LUX - 48HR iPhone Digital Sales App Design Concepts Challenge

Welcome to another LUX Challenge! The LUX is a "Live User Experience Design Challenge" that we like to run as a fast design challenge live at a customer event or conference. The "LUX - 48HR iPhone Digital Sales App Design Concepts Challenge" will be run during the next 48 hours. At the end of the challenge we will take the presentation screen you create and share your collective creative talent! 

We are very excited to provide this cool design opportunity to the TopCoder Design Studio Community - a fun way to showcase your FAST!! design skills!

The LUX Challenge Series provide you with an opportunity to show digital leaders from some of the largest brands in the world just how good your user interface and user experience (UI/UX) design skills are. LUX challenges are fast, fun, and have more chances for you to capture prize money. 

This challenge is focused on creating concepts and ideas for a native iOS 8 iPhone application. We would like to build a sales application that can be used by businesses to empower their sales teams to manage, track, and achieve their sales goals.

Note: This is our 11th LUX Challenge! You do not need previous experience to jump in and start designing! Everyone can join the challenge!!

Cash in on this great opportunity to prove your design skills! Best of luck to you all!

Challenge Details

The goal of this challenge is to take the provided mobile design problem and design a simple, clean mobile user experience (UX)! We are looking for you to also think through how the application will be used and what new ideas/concepts you think might be interesting to our audience.

Challenge Timeline, Prizes and Rolling Checkpoint:
The challenge will start LIVE onsite at our California Event!
- Challenge Starts at 22:00 EST 01 February 2015
- Rolling Checkpoint will start at 22:00 EST 02 February 2015
- Challenge Ends at 22:00 EST 03 February 2015

We are offering 8 Placements! plus $50 Rolling Checkpoint prizes!
1) $1800
2) $1500
3) $1000
4) $500
5) $500
6) $250
7) $250
8) $150

Rolling Checkpoint Review ($50)
- Adam Morehead (adroc) will provide a design review if you submit your initial designs by 22:00 PM EST 02 February 2015
- Within the hour we will provide any design feedback/guidance - you must watch the forum for your feedback!
- All qualifying checkpoint submissions will win $50

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LUX Design Problem - Mobile Sales Tool and Adviser
We are looking for iPhone design concepts for a modern enterprise sales tool and adviser. This mobile sales tool empowers sales teams to manage, track, collaborate and achieve their sales goals. By supplying timely advice (coaching/adviser), useful sales tools and real-time notifications from clients and prospects the app helps the sales “road warrior” close deals faster.

Scenario: 
John has been using multiple desktop and mobile sales applications and tools to manage his sales opportunities. He learns about a iPhone application that integrates some of the same tools he currently uses and also offers a digital “Sales Coach” that offers up tips and advice as part of the application.

John is able to download the application, connect it to some of his existing applications and start collaborating and communicating with his sales team. John is able to map out sales calls, check on daily tasks, see incoming messages, edit and manage sales orders and see real time analytics of his opportunities. 

LUX Challenge Requirements
Prior to the event we asked attendees to answer some simple questions to help have some fun with the is application.
The results of the answers are listed below:

Application Name: Help create a name or use one of the example:
“CLOSE!” (as in close the deal!), CloseIT, Handshake, UberKoach, Grinder,  (feel free to think of something else!)

Logo Inspiration: "1980’s Video Game"
- Use the "Nintendo video game cartridge" or 8-bit graphics to inspire your logo design!
- Think about the shape and how you can use it to inspire your application logo!

Color Palette: Fruit: "Banana/Strawberries/Apples"
- See attached image. Fruit: Bananas/Strawberries and Apples - these 3 tied in our survey
- Use one or a combination of these colors
- Do not make your application all one color.. remember to use a great color palette!
- Refer to the design style and inspiration

Target Audience Style and Inspiration: The band "Journey"
- Search Journey album covers for design style inspiration! 
- Sales leader who likes inspirational and uplifting classic rock and roll!
- 1980’s or Retro = great grid, great typography, great color usage

Sales Application Priority Features:
1. Lead Management
2. Contract Tools
3. Payment Tools 

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Mobile Storyboards - Portrait View
- Design screens for iPhone 6 portrait display 
- 750x1334 (You do not need to create Retina - whatever "scales" for iPhone 6)
- Native iOS8 application. This must be designed for iOS8!
- We only need 7 screens plus the presentation screen
- Pick/design what you think will "showcase" this application. You can create alternative screens to the one's listed.
- In these LUX challenges the “Concepts” you propose really helps the presentation

Challenge Resources 
- Wireframes: DO NOT copy the wireframes (if you do.. everyone's designs will look the same!)
- Focus on creating your unique approach to this project and the user experience

