Challenge Summary
Welcome to the Sigma - Mobile Application Design Concepts Challenge!
A leading SaaS Company, codenamed Sigma, is seeking to improve its retention of top talent and help employees be more in control of their personal career journey. Sigma is growing quickly and has a young, dynamic workforce, many of which work remotely, or on-the-go. The core Sigma employee values are Achievement, Innovation and Team. The growth rate also means that many of the employees have a very short tenure.
Employees have raised concerns that career development discussions are too regimented within current HR systems, and they often find it hard to have long-term discussions with their line managers. Remote/Field-based work can make employees feel isolated and they lack an i support network of people that can empathise with them on both a career and personal/ perspective.
Being a SaaS Company, employees are heavy users of mobile technology and the App must be Consumer-grade with an innovative and intuitive UI/UX to drive adoption.
We currently do not have any formal requirements. We are looking for you to provide design concepts and click-paths. This is the first step in planning our mobile user experience!
In this contest we are looking for DESIGN CONCEPTS on how this Mobile Application could work. What should the user see and experience when using the application?
Round 1
Submit your design for a Checkpoint feedback:
0. Navigation.
1. Login page.
2. Profile table.
3. Core Skills page.
4. Social/cultural interests & location Page.
- If you have time - please provide us with a click map for your design.
- Readme.jpg : Provide notes about your submission.
- Make sure all pages have correct flow! Use correct file numbering. (00, 01, 02, 03).
Round 2
Final Design plus Checkpoint feedback:
0. Navigation.
1. Login page.
2. Profile table.
3. Core Skills page.
4. Social/cultural interests & location Page.
5. List of appropriate “Ikenga”.
- If you have time - please provide us with a click map for your design.
- Readme.jpg : Provide notes about your submission.
- Make sure all pages have correct flow! Use correct file numbering. (00, 01, 02, 03).
Challenge Description:
The goal of this challenge is to create “Ikenga” network to help employees identify development opportunities and potential career paths by connecting them with appropriate “Ikenga” within the organization, Ikenga means god of achievement and its just a name used by the client.
We are looking for the [topcoder] design Community to help us with planning our new "user experience" (UX).
Note: Sigma is a codename for the client.
Branding Guidelines:
For the sake of the best design there are no branding requirements for this challenge, the app should have the engaging qualities of a consumer app rather than a boring business app.
Design Concept Goals:
- How should this mobile application look?
- How quickly the user can find what he wants?
- The application should be easy to use.
- Think simple but effective solutions! Have fun creating this - let us know how you think it should work!
- We want this to be MODERN application design!
Design Guidelines:
- Your solution needs to use a Responsive Design Solution when viewed on Portrait and Landscape views of Mobile device. Users will use both smartphone and tablet devices.
- Show your design solution on Portrait View. Use this screen size (750px x 1334px).
- Feel free to suggest any tools/function that can bring good User Experience for this Mobile Application.
Make sure you create graphic in 'vector' format, so when resize for retina versions, graphic still look sharp! It will be great if you can provide the landscape version.
Main Features:
- Individual skills profile is sync’d from HR system. Contains employee’s photo, years of service, core skills and experience.
- Identify skills/competencies that employee would like to develop (these can be pooled to identify HR investment areas).
- Social/Cultural interests.
- List of appropriate “Ikenga” that fit the skills/needs and social/cultural profile.
- “Ikenga” profile and experience, plus request to connect.
Suggested Screens:
- We would like you to suggest features/screens that this app should incorporate and all pages are editable for the owner and HR employee.
0) Navigation:
- How does the user navigate this application?
- Include navigation that you think fits with this application
- Focus on the priority items and how things should be sized
1) Login Page
- A user will be able to enter username, password have a Login button.
- Show error validation style.
- We also need a Forgot Password link.
2) Profile Table
This is a view only page and sync'd from HR system. This page should show the following information:
- Years of Company service.
- Key roles (Company and prior employment).
- Core skills (e.g. Business Development, Selling, Team Management, Marketing, Operations, HR, Finance, Technical, Project Management, Product Expertise, International).
- Free text box to identify any special skills (e.g. specific product/technical/vertical experience).
3) Core Skills page:
From the core skills:
- Identify up to 5 areas of focus for next 24 months – allocate 100 points across max 5 skill areas and display as pie chart.
- Short statement of what employee wants to achieve (with auto-tagging).
4) Social/cultural interests & location Page:
Examples:
- Multi-pick lists for Sports, Social {Film/Theatre, Food, Music, Homemaking, Foundation, Gardening, Nature, Religion, Books, Fitness etc}).
- Pick 5 words that best describe personality.
- User will be able to enter his location, where he lives.
5) List of appropriate “Ikenga”:
- Ikenga is the name for the people that will provide support, and it means god of achievement.
- We are open for your suggestions to name those advisors with a good appropriate name other than Ikenga. Note: the term Buddies and Mentors are already in use within Sigma and have specific connotations -
please do not use these terms.
- Show (picture, name, job title, location).
- Click on picture to expand profile and experience (e.g. number of people “helped”, core skills and experience, interests).
- Connection request with personal message describing key needs.
Important:
- Keep things consistent. This means all graphic styles should work together.
- All of the graphics should have a similar feel and general aesthetic appearance
Target User:
- All internal Ikenga employees.
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.
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.