Challenge Summary
Welcome to the AppXpress - Intuitive Opportunity Pillars Design Challenge!
Our client has a very cool Opportunity process in Salesforce.com. Opportunity Stage is key and heavily utilized within the organization. They like the idea of listing the Stages of an Opportunity side-by-side in a pillar or column design. This will resonate with their internal Sales team and keep them focused on their core principles.
This challenge is going to be single round, so jump in now and start showing us your creative ideas.
Challenge Description:
The goal of this challenge is to allow users to see the 5 pillars of the Sales process for a current customer. These pillars will include recommended steps to complete each pillar to complete a sale.
We are looking for the [topcoder] design Community to help us with planning our new "user experience" (UX).
Branding Guidelines:
For the sake of the best visualization there are no branding requirements.
Supporting Documents:
- Pillars content (Opportunity Pillar Design.png).
Design Focus:
We will be asking you to come up with the a design which is:
- Attractive for the target audience.
- This design must allow for easy readability and be dynamic in allowing future enhancements.
- 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:
- To be able to view Opportunity Stages.
- To be able to view recommended Activities within each Stage.
- To show if an Activity has been completed with a checkmark next to it.
- To show the number of activities that has been completed.
User Flow:
- View the Pillars on the Opportunity.
- Create activity that drives the Opportunity forward.
- See the Stage Indicator reflect things that have been done on an Opportunity.
Design Requirements:
1) Intuitive Opportunity Pillars:
Please refer to Opportunity Pillar Design.png
- At the top of each Pillar, name the Stage of Opportunity.
- Under each Pillar, display the required activities that should be completed within each Stage to complete a Sale.
- Each activity needs to display a red X or green check if the Activity has not been completed for this Opportunity.
- Some activities will count the number of times each Activity was completed against an Opportunity, which will display in parenthesis next to the Activity
- Each pillar could have a different number of activities related to it, but the size of the design must be consistent.
We would like to have some great ideas of how to enhance this design to make it much more eye-popping and user friendly.
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 audience:
- Client Sales users of Salesforce.
Judging Criteria:
- Have you used typography in a meaningful way?
- Cleanliness and consistency of your graphics and icon designs.
- Quality of your icons.
- Simplicity.
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.