Challenge Summary
Welcome to the Hestia My Lists "Admin" Design Concepts Contest. In this contest we are looking for your design concepts for designing and building the "Administration" application for the "My Lists" widget/section of the Hestia FOL site. We are going to provide you with some basic Admin features and would like you to concept on how the user would manage the "My Lists" features.
Round 1
We would like to see your initial Admin screens for the Milestone review
- Initial design of the Admin screens
- Initial design of the Spreadsheet upload
- Initial design of the Customer Search features
Round 2
Final Design of your Admin screens:
- Design of "My List" Admin pages plus any updates based on client feedback
Contest Summary
Hestia always looking to give their customers a better user experience by updating and enhancing the User Experience (UX) of their existing websites and web applications. This project is focused on designing a "NEW" internal application that will manage the "My Lists" features on the Hestia FOL site.
Design Problem
Hestia support staff needs the ability to manage/administer "product lists" that are created within the "My Lists" widget within the Hesita FOL site. Hestia currently does not have an easy way to manage customers existing "My Lists" or to create/upload lists for a customer that might call their support line.
This contest is to design UX concepts on how the My Lists Admin screens might work and look graphically.
Explanation: What is "My Lists"?
"My Lists" is a widget/page within the Hestia FOL website that allows customers the ability to save "Product Lists" for future use.
- If I search for a product and want to save it for later I can add it to a List within "My Lists"
- If I am a plumber and need to re-order the same productsall the time I can quickly make a List of products in "My Lists" that I can add to my Shopping Cart whenever I need to buy them
- If I need to bid a project I can create a list of products for a client and export it to an Excel document.
- If I have an existing Excel document of products I can upload it to "My Lists" and create a new list within Hestia FOL so it is saved in my account.
- At anytime I can click on a product and "Add to My Lists" within the Hestia FOL website.
Some Design Ideas for the Admin Application
- Note: This will be an internal application so it does not need to follow the existing Hestia GUI Kit
- Attached is MyList2-UI-Prototype.zip and MyLists2-Screens.zip so you can see the "Customer View" of the "My Lists" widget.
- Research "Admin" features and user experience for applications. Are you familiar with WordPress, Django, Joomla "Admin" user experience design?
- We are looking for your thoughts on how the Admin should "work" and "look" graphically (keep it simple!)
- Some of the information/data will be displayed in a lot of rows - think of the extreme situation
- Note: You can reference the attached FOL-Dashboard-Concept.zip as a design base to get you started - we are open to all new design/colors/concepts!
Number your screens and think of the user "click-path" - tell us the Admin user experience story
My Lists Admin Feature Requests
1. Login: Screens
- User needs to login
- Do not spend a lot of time on this screen
2. Upload spreadsheet of products
For the first release we will not be searching for products - just spreadsheet uploads
- An Admin would need to be able to upload a spreadsheet of products.
- An Admin needs the ability to create a list and assign it to "Everyone" within Hestia FOL
- What are the features of the Admin Spreadsheet upload?
How does the data, products, information look when uploaded (review the existing Customer view)
3. Ability to add default lists
- An Admin would need the ability to create "default" lists for "Everyone" (like Favorites)
How would an Admin change the default list? Any ideas?
4. Search (for Customers - not products)
- An Admin would need to be able to find existing Companies and Customers (search + results)
- An Admin would need to be able to see/choose what Hestia Branch that a Customer is associated with
- An Admin would need to be able to see/choose what Hestia Warehouse that a Customer is associated with
- An Admin would need to be able to edit/add items to a Hestia FOL users "My Lists"
How does the Admin find users?
5. Ability to select specific user lists and edit/add items
- Once an Admin finds a Customer then need to be able to edit/add to their "My Lists"
How does the Admin find users and edit their Lists?
6. Move and Copy to another list
- Check UI Prototype, we need same feature on Admin view
- An Admin needs the ability to move or copy products between lists.
How does the Admin move/copy products?
7. Quick Order
- An Admin needs the ability to type/copy paste from a CSV file into a web form (textarea) and have it find the products
How does the Admin quickly copy/paste into a webform and find products for lists?
8. Error Messages
- What success/error messaging looks when user upload spreadsheet?
- What sucess/error messaging would a user see on Searches?
Any other features
- Feel free to suggest any new ideas to help Administator "My Lists" easily
IMPORTANT
- Keep things consistent. This means all graphic styles should work together.
- All of the graphics should have a similar feel and general aesthetic appearance
Target User
- Hestia Administrators
Judging Criteria
- How well you create the My List Admin design and think about the user experience - focus on the design concepts!
- Simple and elegant "Admin" graphics and design
- Easy to use by internal user.
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
Submit JPG/PNG for your submission files.
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 your graphics (sizes or colors) or modify overall colors.
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.