Challenge Summary
Welcome to the FAST!! TopCoder - Crowdopolis PPT Presentation Graphics Design Contest. The goal of this contest is to help us design a couple of slides for our Crowdopolis presentation next week. This contest will be fast as the presentation is next Wednesday!
We will be providing a template to as a design base - we want you to focus on the different slide concepts and illustrations! We only need you to design the interior graphics/illustration and not the entire slide.
Let us know if you have any questions - remember FAST!!! Milestone!
Round 1
Your submitted design/illustrations for a review. Please submit at least the first 4 slides so we can comment and let you know if your going in the correct design direction. Please number your images (01,02,03,04 etc)
Round 2
Final graphics/illustrations plus feedback
Contest Details
We have a presentation next week and we need a couple of illustrations that help explain our Studio + crowdsourcing concepts! Listed below are the slides and what we will be talking about during each slide. We are just looking to capture simple illustrations on each slide that helps the audience understand and stay engaged in the presentation.
Design Guidance
- We like the idea of the "Real World" TV show graphics - the graffiti/illustration style of that logo
- We want the illustrations to be clear in concept but the graphics can be grungy and fun
- We have some existing illustrations within the template - you can make your graphics work with these existing or create a new style but make sure you update all the illustrations to be consistent
Presentation Slides and Details
Slide 4) How to Supplement your Staff through Crowdsourcing
Presentation: Crowd of designers plus user/staff graphic
See example slide
- Graphic: An Illustration showing a single user or staff that has access to Studio and the wide range of inputs/outputs that can happen.
Slide 5) Do More with Less
Presentation: Continuous Cycle Graphic
- Show Web/Application that keeps evolving with continuous design and UX improvements
Slide 6) How to Build a Brand Following
Presentation: Graphic showing the crowd following and supporting the brand/company
- Thoughts on this? (see example slide)
- You can use the Ferguson logo if needed (you can stylize it for the presentation)
Slide 7) User Experience Problem Solving
Presentation: Graphic showing a fun or whimiscal "design machine" (see example: contraption2.jpg)
- Fun "design machine" that shows the crowd designing and helping solve problems and different outputs like:
Design Concepts
Wireframes
Storyboards
Prototypes
Slide 8) Thank you
Presentation: Graphic showing a fun or whimiscal "Thank you"
- Thank you page (typography in the same style as the other graphics)
Reference Files
crowdopolis-presentation.pptx - you will find details/layout of the slides here
reference-presentation.pptx - some reference illustrations/styles
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
- Audience members at a presentation about crowdsourcing
Judging Criteria
- How well you design the requested graphics!
- Cleanliness of your graphics and design
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
PPT size graphics that will fit nicely on a 1024 × 768 sized slide. Please make sure your image will fit on the provided template PPT. Submission files should be JPG/PNG and you can either just submit the individual graphics or place them within the PPT - your choice.
Source Files
All source files of all graphics created in either Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator and saved as editable, layered files at 1024X768 resolution. IF you create a PPT file - it should be packaged so that the fonts and graphics are embedded.
Final Fixes
As part of the final fixes phase you may be asked to modify your graphics/illustrations (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.