Suggested Screens:
00) Application Logo
- Create a simple logo for your application
- Something simple and clean that does not distract from your screen designs

01) Dashboard (key screen)
The mobile dashboard is going to be key to this application. What are the key navigation needs? What should be the priorities from this page? Remember a dashboard is quick information (and visual!)
- Ability to view messages on the dashboard
- Ability to view open tasks and activities (what tasks have priority)
- Ability to view nearby accounts (GPS) 
- Ability to quickly access client and prospect accounts (displays critical account information as well as notes, photos, files, and visit recaps).
- Ability to quickly access Contracts (templates, active, closed, in-progress)
- The dashboard might also have high level metrics and graphs that show the sales rep’s overall sales landscape.

Key Navigation Items (feel free to edit/add or remove items)
- Leads 
- Tasks
- Opportunities
- Nearby Accounts/Map (Note: This can be combined within leads/opportunities/accounts)
- Sales knowledge center (adviser/coaches corner) 
- Contracts
- Camera (for capturing photos, geotagging and tagging to accounts)
- Product Catalog 
- Profile

02) Leads 
This is a full list of sales leads. A lead is a company or person you are not yet doing business with.
- A user is able to view sales leads, and sales lead details
- Filter to priority items and search their leads or create a new one
- See if a Lead is nearby
- Message feed to collaborate within the sales team
- Access to the Advisor/Coach’s Corner that links to an interactive sales coach that has tips and advice

Integration idea: (not required - just something to think about)
- Organize business cards and integrate with Evernote
- Snag a photo of cards and swipe to Evernote and into a CRM of choice.

03) Contracts
Ability to tap into a customer or opportunity and expedite contracts
- Access a list of contracts (templates, active, closed, in-progress)
- Ability to pull from a list of template contracts
- Gather electronic signatures from clients on contracts, forms or purchase orders 

Integration idea: (not required - just something to think about)
- Combine features from “box.com”, Evernote and Apple ID.
-- Templates are stored on BOX.com 
-- Touch to reveal enough detail on each contract
-- Drag contract you want to the middle
-- Select recipients and send contract
-- Notification that clients have e-signed (some visual check mark)
-- Apple ID is used to confirm user(s) (fingerprint scan)
-- Once contract is approved the Sales Rep can save to Evernote or similar service.

04) Opportunity Detail
This is the detailed view of an opportunity record. An opportunity is the chance to do business with an existing client.
- A sales rep is able to see where the opportunity is at in a visual way
- Review and complete upcoming tasks
- Gain insights and tips from the sales coach
- Collaborate with sales associates on the account.
- Take and tag photos to the opportunity
- If an opportunity is nearby it alerts the user
- Map view

05) Adviser/Coach 
- Upon clicking on the “Adviser/Coach” button the sales adviser is launched 
- This is where dynamic content is displayed that helps the sales rep in the sales process 
- Offers up sales tips, sales playbook, and other insightful knowledge that helps the sales rep with his opportunity.
- The adviser might have daily tips and advice

06) Search Results
- The goal is to quickly find relevant content and have it be displayed easily on a mobile device
- Think about spacing, size and a user to be able to tap and touch this content
- User can perform search from any screen in the application

07) Unique Feature
Think of something unique to this application (choose from the listed ideas or create your own) 
- Camera usage and geo-tagging
- Expenses: Ability to use Apple Pay and track your expense and receipts (and send to an expense tracking application)
- Collaboration features such as internal messages, announcements, and client notes make for efficient and positive team collaboration
- Inventory management: product monitoring features to monitor prices, out of stock items, product availability
- Is there a button to open video chat, text or call with the sales team or a lead

08) Presentation Screen!
- Presentation Size = 1920x1080 (16:9 Ratio) - It must be this size!
- We need to quickly take your designs and show it to the audience!
- Spend more time on your presentation screen as its the first thing we will show the audience!
- See attachments of great presentation screens!

Judging Criteria
- How well you design the mobile application concept!
- How well you design this application for iPhone and using iOS 8 design patterns
- Cleanliness of your graphics and design.
- User interface design

Submission & Source Files
Preview Image
- Create your preview image as one (1) 1920x1080 JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode at 72dpi and place a screenshot of your submission within it.
- Also include a copy of your preview image in your submission file

Submission File
Please upload PNG images in a zip file with all requested contest requirements stated above. Number your files (01, 02, 03, etc) this will help review them in order.

Source Files
All original source files of the submitted design. Files should be created in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator and saved as layered PSD/AI files. 

Final Fixes
We most likely will not have Final Fixes - Have fun!!