Challenge Summary
The Healthcare Fraud Prevention Project (HFPP) is building a system that will help to identify fraud, waste, and abuse in healthcare claims. The front end of the system is a web application that will be used to conduct studies. The overall user flow of the web app has already been designed. Now we are looking for visual concepts to define the functionality of a GUI for analyzing claims that are collected by the system.
Overview
The attached storyboards demonstrate the overall functionality of the study management application.
We are using the following terminology:
- a partner is an insurance company that has joined the HFPP network
- a claim is a request for payment from an insurance company
- a study is a plan to look for fraudulent, wasteful, and abusive claims
- data requests are sent out during a study to ask for claims from partners
- data responses are the claims sent to the study management application by partners
In this contest, we want to fill in the part of the interface where data responses are visually analyzed.
The relevant storyboard screen is 10-3visual-tab.png, showing two areas:
- chart selection (at left)
- chart display (at right)
We're looking for visual concepts depicting the user flow and graphical themes of both areas. The whole tab can be expanded vertically but not horizontally.
Chart selection
Many different chart types are described in a Wikipedia article. We want to offer a selection of chart types that make sense for analyzing claim data.
For example, it makes sense to generate histograms in which the vertical axis shows the number of claims and the horizontal axis shows the year in which the claim occurred.
Another versatile chart type is the pie chart. For a set of claims, the pie chart can be subdivided into slices showing the proportion of claims originating from each insurer, from each partner, or for each procedure code. Note that the user controls in the left portion of the tab must be appropriate for the chart type.
Your task is to choose a representative sampling of reasonable chart types and visually demonstrate the appropriate controls.
Chart display
In the right portion of the tab, we'd like to see your visual concepts for the appearance of each chart type and for any associated interaction. Many different UI effects are possible.
For example, hovering over a bar in a histogram or over a slice in a pie chart can cause an info bubble to appear.
Another possibility is the direct manipulation of charts by clicking and dragging in the right pane in order to adjust the axis length, for example.
Again, we're asking you to supply creative ideas and graphical themes.
Submission requirements
Please submit your visual concept as a set of annotated storyboards. You can include the annotations inside or around each storyboard. The emphasis in this contest is on user flow, interface concepts, and graphical themes.
You do not have to deliver production-ready storyboards. The winning visual concept will be used as input to software contests, which will finalize the desired functionality before we come back to Studio for production graphics.
Target audience
The visual concepts will be provided to software architects to help them define the software logic behind these parts of the user interface.
Judging criteria
- completeness: Does your visual concept cover the required functionality?
- clarity: Do we get a good sense of the work flow in these parts of the interface?
- graphics: Are your visuals aesthetically attractive?
What to submit
Submission: PNG images of your design concept.
Source: Graphical source files.
Preview image: 1024 x 1024 screenshot in JPEG or PNG format.
Final fixes
You may be asked for minor changes to meet the stated requirements of this contest.
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