Challenge Summary
Welcome to the GE - Power Generation Services Design Concepts Challenge! GE Power Generation Services is the world leader in energy services within the oil, natural gas, and renewable energy sources. The sales teams within GE PGS leverages Salesforce (SFDC) as a customer relationship tool from inquiry to order.
We are looking to add a few new screens to our SFDC experience to make it easier for the sales team to find answers and materials as well as monitor specific information, opportunities, customers and goals. A new and improved dashboard experience.
The experience needs to be responsive across desktop and mobile (phone) and be clean, modern and easy to use and intuitive.
We are looking for your best user interface designs and concepts to wow the client with. Have fun!
Round 1
Submit your designs for a Checkpoint feedback:
1. My Dashboard (Desktop)
2. Help Landing Page (Desktop)
- 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 Designs plus any Checkpoint feedback:
1. My Dashboard (Desktop AND Mobile)
2. Help Landing Page (Desktop AND Mobile)
- 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).
Design Description:
The goal of this challenge is to design a Homepage and a My Dashboard screen that allows Managers and Leadership to quickly find answers and information. User will want to monitor and track their opportunities, customers and goals.
We are looking for a really clean, modern and highly intuitive user experience and overall great user interface design. We are focusing on desktop and mobile designs, with the mobile version being a high priority.
The user needs to be able to interact with these screens on a mobile device just as easily and intuitively as on the desktop version. really think about the overall mobile experience and design for that specific screen size. DO NOT just resize the desktop version and make it smaller. Make sure you buttons, fonts and information are tappable and readable on a smaller device.
Screen Sizes:
- Desktop: 1280px width (height can expand to fit content)
- Phone: 640px width (height can expand to fit content)
Make sure you create graphic in 'shape' format, so when we resize graphics will still look sharp!
Branding Guidelines:
- Branding Guidelines (GE Branding.zip).
- This document includes current system screenshots and suggested screens and improvements (UX Screenshots.pptx).
Design Goals:
- The design should follow GE branding guidelines.
- We are looking for the best UI/UX we can achieve.
- Clean, modern, intuitive and easy to use designs and UI
- Screens should be HIGHLY functional and easy to use on mobile devices. Make sure you are designing this appropriately and not just transferring the desktop design over and making them smaller.
Required Functionality:
1. My Dashboard (Desktop and Mobile):
Please refer to slides 1-5 in UX Screenshots.pptx
- Personalized dashboards: Customer/account management, etc.
- “My GE Day” Concept: A quick glance/ overview of what the person needs to accomplish today and/ or monitor:
-- List of My Opportunities and their statuses. Filterable by status.
-- Show, at a high level, how many opportunities are closed, open, etc. Needs the ability to see what those specific opportunities are.
-- Goals and progress. For example: “I’m suppose to close $200 million this year. What’s my percentage for completing that?” (20%, 30%, etc.). How can you show this information in graph, infographic, etc.
- User’s customers and suggested selling based on that customer’s existing products.
2. Help landing page (Desktop and Mobile):
Please refer to slide 6 in UX Screenshots.pptx
- A one stop shop, or landing page, where users can go to find relevant information such as training and organized content.
- Ideally content will be organized by role i.e., Sales Managers, Commercial Managers, Leadership, etc.
-- Include quick links to training materials and e-learning modules, relevant documentation such release notes and other content.
- Keyword search capability would help our users find what they are looking for when accessing the landing page. Think about smart search and/ or contextual search to produces results as the user is typing.
- Embedding a chatter support community in this area would also help users post questions for real time answers.
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.
- Clean, modern and easy to use UI design
Target Audience:
- Sales Managers at GE.
Judging Criteria:
- How well you plan the user experience and capture your ideas visually.
- Cleanliness of your graphics and design.
- Mobile designs and experiences
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.