Capgemini - Cloud File Sharing iPad App Design Concepts Challenge

Welcome to Capgemini - Cloud File Sharing iPad App Design Concepts Challenge! Goal of this challenge is to come up with an iPad design concepts for an application that helps store files and also allows the user to share documents with their colleagues..

Looking for your smart designs that gives the best experience to users!

We have a very quick checkpoint deadline - JUMP IN NOW to grab these prizes..

Round 1

Submit your initial designs for Checkpoint Feedback

1. Shelf View (iPad Portrait)
2. Box Main View (iPad Portrait)
3. Upload a File (iPad Portrait)
4. Sharing Documents (iPad Portrait)

Feel free to add any other additional screens which are necessary to explain your concept.
Notes.jpg: Please note any comments about your design for the Client
Make sure all pages have correct flow! Use correct file numbering. (00, 01, 02, 03)

Round 2

Your Final designs for all the required designs with all Checkpoint Feedback implemented.

0. Login/Register (iPad Portrait)
1. Shelf View (iPad Portrait)
2. Box Main View (iPad Portrait)
3. Upload a File (iPad Portrait)
4. Sharing Documents (iPad Portrait)
5. Search (iPad Portrait)

Feel free to add any other additional screens which are necessary to explain your concept.
Notes.jpg: Please note any comments about your design for the Client
Make sure all pages have correct flow! Use correct file numbering. (00, 01, 02, 03)

Sharing documents in the cloud can offer companies huge benefits but there are often concerns about security. myvaultigo (below given reference site) offers a high level of security through their web app, but our customer would like to be able to use a dedicated iPad app to upload, share and search for their documents.

The key design metaphor for this app is the box file, much like you'd find in an office being used to hold invoices, letters and many other types of documents. In the app these box files will be used to group together whatever combination of files, documents, etc. you wish.

IMPORTANT!! Designs Considerations:
- Looking for modern, intuitive user interface - application should be easy to use.
- Focus on the design being a great mobile experience - the application should be designed for iPad.
- We have provided a reference link to help with the overall idea, please DO NOT COPY.
- Give importance to the overall layout and think on how a user would interact with the content on the page.
- Show all the screens and provide a user flow/click-path so we can see how the interactions fit together in the application
- Make sure all your icons/graphics are vectors, so it helps us convert your storyboards to any required size as this will eventually be developed as a responsive app!
- Please create your designs for iPad portrait (standard view) with a size of 768 x 1024px

Branding Guidelines:
- Please follow the branding guidelines from www.capgemini.com
- Feel free to use the colors, fonts and also grab the logo from above site

Scenario:
John works for a leading "big 4" accounting company. As a Partner or Project Manager I would like to:
- Login and/or register - in so doing, identify myself as working for this accounting company
- Find, request and download documents** to help me both sell more work or deliver on existing clients (ideally I would find them through client name, document type, author/team or other related metadata/tags)
- Upload/store these documents in my own personal vault, so I can access them later
- Rank them according to their usefulness
- Share my own documents with colleagues (and perhaps even promote internally)
- Ask questions to the author of the documents

(any other functionality from Vaultigo.com and/or my vaultigo.com and/or elsewhere you would like to suggest)

Reference Site:
Please have a look at this reference site (www.myvaultigo.co.uk), this has a similar functionality to what we are looking for - we recommend you to create an account with this site to help you understand the requirements, but please DO NOT COPY.
- Vaultigo.com is a cloud service which allows consumers to securely receive, store and manage bills from utility providers, phone companies, pay TV providers, and so on.
- One such use case is for professional services companies - like corporate solicitors and the big four accounting companies - to securely find, store and share documents.
- These documents could include thought leadership, third party market research, past RFP responses, proposals, contracts and statements of works, project plans, solutions, deliverables from past projects, templates for future deliverables, case studies and credentials

Required Screens:
We need below screens to be designed..

0. Login/Register:
- Provide a way for the user to login into this app
- If the user is an employee at clients company, then they will have option to enter the official mail id and password to enter into the app.
- What other details, do you think need to be captured here?

1. Shelf View:
- We need to show the user shelves, and on each shelf are the box files. For this challenge - you can use these box file names: “Proposals", "Contracts", "Project Plans", "Deliverables", "Case Studies", "Thought Leadership", "Other Documents”. (see above reference link to understand this better)
- User needs to have option to add more box files to any of the shelves.
- App allows the box files to be ranked based on priority.
- How do you think these shelves should look?
- Show options to remove a box file
- Would it good if the user has the ability to name/rename a shelf?
- Will it be good idea to show statistics on the number of files within each of the box?
- User should have the ability to view, edit and add tags to shelf/box files.
- Looking for thoughts on how the user could get the best experience out of your design.

2. Box Main View:
- In this view, user will see list of files or folders.
- Within each of the boxes they should be able to create folders.
- Within folders or boxes user will be able to upload files and also tag them - tags will be used to search
- Users will have the ability to ask questions to the author of the documents.
- We need to provide options for the users to download the document.
- Show options to remove an uploaded file
- Should allow the user to share the box file with other users
- What else do you think will really help a “business person” with this app?

3. Upload a File:
- User will have option to upload a file from any screen of the app
- How do you think this should be handled? show us your ideas.
- After the user chooses a file to upload, how do we show the upload progress?

4. Sharing Documents:
- User will have the ability to share a document - what will this look like?
- They will have ability to share documents with other users

5. Search Documents:
- A user should be able to initiate search for "files / folders" from any screen of the app, so plan your designs accordingly.
- This app provides search options that would help him find the required documents/folders through client name, document type, author/team, tags or other related metadata.
- User will be able to quickly find, request and download documents, it help to both sell more work or deliver on existing clients.
- How will the search results be shown, also how could you indicate a file path?

Target Audience:
- Employees of major accounting and consulting services companies.

Judging Criteria:
- How well you plan the user experience and capture your ideas visually
- Cleanliness of your graphics and design
- Your design should possible to build and make sense as a mobile application

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, or Adobe Illustrator as a layered AI 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. We may ask you to update your design or graphics based on checkpoint feedback.