Challenge Summary
Welcome to True Detective – Companies Graph Visualization - Design Challenge!
Bisnode is a company that turns data into information, and information into insights. They give their customers the ability to make accurate and well informed decisions through intelligent tools.
What they want from YOU is to visualize the relationships in their data. Your goal is to help users see relationships easily in the data. “Who is connected to whom?”, “Is the member of one board related to another company/person?”, “What’s the shortest link between a company and an individual?”, etc.
By helping users to visualise relationships that are not apparent from raw data alone, they can make faster and better informed decisions, helping them to win business that could otherwise be lost.
Round 1
Submit the following for Checkpoint feedback:
- Submit your initial design of your concept.
- 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 any Checkpoint feedback:
- Submit your final design plus apply any checkpoint feedback.
- 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 Details:
Bisnode wish to create an interactive and clickable visualization that can:
- Be offered as a stand-alone web service.
- Be included as a module in selected current products.
Visualization functionality needs to be state of the art and include far more powerful functionality than current competitor solutions.
Design Requirements:
- Visual representation of data:
-- Dynamic representation is paramount.
-- Relationships in data should be brought to the forefront.
- Must be able to be embedded or standalone.
- Should be able to handle node types irrespective of data.
- Customer experience should be first class priority:
-- Natural user interaction.
-- Beautiful visuals.
- The design should be based on this library:
-- https://github.com/anvaka/VivaGraphJS
-- Example of the library in use: http://www.xdiscovery.com/en/graph/1879
Branding Guideline:
- http://pattern-library.apegroup.com/bisnode/
- Username: bisnode
- Password: smartviews
Note: The use of bisnode colours and branding are compulsory but use of the components is not.
Supporting Documents:
- Example Data (bisnode_company_data_data.xlsx).
- What we like, don’t like and wish for (What we like, don’t like and wish for.pptx)
- Examples Showing What Not to Achieve (Examples Showing What Not to Achieve.pptx)
User Scenarios:
Note: These are example use cases. Due to the generic nature of the data that can be displayed this is only a subset of the possible use cases.
Lawyers, Accountant and other professional services:
- Wants to investigate whether the potential client has any relationship to companies or individuals that may pose a conflict of interest, or inappropriate client relationship.
Economist / Analyst / Accountant:
- Wants to investigate whether people in a company has other business relationships with a number of other companies or individuals in other companies. As well as to see “hidden” relationships with key influencers in companies.
Journalist/Researchers:
- When looking at a certain person, which companies are that person active in and what other people are active in that company and related companies? This with a research approach, with the goal to find “patterns” and hidden structures and relationships.
Required Features:
- Please view the attached Examples Showing What Not to Achieve.pptx before you start designing.
- Please read the attached What we like, don’t like and wish for.pptx before you start designing.
- Searching and filtering are not part of the requirements. It is just the graph.
- The center object should have multiple plus-signs. Some menus show relationships, other just plain data (Slide 9 of What we like dont like and wish for.pptx).
- User clicks on a timeline and history for that company or person is shown (Slide 10 of What we like dont like and wish for.pptx).
- User clicks on Board and Board becomes centered (Slide 11 of What we like dont like and wish for.pptx).
- User clicks on a board member and it becomes centered (Slide 12 of What we like dont like and wish for.pptx).
Target Audience:
- Bisnode customers who want to visualise the relationships between people/companies and data on those entities(for example financial records, company registration details, shareholder reports, vehicle details, etc).
Judging Criteria:
- How well you plan the user experience and capture your ideas visually.
- Cleanliness of your graphics and design.
- Creativity and ease-of-use is key to the success as it must be engaging to users.
- Optimal use of space and design to illustrate data insights
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 image files based on Challenge submission requirements stated above.
Source Files
All source files of all graphics created in either Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator and saved as editable.
Final Fixes
As part of the final fixes phase you may be asked to modify your graphics (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.