Challenge Summary
Welcome to IBM - Connections Community Navigation Icon Design Challenge!
For this challenge, we are looking for you to come up with designs for 31 icons that will be used within IBM communities, IBM Communities are social spaces where users can learn more about a specific tool or community within IBM. They are most readily engaged by users when there are easy-to-understand icons that help a user navigate the community.
We're really excited to see your icon designs for this challenge!
Round 1
Submit your initial icon designs for Checkpoint feedbacks:
- The first 16 icons.
- Notes.jpg: Any comments about your design for the Client.
Round 2
Your Final designs for all required icons with all checkpoint feedback implemented:
- All icons.
- Notes.jpg: Any comments about your design for the Client.
For this challenge, we need 31 icons to be created; these icons will help the user choose which part of the community / wiki to select based on graphical icons.
Design Guidelines:
Please make sure you follow below design requirements
- Theme: Clean, Serious and Professional.
- All icons need to be easily edited and resized, so please create them as vectors.
- You must submit .ai icon source files.
- We encourage you to research the icon based on the given concepts.
- All graphics must be consistent and look to be part of the same "icon set" (for example, use the same perspective, weight, etc).
- Icons should be made available in a color palette, so community developers have a suite of colors to choose from (at least 3-5 color choices).
- All submission MUST follow IBM Design Language, refer client website: http://www.ibm.com/design/language/index.shtml
-- Iconography: http://www.ibm.com/design/language/framework/visual/iconography.shtml
Required Icons:
Provide 31 icons that will help user navigate the community.
- Home
- Getting started
- Installation
- FAQ
- Known Issues
- News / Updates
- Getting Started / User Guide
- Discussion Forums
- Change Log
- Broken Links
- Report issues
- Testimonials
- Ask a question
- Tools
- Announcements
- Meet the team
- Share your ideas
- Events / Calendar
- Plans & Requirements
- Status updates
- Education/Learning Materials
- Files / Presentations
- Demos / videos
- Share on your profile
- Strategy
- Mobile
- Social
- w3/intranet
- Analytics
- Cloud
- Meeting replays
Target Audience:
- IBM Communities users.
Judging Criteria:
- Cleanliness and consistency of your graphics and icon designs.
- Quality of your icons.
- Simplicity.
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 Illustrator. Each icon should be a single layer, which is easy to apply color changes to.
Final Fixes
As part of the final fixes phase you may be asked to modify your graphics (sizes or colors) or modify overall colors. We may ask you to update your design or graphics based on checkpoint feedback and instructions.
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.