Challenge Summary
Welcome to the Socrata Mobile App Screen Design Challenge! For this challenge we are looking for you to help us convert an existing web application to screens for an HTML5 mobile design. The client for this project, Socrata, currently has an online citycheckbook application for their client: the City of Davenport. Your goal for this challenge is to come up with screen designs for a mobile version (responsive HTML5 mobile design) of this existing citycheckbook application.
Round 1
Round 1 will focus on the following screens:
1) Splash/Loading Screen
2) Landing Page
3) Main Graph Visualization, Alternate Visualization
4) "Drill In" Graph and Table
5) "Check" Screen
NOTE: See the existing web app and the use cases below to better understand the screens / functionality of the app.
Round 2
In Round 2, you will need to include all Round 1 screens (updated based on checkpoint feedback).
1) Splash/Loading Screen
2) Landing Page
3) Main Graph Visualization, Alternate Visualization
4) "Drill In" Graph and Table
5) "Check" Screen
Challenge Description:
For this challenge we are looking for you to help us come up with screen designs for a mobile version of the existing citycheckbook web app: http://citycheckbook.davenporttoday.com/#/. This existing web app is for one of Socrata’s clients, the City of Davenport, IA. The goal for this challenge is to help convert the existing citycheckbook application to mobile screen designs that can be used to build a responsive, HTML5 mobile app.
Please keep in mind that Socrata would like to have the underlying mobile design and structure be portable to as many other clients (e.g. other cities or orgs) as possible. When you design for this client, City of Davenport, consider Socrata first but also think about ways to bring in the client's brand / look and feel into the design in a way that Socrata can repeat this with other cities or orgs.
Project Overview:
The client for this project is Socrata, the world leader in cloud solutions for open data and data driven governments (http://www.socrata.com/whatissocrata/). They help their clients, such as the City of Davenport, make government data available to the public.
Application Requirements:
1) For this challenge you will need to design a mobile version of the existing citycheckbook: http://citycheckbook.davenporttoday.com/#/.
2) The Mobile HTML5 design and structure should be portable to as many other clients and/or prospects as possible. In other words, when you design for this client, City of Davenport, consider Socrata first but also think about ways to bring in the client's brand, look and feel into the design in a way that Socrata can repeat this with other cities or orgs.
Challenge Requirements:
Screen Size:
- Required: The target device to focus on is iPhone 5 Portrait (retina): 640px width
- The mobile app being built will eventually be for a responsive website where iOS and Android are the target platforms. While iPhone 5 is the target for this challenge, please consider how your design will scale up for larger screen sizes.
- Please feel free to include screens in Landscape if you feel this orientation will work better for specific screens / functionality.
Screens:
Please make sure all pages have the correct flow, use file numbering (00, 01, 02, 03) to capture this. Your submission should include the following screens and functionality:
1) Splash/Loading Screen
- Consistent with City Brand
2) Landing Page
- Socrata Standards used for every city
3) Main Graph Visualization, Alternate Visualization
- Socrata Standards used for every city.
4) “Drill In” Graph and Table
- Use this case to focus on how to represent this on a mobile device Use case details included below. To search for City payroll information, please click here.
5) "Check" Screen
- When you drill all the way down to a payment you see a “check” modal dialog. This shows the actual amount spent on town expenses. This is why they call it the checkbook!
- Screen Idea: Include who spent what and why. Think as a citizen - how would you want your tax dollars spent, and how you would use this information on a mobile device?
- See Check Screen (attached) for more details.
Use Cases:
- Coming from City of Davenport
- According to the Financial Analyst at Davenport City, the most common use case is someone looking up the salary of a city employee.
- The list of salaries is accessed from a link on the landing page, which takes you here: https://transparencyapps.demo.socrata.com/dataset/Davenport-IA-2014-Payroll/5gey-iu6w
- In any case, the "salary search" is a good use case because:
(a) we have some customer data to back it up and
(b) it presents a challenge to render on a mobile device, (the PC view includes search, list sorting, various visualizations (see below)).
(c) Visual See Attached
Project Documentation:
The following documents are attached to this challenge specification to explain what is required for the screen designs:
1. Existing citycheckbook web app - http://citycheckbook.davenporttoday.com/#/
2. Check-Screen.png - Check Screen
Branding and Guidelines:
Davenport The customer likes the easy navigation of this site and would like to see ideas for how this could work on mobile.
This will eventually be a responsive website and iOS and Android are the target platforms.
- Please follow the look-and-feel (colors, fonts, etc.) of the existing citycheckbook web app (http://citycheckbook.davenporttoday.com/#/). Your screen designs for the mobile app should be similar to this. We are open to some creative choices here as long as it isn't too different.
- Use the City of Davenport's current city site as rough style guide (https://www.davenporttoday.com/) for their branding. Keep this in mind - as Socrata adds other cities / clients how can this design be used at other cities? Take current branding and style, and meld into Socrata CheckBook.
- Your design should be for a mobile app screen resolution (iOS and Android). Make sure you create graphics in “shape” format, so when they are resized for retina versions the graphics still look sharp!
- Please make sure to declare your fonts according to the Studio font policies.
- Show some hover states for the UI elements you create (buttons, hyperlinks, dropdowns, etc) to demonstrate how your design concept would work in the actual application.
Target Audience
- The same users of the online application (citizens of the location). Most people have smart phones today so basically anyone living there.
Judging Criteria
- User Experience
- Overall look and feel of the design
- Creativity in the design
- Simplicity and consistency in the design (app should be intuitive to use)
- How well you follow the client's branding / design guidelines.
- Any suggestions, interactions and user flows you recommend (provide any notes or comments for the client)
What to Submit:
Preview JPG/PNG Image File
- 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 ZIP File
- Submit JPG/PNG for your submission files.
Source ZIP File
- 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 complete one round of minor changes to ensure your submission meets the stated requirements of this contest. See more information about Final Fixes.
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.