Challenge Summary
Welcome to the AppXpress – Crowd Collaboration Android Application Design Challenge!
We bring an exciting challenge open to creativity where you can offer ideas through concepts for solving the problem of catching user’s attention with a modern look and feel plus easy experience.
We are providing you with the application concepts, design specifications and the user flow for you to get creative with! We are looking 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 lucks!
Round 1
Submit your design for a Checkpoint feedback
1. Ideas Feed (Tablet and Phone views)
2. Ideas Details (Tablet and Phone views)
3. Post Idea (Phone view only)
- 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 Checkpoint feedback (Table and Mobile views)
1. Ideas Feed
2. Ideas Details
3. Post Idea
4. Following
5. Notifications
- 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)
The goal of this challenge is to create design concepts for a native Android Micro-social Crowdsolving platform utilizing “burst” (3 day) collaboration to give employees in an enterprise a strong voice in shaping the future of the company and solving big problems.
This application must be designed following the latest Android Material design principles, for both phones and tablets. We look forward to see solutions around effectivity and simplicity of the UI, we really need to catch user’s attention at the same time being very efficient.
You’re provided with 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
- Our colors preferences lean to medium tone blues and white. Also orange, green and dark blue for highlights.
- Use placeholder for logo if you’re adding any.
- Apply Android Material design principles. It should look very modern.
Design Concepts Goals
- Read the user story and decide what should the priority features be.
- Designs should be professional, simple, elegant and still cover the entire functionality.
- Designs should really take into account simplicity and accessibility.
- We don't want to see anything that doesn't leverage Android Material Design Principles.
- We don't want to see anything that is too far over on the "Corporate" look and feel.
Screen Sizes
- Tablet: 1536px x 2048px (portrait orientation only).
- Phone: 768px x 1280px (portrait orientation only).
- Make sure you create graphic in 'shape' format, so when resize for retina versions, graphic still look sharp!
Main Features
1. Ask a question to the crowd, the question can be textual, or presented in a video 30s or less video.
2. Users join a session by invitation.
3. Sessions run for 1-3 days.
4. Sessions can be anonymous.
5. Users post a response (normally an idea/solution/suggestion) which is seen by everyone
6. Users vote up (or down) and comment on the responses.
7. Users can view the ideas based on popularity, most recently entered, etc.
8. Users may be part of many sessions, some may be ongoing, some not yet started, some finished.
9. Any user can access a "Launch Event" feature to create and launch their own event to solve a problem they're faced with. They can create a Selfie video, decide who to invite, enter their Challenge Question, and then the email invites will be sent.
10. Employees can use the "Share event" link to encourage employees from other divisions to participate in any event.
User Flow
Expected users:
1. Executive - in his 50's - very busy with a small attention span to learn something new. Not familiar with modern UI design (e.g. trends in the last 1-2 years). Doesn't use Mobile for work other than checking email and texting. If he can't figure out how to use the App in 30 seconds, he's out.
2. Digital Native individual contributor in his late 20s. Expects modern UI design in everything he uses. Experience needs to be clean and familiar. First impressions are everything - and decides if he likes POPin in 15 seconds.
Note: there are two user type, however, they all have access to the same features. No need to display two user roles in your screens.
Scenario:
1. A Vice President poses a big important problem he wants employees to solve, such as “How can we work more collaboratively across all of our locations?”
2. In a matter of 2 days, the employees share ideas, and vote and comment on each others’ ideas.
3. The top ideas bubble to the top and then after the session, actions occur.
4. After the event is over, the employee can choose to Launch their own event for a topic they're passionate about.
Customer Experience Guidelines and References
- Download and digest DesignSpecifications.docx.
- Make sure to pay close attention. This rich document will teach you by experience how to use this application, to envision a better workflow and apply it to your solution.
- It contains visual references and features you will find helpful for designing a solution for this design challenge.
- DO NOT COPY anything from external references like Pinterest, Google Plus, etc. This is just inspiration.
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. Ideas Feed
- User sees a dashboard screen with recent ideas on any subscribed event and navigation to the sections.
- User should be able to sort/filter items.
- User should be able to post events (sessions where add ideas are discussed/rated) by introducing text or video recording (30s top). Usually this is a question posted.
2. Idea Details
- Display the details of any selected idea.
- User should be able to vote/rate an idea.
- We don't want to see anything that requires a beautiful image for each idea that is shared by the employee or a picture of each employee. Same in the idas feed.
3. Post Idea
- An idea should have title and description, NO image, simple
4. Following
- This is a favorites section, where the user keeps track of the ideas he likes the most.
- Ideas should be presented in a consistent way.
- For this, ideas should be able to be added/hooked to this list.
5. Notifications
- What kind of notifications could the user receive? someone voted my idea? new idea has been posted? etc.
Target User
- Employees who work for large, US based Fortune 500 companies, in industries such as IT, Healthcare, Analytics, Financial Services, Consumer Goods, Utilities, 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.
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.