could have different things shown on the landing page.
- More details can be found in the conceptualization final fix.
View Help
- The supervisore can easily get the help information on the intranet application usage
Print web-pages
- The application will print the current web-page by user’s web-browser.
- The Supervisor can print a hardcopy of any data, orders, products, assignments, configuration, etc. data page on the printer.
Manage MCS Users Pages
- The Supervisor can freely manage all the users of the MCS Client application.
- More details can be found in the conceptualization document.
Manage Order Records Pages
- The Supervisor can fully manage orders in MCS.
- He/she can manually enter new orders, enter order number, choose order type, associate them with customers, enter order/export dates, enter list of needed product types, quantity of each product, etc.
- More details can be found in the conceptualization document
Upload Orders for Manufacturing
- The Supervisor canupload a file with the bunch of orders – like MS Excel spreadsheet generated by some other external system (from Oracle database of Customer Service support system).
- More details can be found in the conceptualization document.
- The Supervisor can provide an MS Excel with orders data and it will be automatically imported by the application.
Assign Products to Station
- The Supervisor can assign products to any chosen MCS station order to the related MCS Client station on the manufacturing facility.
- The Supervisor can also assign a part of the order and just chosen products to some MCS station, then another part of the order or other products to another MCS station, etc., so the entire order will be split by parts and fulfilled by multiple MCS stations.
- More details can be found in conceptualization document
Manage Customer Records Pages
- The Supervisor can manage all the information about customers (that issued orders).
- The new customers can be created, the existing customers can be updated by the Supervisor.
Configure Customer Products Page
- The Supervisor can setup configuration options for the customer products.
- A configuration set can be shared by multiple customers, but each customer will have just one set of configuration options.
- for more details, please refer to section 4.4.11 in the conceptualization document.
Manage Customer System Code Records Pages
- The supervisor can freely manage system codes for the customer’s products.
- The Supervisor can remove existing system codes if needed.
- The Supervisor can freely view summary lists of the system codes, and view their details.
Manage Product Records Pages
- The Supervisor can freely manage all the products in the system.
- The Supervisor will provide product identifications, types, description, maximum count per carton, type of the programming device, etc. data for the product.
- for more details, please refer to section 4.4.13 in the conceptualization document.
Reserve Product Serial Numbers
- The Supervisor can freely reserve serial numbers of products.
- Supervisor can create new reserved serial numbers and update existing reserved serial numbers.
Manage Inventory Key Records Pages
- The Supervisor can freely manage all the inventory keys in the system.
- The Supervisor can view or enter/edit General, Manufacturing, Programming, and Key History data for any given device.
- More details can be found in the conceptualization document.
Manage Inventory Device Records
- The Supervisor can freely manage all the inventory devices in the system.
- The Supervisor can view or enter/edit General, Manufacturing, Programming, and Device History data for any given key.
- More details can be found in the conceptualization document.
Manage Inventory Accessory Records
- The Supervisor can freely manage all the inventory accessories in the system.
- Just the serial number, carton identification, part number version, order number, product type, etc. data of the inventory accessory will be provided by the Supervisor.
- For more details, please refer to section 4.4.17 in the conceptualization document.
Manage Carton Records
- The Supervisor can freely manage cartons in the system.
- Just the carton identification, date of packing, order number, part number, etc. data of the carton will be provided by the Supervisor.
- more dettails can be found in the conceptualization document.
Generate Reports
- The Supervisor can get various reports and statistics data (as it was available in the old application).
- Various reports are supported. Please refer to conceptualization document and existing application screens for more details.
Perform Searching Page
- The Supervisor can easily find any needed data in the application (orders, users, customers, products, inventory devices, keys, and accessories, cartons, etc.).
- More details can be found in the conceptualization document.
Localize GUI Pages
- The Intranet application system will automatically retrieve all the needed internationalized strings from the existing DLL.
Target Audience
- Supervisor
Judging Criteria
Your submission will be judged on the following criteria:
- User Experience
- Completeness and accuracy of the wireframe as defined in the requirements.
- How well your wireframes provide a consistent user flow
- How well you implement the required data and any suggestions, interactions and user flow you recommend (provide any notes or comments for the client)
Submission & Source Files
Preview Image
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
Generated HTML files with all the requested contest requirements stated above.
Source Files
Wireframes should be built in Axure. The resulting files should have generated HTML files. Also, all the content must be listed and the pages are linked together to show page flow.
Final Fixes
As part of the Final Fix phase, you may be asked to remove, update, or change some features of the wireframe.
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.