Challenge Summary
Welcome to the AppXpress iOS Design - Communi Concept Design Challenge!
We’re excited to involve our talented community to help us develop a cool concept into a modern tablet application for college students who desire to sell or share their belongings.
We provide you with the application concepts and the user flow for you to get creative with! We look forward to see design concepts on how this application will work, considering the best practices for an easy experience to the user considering the target audience.
Best of luck.
Round 1
Submit your design for a Checkpoint feedback (iPhone screens only)
1. Home
2. Details View
4. Post New Item
- 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
Submit your design for a Checkpoint feedback (iPhone and iPad screens)
1. Home
2. Details View
3. Category View
4. Post New Item
- 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 main goal of this challenge is to come up with design concept for a genuine tablet application for college students. This application will allow them to create a marketplace of items that they can sell or share very easily with the community or anyone connected to this network.
You’re provided with simple user stories and features we want to see. You must analyze this and propose a modern design that shows how the application work. Ideas are always welcomed as long as they help to understand this process and make the application easy to use.
Branding Guidelines
- Colors are open to suggestions.
- There’s no logo. Use a good text combination for the app name or just a placeholder.
Design Concepts Goals
- Read the user story and decide what should the priority features be.
- Think simple but effective solutions! Consider the target audience, it shouldn’t be boring, instead it should be engaging and modern.
- Design should flow well from one page to the other, very clean in the transition and content layout, not too cluttered. It should be inviting and welcoming for college students.
- Avoid "childish" or "old-fashioned" looks. Think of apps like Instagram and Poshmark.
- There shouldn’t be any tabs in the design at the bottom of the app.
Screen Sizes
- iPhone: 750px x 1334px.
- iPad: 2048px x 1536px.
- Design the same for iPhone/iPad version. You may consider suggesting ideas for iPad version since there’s more space, however it’s not mandatory.
- Design potrait orientation only.
- Make sure you create graphic in 'shape' format, so when resize for retina versions, graphic still look sharp! It will be great if you can provide the landscape version.
User Flow
1. The user can see items in the feed and the select one.
2. Once a user selects an item, they should see a detailed page of the item where they can see the item name, details, pictures, item category, seller rating, price and buy or borrow the item.
3. The user should be able to easily post a new item.
Features and Suggested Screens
- In a concept design challenge we would like you to suggest features/screens that this app should incorporate.
- Feel free to reorganize screens or split if necessary. It’s your show, run it!
1. Home
- Home Feed of all items available (one feed of "buy" and one feed of "borrow").
- The home feed should show 4 items at a time (as a cluster). These four items should all be of the same category. The feed should scroll up and down like Instagram.
- You should be able to click from one feed to the other feed easily (not using tabs at the bottom).
- Only design one page for this (because both should look the exact same).
- Show how the user navigates this application. Include a navigation that you think fits with these requirements.
2. Details View
- User should be able to see an individual page with details about a previously selected product.
- There should be an “user-review” information about the owner of the product with his/her reputation (5 stars system? comments? - help us with a suggestion) and also a way to access this.
- The should see name of item, description text, several pictures and an action button, buy or borrow depending on the type of availability.
- After clicking the action button, a confirmation screen should appear to make sure the user is sure to continue with the action with two buttons, accept/yes cancel/no, if accept/yes then another message with further instructions for the exchange will be displayed.
3. Category View
- User should be able to narrow down to a category of items to view.
- When viewing the categories, the user should be able to turn those categories "on" or "off" (maybe include the switch on the right side of the category table). This is so that only the chosen categories show up in the home feed.
4. Post New Item
- User should be able to post an item.
- This should be a button (maybe top right), not a tab at the bottom.
- Show the flow of publishing an item. It should be split into a couple screens (because there will be a considerable amount of information required). Once the basic information is input on one screen, the user would click "next" to move on to the next step (next screen) to enter the rest of the info. The information that is important to capture:
-- Name of item
-- Picture of item
-- Description of item
- The category the item would fall under
-- The price for the item
-- Whether the item is for sell, for share, or for both
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
- College students will be the only users of the app.
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.
- Creativity and ease-of-use is key to the success as it must be engaging to users.
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.