Challenge Summary
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 - 24HR iOS Design Concepts Challenge" will be run during the next 23 hours. At the end of the challenge we will take the presentation screens 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.
Note: This is our 13th LUX Challenge! No previous experience in a LUX challenge is needed to compete - jump in and give it a try! Make sure to follow the challenge forum and ask questions as things move very fast in a LUX challenge.
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 and Rolling Checkpoint
The challenge will be presented at the Philadelphia Marcus Evans event!
- Challenge Starts: 13 April 2015 15:00 PM EST
- Rolling Checkpoint will start: 14 April 2015 6:00AM EST
- Challenge Ends: 14 April 2015 15:00 EST
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 06:00 AM EST 14 April 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!
LUX Design Problem - Mobile "Augmented Reality Home Remodal Application"
We are looking to design a modern mobile experience for a mobile "Home Remodeling Application". Designs need to be very simple, clean and modern using an iOS "mobile first" design methodology.
Concept Solution:
This mobile design concept is designed for anyone who is looking to plan and improve their interior home decorating. Whether you are redesigning a room, decorating for a holidays or taking on a major home renovation project, our (Dekor) will help, inspire, and manage the pathway to interior design bliss. Be inspired by our inspiration boards, contact interior design professionals for help along the way, find contractors who can do the work for you, find instructional DIY “Do it yourself” tips and tricks, and connect to the products and companies that can help you take your interior design project from idea to reality. “Dekor” is your one stop shop to project manage, collaborate, share, and bring your design ideas to life.
Take a photo of a room in your house. Try different paint colors or wall papers on the wall, try new flooring styles, experiment with different lighting techniques, see what different furniture combinations will look like in your space. Shop from environmentally friendly sustainable materials. Choose from any of our pre-set style categories, or mix and match on your own to create your own unique style. And why stop at just upgrading what your room looks like? This is augmented reality right? Why not take a picture of yourself and see how you look in your new room? Don’t like how you look? No problem….shed a few pounds….add a new hairstyle or outfit. It’s all about having fun when you are envisioning your new design and how you look in it.
User Scenarios:
Jack and Jill just purchased their first home. It is a “fixer upper” and the couple is looking for an application that can help channel their creative ideas and turn them into reality. They come across “Dekor” and quickly discover the rich feature set that the application has to offer.
Jack and Jill’s first project they want to tackle is redesigning their living room. The app allows them to take a picture of their room and jump right in to the interior design process by selecting wall colors, room lighting, and flooring treatments. They create a project folder for their living room design and collect inspirational images from the APP’s style galleries. They’re curious if the furniture that they currently have will fit in with their new design motif and are able to quickly drag and drop images of their furniture in the room to make decisions on if it works with their new design style or not. They are also able to shop for new furniture thru our APP partners and also see what those new furniture options look like in their room.
After they are satisfied with their new design plan they are able to share their creation with their social network for comment and feedback as well as share their design plan with potential contractors that submit bids and estimates for getting their job done. Another great feature of our APP is that at any point during the process Jack and Jill are able to get in contact with an interior design professional that can help them with any questions that they have about the process. So whether you’re a design novice or design GURO….”Dekor” can help you turn your interior design dreams into reality.
LUX Design Problem
Mobile Application = Augmented Reality Home Remodel Application
Application Name(s): Have a name? 1) S3nse 2) Design-Sense 3) Re-InVision 4) Dekor
- Think of a name for your application!
- Pick one or create your own!
Logo Inspiration: "Lego"
- See the attached "logo-inspiration-lego-brick.jpg.zip"
- Please use anything from this shape to create your application logo (refine it, use specific aspects... but your logo should be a solution/idea from this sketch)
Design Style and Inspiration: "Spider Man/Peter Parker"
- Modern clean mobile/application design.
- Make sure to embrace iOS design patterns and interactions.
Color Palette: "Spider Man Influence"
- See attached Color Palettes or come up with your own!
Mobile Storyboards
- Design screens for iPhone 6 (Portrait view, 750x1334px)
- This is a native iOS application (research iOS design patterns and techniques)
- We only need 7 screens plus the presentation screen - so 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
Suggested Screens:
00) Presentation Screen (IMPORTANT!!)
- This is the most important screen - make it look good! (like you are selling your application)
- We need to quickly take your designs and show it to the audience!
- Create a presentation screen of your mobile application!
- Place your designs within an iPhone template! Showcase your submission
- This will be shown to the conference attendee's
���- 1024x768 (4:3 Ratio) - you MUST include it in your submission folder!
01) Application Logo
- See the attached "logo-inspiration.pdf"
- Create a simple logo for your application (this is NOT a logo challenge)
- Something simple and clean that doesn't distract from your screen designs
- Showcase your logo design and how this application will initially look/branding
- Please use anything from this shape to create your application logo (refine it, use specific aspects... but your logo should be a solution/idea from this sketch)
02) Application Dashboard
Dashboard - what is the proper navigation/ease of use for this user?
Key Things:
- Take a photo of your room!
- Place yourself in the photo (augmented reality!)
- Size things in the room! (really size anything)
- 360 view!
- Options to browse objects that might be in a room: lights/furniture
- Options to browse color like paint swatches
- Option to browse projects and saved projects
- Option to create a budget? (and have objects reduce your budget)
- Search products
03) Profile
- User Profile
- Share (social) settings
- Share my projects - get feedback
- Ability to take a photo and save it to the application
04) Navigation Solution
- Please design a navigation solution
- Home
- Search
- Projects/Rooms
- Shop
- Profile
- Settings
- Room Creator
- Knowledge Center/DIY/FAQ
What else is needed here? Look to keep it simple
05) Search
- Directory of home remodeling items: lights, furniture, artwork, room trim
- Option to filter by, location, recommendations, etc
- Option to purchase from the application
- Option to share socially
06) Room Creator (important!)
How does this work for augmented reality?
- Take a photo or your room
- Project placement: Select objects, furniture to drag and add to your photo
- Temperature & lightig of the room (based on lighting what colors make sense)
- Color analyzer
- Drop color into your room
- Save or edit image
07) My Projects
- Gallery of your favorite projects
- Project Budgets (tie-in with purchasing)
- Ability to share with Interior design experts for opinions
- Photos of your house, favorite rooms, colors, styles
08) Unique Feature/Concept
Would be great to see the options you come up with to make this application even more interactive.
- Provide a screen that shows something unique or a concept you think would be great for this application
- Ex. Help/Tutorials or home remodal videos
- Personality test - wizard that lets you pick the type of style you might prefer
- Allow contractors to bid on your project?
- Holiday categories that shows you holiday theme items for you home?
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Judging Criteria
- How well you design the mobile application concept!
- 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.
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!!
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.