Challenge Summary
Welcome to Valley Computer - Worker Experience App Mobile Design Concept Challenge.
In this challenge, we are looking for your mobile design concepts to simplify/improve the “global employees” user experience when searching for company policies & procedures, FAQs, Adding/ Voting On New Idea Submissions, Document Retrieval, engaging with human resources, and social networking with other employees. Most company environments have too many sources of information and employees often spend too much time searching for the information they need or having to make multiple inquiries throughout the organization and/or following up on the status of their requests.
Our goal is twofold: to Streamline their experience and provide an engaging environment for employees to quickly find or request the information they are seeking. We want to make employees feel like they are valued and provide a place that fosters communication.
In the end, we are looking for an easy to use app, focused on a great user experience. Think of modern UX design and how cool this worker experience system could look and work.
Valley Computer is the codename of the challenge
We want to showcase how easy it is to engage the [topcoder] design studio community and demonstrate how well you can take ideas and turn them into great design and user experience concepts! Cash in on this great opportunity to prove your design skills and get a great portfolio piece in the process. Best of luck to you all!
Round 1
Submit your initial screens for Checkpoint feedback
1) Splash Screen
2) Knowledge
3) Collaborative FAQs
4) Create an HR Case
Although we encourage you to submit all the required screens mentioned in the spec, to get feedback/input from client regarding your ideas and concept.
Feel free to add any other additional screens which are necessary to explain your concept.
Notes.jpg: 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 page with all checkpoint feedback implemented.
Feel free to add any other additional screens which are necessary to explain your concept and flow
Notes.jpg: Any comments about your design for the Client
Make sure all pages have correct flow! Use correct file numbering. (00, 01, 02, 03)
The purpose of this challenge is to come up with the initial design directions for this mobile based application that will help a global employees easily find the answers they are searching for as it relates to their experience working for the company.
More About Worker Experience:
if you have ever been an employees of company, you have most likely experienced the challenge of finding the information you are seeking. Whether it is having to navigate to multiple intranet sites looking for the policies and procedures to follow, going to network drives to find a cryptically titled document, calling or emailing a co-worker to inquire about their experience, or calling or sending an email to an HR helpdesk, the process generally requires a multi-step decision tree before the answer you are seeking is found. And most often, an email request is sent to HR for help, waiting patiently to know if the email was read or assigned to someone who is investigating your issue.
Through this application, we are looking to make this process simple and effective, allowing employees to easily find the information they are looking for in an easy to use mobile app. We want the experience to be intuitive, fun to use, and provide them a reason to keep coming back and using the app - ultimately allow the employees to be more productive when at work or at home.
Design Considerations:
- We are looking for fresh, innovative and modern design concepts..
- Note that these employees will be a part of a corporate and not focusing on employees at the "Valley Computer" (client), so think corporate in your designs!!
- Focus on the design being a great mobile experience - the application should be designed for iPhone
- Give importance to the overall layout and think on how a user would interact with the content on the page.
- Please feel free to explore your ideas on designing the app, and do some research if necessary to come up with a great UX.
Required Screens:
The main goal of this challenge is to take the below given requirements and design an easy to use app and have great user experience (UX)!
1)Splash Screen (basically a dashboard of everything you would need access to )
- User Landing Page
- Company news
- Quick Link
- Cases and status
--- These would be employee requests - like a vacation/holiday request - status could be requested, approved, declined for example. Maybe a new hardware request like a laptop, could be annual and quarterly reviews, Quarterly review pending, for example. You can add dummy text (lorem ipsum) as addition if needed.
- Logo is not required for now, but you can use a placeholder if you need to show one in your design.
- Feel free to explore your ideas how the user will see the welcome screen.
2) Knowledge
- Quick Links to the most searched documents (e.g. employees handbook, vacation policy, travel policy, training)?
- Filters to quickly see documents by policy category (e.g. time off, payroll, benefits)?
- Search for documents?
- Provide visual images for favorite status, or document relevance to search?
- What else does this app need?
3) Collaboration/FAQs:
- Search (plain text search - simple)
- How do I collaborate with other groups and employes in the company?
- Find employees and message them?
- Shootouts to awesome employees?
- Quickly find Groups I belong to and have ability to see the threads on the topics?
- Search for topics and see if other colleagues have gotten answers I am looking for?
- What else does this app need?
4) Create an HR Case:
- How do I open a new case?
- Are there dropdowns for common topics during entry (e.g. payroll, benefits, grievance) during input? or any other style for mobile that will be easier to use on accessing this section?
- Status of prior submissions - who is my case assigned to, when is it expected to be resolved, is it past due?
5) Ideation:
- Dashboard of new ideas submitted, quick links? Does it have a status from approvers (e.g. pending review, accepted, declined?
- Ability to vote up or down ideas, add comments?
- Submit a new idea to the company, a group or colleague?
- Search for existing ideas?
- We need your ideas for the best experience about this section
6) Store:
- Access to company store items
- Store Point balance for purchasing
- Items available?
Branding Guidelines:
- Please use the branding guidelines as follows:
- Colors:
Blue (C92 M34 Y0 K0) (RGB 0-133-195) / Hex #0085C3
Pantone Cool Gray 5 (C15 M9 Y8 K22) (RGB 170-170-170) / Hex #AAAAAA
PMS CG11 (C48 M36 Y24 K66) (85% K is also acceptable) RGB 68-68-68 / Hex #444444
- Fonts: Open to the designer
- Size:
Design screens for iPhone 5 portrait display (640 x 1136)
Assume this is native iOS application
Target Audience
- Employees across the global enterprise
Judging Criteria
- How well you design the provided design challenge
- Cleanliness of your graphics and design.
- Design and User Experience.
Submission & Source Files
Preview Image
Create your preview image as one (1) 1024x1024 JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode at 72dpi and place a screenshot of your submission within it.
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
As part of the final fixes phase you may be asked to modify your graphics, images (sizes or colors) or modify overall colors.
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.