Hercules X1 Interactive Advertising Template Design Challenge

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Challenge Summary

Welcome to the Hercules X1 Interactive Advertising Template Design Challenge
 
Hercules is experimenting with displaying "full-screen" interactive TV advertising pages that will feature a specific product, brand or program. Essentially an interactive Ad but on your TV.

This challenge if focused on the exploration of design concepts for the interactive "template" that would be used to display the advertised content. How will these "interactive" pages look on the TV and how will the content be displayed?

Round 1

Submit initial interactive TV designs for Checkpoint feedback
Notes.jpg: Any comments about your design for the Client

Round 2

Final interactive TV designs for Checkpoint feedback
Notes.jpg: Any comments about your design for the Client


Hercules is experimenting with displaying "full-screen" interactive TV advertising pages that will feature a specific product, brand or program. Essentially an interactive Ad but on your TV.
We provide you client sketch screen. This can be your starting point  to expand and improve the Interactive TV Advertising Template design

The goal of the interactive ads are:
- Provide a more interactive "user" experience
- The Ad/page will allow a user to select different options to learn more or dive into different areas of the product.
- Dynamic yet simple and modern interactions/design
- Template - think about your layout/grid being reusable with different type of advertising products (Cars, Soft Drinks, Clothes, etc. or TV programming like TV Shows, Movies, News, etc.)  
- We want to create a new Ad Page easily by providing new images, links, content, etc.

Design Guidelines:
- The X1 Interactive TV Screen will be Responsive
- A user will navigate your design by TV Remote
- We will develop your design into various TV sizes.
- Think about the Grid!
- Use client's provided font size in your submission (XFinity-Sans-Fonts.zip)
- All text and graphics in your submissions need to be editable

Required screen sizes:
- HDTV, Blu-ray = 1920px × 1080px
- DVD = 720px × 576px

Theme option you can use this options as starting point:
-- Modern
-- Professional
-- Open to other suggestions!
- Think about how this template works when used with a different brand, products, program content.
- Color: Should adjust/work with the content/brand of the Ad

Hercules X1 Interactive TV Screen Design Requirements
We are looking for you to suggest the best combination/placement of:
- Images
- Image thumbnails
- Video
- Buttons
- Call to actions
- Usage of the background

Video Player Area
- This will be on your TV so it will have Video!!
- No need show playing buttons in this video area - most of this will be controlled by the remote

Important: Content!
- Feel free to use existing brand/content available on the web.
- Watermark the images with a subtle and translucent "FPO" (for placement only)
- Stock art is allowed (any stock source - current documentation rules apply)
- Try multiple brands with your design!
- Remember this is TV - so you have the entire screen, Video, Images, etc.
- This "interactive" advertising!

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
- Potential Customers
- Current Customers

Judging Criteria
- How well you update and improve the "Comcast Escalation" pages
- Cleanliness of your graphics and 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
All Requested challenge Submission Requirements stated above.

Source Files
All source files of the submitted design. Files should be created in Adobe Photoshop and saved as layered PSD.

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.

How To Submit

  • New to Studio? ‌Learn how to compete here
  • Upload your submission in three parts (Learn more here). Your design should be finalized and should contain only a single design concept (do not include multiple designs in a single submission).
  • If your submission wins, your source files must be correct and “Final Fixes” (if applicable) must be completed before payment can be released.
  • You may submit as many times as you'd like during the submission phase, but only the number of files listed above in the Submission Limit that you rank the highest will be considered. You can change the order of your submissions at any time during the submission phase. If you make revisions to your design, please delete submissions you are replacing.

Winner Selection

Submissions are viewable to the client as they are entered into the challenge. Winners are selected by the client and are chosen solely at the client's discretion.

ELIGIBLE EVENTS:

2016 TopCoder(R) Open

Challenge links

Screening Scorecard

Submission format

Your Design Files:

  1. Look for instructions in this challenge regarding what files to provide.
  2. Place your submission files into a "Submission.zip" file.
  3. Place all of your source files into a "Source.zip" file.
  4. Declare your fonts, stock photos, and icons in a "Declaration.txt" file.
  5. Create a JPG preview file.
  6. Place the 4 files you just created into a single zip file. This will be what you upload.

Trouble formatting your submission or want to learn more? ‌Read the FAQ.

Fonts, Stock Photos, and Icons:

All fonts, stock photos, and icons within your design must be declared when you submit. DO NOT include any 3rd party files in your submission or source files. Read about the policy.

Screening:

All submissions are screened for eligibility before the challenge holder picks winners. Don't let your hard work go to waste. Learn more about how to  pass screening.

Challenge links

Questions? ‌Ask in the Challenge Discussion Forums.

Source files

  • Layered PSD files created in Adobe Photoshop or similar
  • AI files created in Adobe Illustrator or similar

You must include all source files with your submission.

Submission limit

5 submissions

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