Challenge Summary
Welcome to Microbac - Customer Web Portal Storyboard Design Contest.
Microbac is a commercial laboratory testing company that performs variaty testing service for their customer. Some services provided by them are environmental testing of air, food testing, agrochemical testing, physical and consumer product testing, antimicrobial efficacy testing and pharmaceutical testing. Currently there are four Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) that client have to manage these testing operations and they want to define an efficient solution for providing central data from these 4 LIMS for their customer to gather the service results.
We provide you with a wireframe and style guide, there are 11 pages you need to create and some modal windows in each screen, at the end of this contest we are looking for clean, professional and great user experience storyboard of this application.
Round 1
Following screens are needed to be submitted in milestone phase including all modal windows in each screen:
- Login
- Home page
- Invoices
- Resources
- My Account
Round 2
You must submit all required screens. Please fix your solution on this round based on feedback at milestone phase.
Project Overview
Microbac is an analytical laboratory testing firm that seeks to leverage a customer care portal that will attract, engage, convert and retain customers to increase top line revenue growth. Through the use of customization and personalization, Microbac will engage and allowing their customer to quickly locate the information they need. Microbac is certain that improving access to information, demonstrating thought leadership in its online offering and improving customer care will increase the likelihood that a customer will return to the site and continue to do business. There are currently 4 LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) used by the customers to manage laboratory operations. The main goal of this project is to define an efficient solution for providing central data from these LIMS for the customers to gather service results.
General Guideline
- Wireframe contains the basic flow of what you need to design in this contest. Please explore the wireframe to get details of screens, functionality and modal windows that are required to be created. Although we provide the wireframe, we are still looking for any ideas you have to improve the storyboard. Feel free to include any ideas you have, no restrictions and include notes about it.
- Please provide hover state for buttons, links and images in the storyboard to help us better understand while reviewing the storyboard.
- Provide any notes about your design or each elements to help us better understand the storyboard and number your screens and put screen names in your submission file to help us easily reviewing.
- You are encouraged to create icon and graphic so your solution looks appealing. Some part of functionality in Wireframe is presented using modal windows, you are allowed to came up with your solution if there is better way to present it.
Design Requirement
There are 11 screens that need to be created and some modal windows in each screens. Following are some details information you should noted:
1. Login
- You need to show screen for invalid credential and repeated invalid login attempt.
- Create screen for resetting the password and screen for registration form.
2. Home Page
- Make sure to show the screen how the table is grouped.
- Show both screen when Advanced search is opened and closed.
- Create screen for sample description. You can see the screen by clicking the Sample Description in recent samples table.
- Create screen that shows tooltip in status colum in recent samples table.
3. Results
- Shows both screen when Filter is opened and closed.
- Show screen for project information. You can see the screen by clicking the sample name in the table.
- Create screen that shows the table when filtering is performed.
4. Invoices. Create both screen when Advanced search is opened and closed.
5. Resources. This is the page for resources of the application. Come up with solution how to present them in a better way.
6. My Account
- Create screen when the account is in edit state.
- Come up with solution how to present the Contact if there is many numbers of contact.
7. Home Page (Project Manager). In Create Regulation screen, shows a way to upload more than one file.
8. Manage Message (Project Manager). This page contains functionality for Project Manager to sent important message for customer that will appear in customer home page.
9. Manager Permission (Project Manager). This page contains functionality for Project Manager to manage permission for all customers.
10. Home Page and Manage Message (Administrator). This page contains functionality for Administrator to manage message for both Project Manager and Customers.
11. Manage Account (Administrator). Administrator will manage all user accounts in this page.
Branding Guideline
- Follow the provided style guide (Microbac - Style Guide.pdf)
- Content width size is 1024px.
Target Audience
- Customers, their background varies from staff in food production to consultant engineers to environmental scientists.
- Project Managers, they are Microbac employee who facilitate and coordinate testing services.
- Administrators, they are Microbac employee who can fully manage application, database and user account.
Judging Criteria
- Your solution completeness. All required functionality defined in Wireframe should be addressed in your design.
- Cleanliness, creativiy and graphic appeals.
- How professional your solution designed and consistent.
- How well your design follow the style guide.
Submission Deliverable
Following are all items you need to provide in your submission:
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
Please upload PNG/JPEG images in a zip file with all requested contest requirements stated above.
Source File
All original source files of the submitted design. Files should be created in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator (or equivalent) and saved as layered PSD/AI files.
Final Fix
As part of the final fixes phase you may be asked to modify your graphics, images (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.