Apollo iOS Design - Mind The Gap Design Concepts Challenge

Welcome to Apollo iOS Design - Mind The Gap Design Concepts Challenge!

This challenge is focused on creating design concepts/visual ideas to create the look and feel for an iPad app for our Apollo client.

This app will serve as an open-source financial services marketplace that equips customers with the measurement and forecasting tools they need to make smart decisions about what to buy, when to buy and the difference each product makes. 

Round 1

Submit your design for a Checkpoint feedback:
0. Navigation.
1. Establishing your current position.
2. Goal-setting.
3. Savings plans.
4. Buying the services you need.
- 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

Final Design plus any Checkpoint feedback:
0. Navigation.
1. Establishing your current position.
2. Goal-setting.
3. Savings plans.
4. Buying the services you need.
5. Pay it forward - loyalty for the future.
6. Progress tracking.
- 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).

Concept Description:
The goal of this challenge is to design the iPad application for Apollo.

The Mind-the-gap App tracks your financial situation and helps you meet your lifestyle goals, whether it’s paying off your student debt, or funding holidays in your retirement.  The app will bring all your financial data together – bank accounts, loans, mortgages, savings, pensions and asset valuations, and tell you in real time what you’ve got, and if it’s enough for you to hit your goals.  Once your goals are set the app will guide you in developing saving and wealth management strategies and you’ll use it to acquire the financial products you need to implement your plans and track your progress.

We are looking for the [topcoder] design Community to help us with planning our new "user experience" (UX).

Note: Apollo is code name for client.

Branding Guidelines:
- Currency is in British Pounds Sterling (£).
- Font and colors is up to designer.

Design Considerations:
- Please follow current IOS 9 design.

Screen Sizes:
- Tablet Resolution: Design for iPad 2 Retina Display 1536px x 2048px
Make sure you create graphic in 'shape' format, so when we resize graphics will still look sharp! It will be great if you can provide the landscape version.

User Flow:
1. Set savings goals, and weight the importance of each goal.
2. Figure out the gap between what they need to afford their goals and what they have saved.
3. See how each group member is progressing towards their goals.
4. Acquire financial products  needed to implement savings plans and track progress.
5. Track progress again short, mid and long-term goals.

Suggested Screens & Features:
This is a design concepts challenge and those are only suggested screens from us, so please feel free to add anything you think will work good for this app.

0) Navigation:
- How does the user navigate this website?
- Include navigation that you think fits with this website.
- Focus on the priority items and how things should be sized.

1) Establishing your current position:
By the time we’re 18, the average person will have a current account, a savings account, and a credit card, a workplace pension and student debt.  Already, that’s a lot of admin and a variety of different situation to keep on top of.  Fast-forward and add in home ownership, mortgages, investment products, utility bills, and it starts to look like a complicated spread-bet.  The first job Mind-the-gap will do is to pull all the strands of your financial story together into one place and give you your personal balance sheet. What you’ve got in your bank account, the current value of your assets, and your total debt position.

2) Goal-setting:
The app will prompt you to think about what you want to do in the future – short, mid and long term.  You’ll set goals and weight the importance of each.  You’ll tell it what kind of house you want to live in, where you want to be and when you want to retire, or change your earning profile.  All this information will help the app to figure out the gap between what you have now and what you need to afford your goals.  It’s smart enough to factor in inflation and changing economic conditions to tell you what the value of your assets and investments will be in the future.

3) Savings plans:
You can manage your savings through the app – it will talk to your bank account and make sure the standing orders you need are in place to make payments into your savings products against short, medium or long term goals.

4) Buying the services you need:
To meet your goals most efficiently, you’ll likely want to buy investment products and source debt at the best price.  Once you understand the gap you’re trying to fill, you’ll be able to shop from a marketplace of service providers whose products will be suggested to you according to your goals.  This might include investment products and loans or even someone help you with your tax return.  You might choose to develop a profile according to your attitude to risk and ask the market to sell you a bundle of services to meet your goals or ask others what they’re doing and adopt their strategies.  Don’t panic, if you’re new to the financial services market place, use the tutorials available to help you.

5) Pay it forward - loyalty for the future:
Many stores have loyalty schemes or discount offers that you might not want now, but you would benefit you in retirement – or during periods of limited income.  The app will accrue your benefits – anything from air-miles to Nectar points and convert them to options you can exercise in the future, or into alternates, like a pension contribution depending on what the merchant is prepared to offer.

6) Progress tracking:
Your manage-my-gap screen will measure your progress.  It will forecast your retirement age, tell you when debt will be paid off, show you the value of your assets and award you points for hitting goals within given timeframes.  It will share your score-card with your Mind-the-gap community to provide you with competitive incentives.  If you’re saving with others for a group activity, you’ll be able to see how each group member is progressing toward savings goals.

Users of Mind-the-gap can sleep easy in the knowledge that they’re able to provide for the life they want to lead.

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:
- Bank customers.
- Younger generation - familiar with apps and iPads.

Judging Criteria:
- How well your solution gives the best experience for users.
- Creativity and cleanliness of your graphics and design.
- Your solution should follow the highest standards in iOS design.

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.