Challenge Summary
Welcome to EMS Dashboard Design Concept Challenge! In this challenge, we are looking forward to your help in coming up with the creative designs for the dashboard application for web browsers.
Our client is looking for nice web based dashboards for the EMS system which should not be very static. We need your help to come up with design concepts based on the provided requirements. Good luck and we are looking forward to your submissions!
Round 1
Submit your design for a Checkpoint feedback:
- Submit your initial designs (desktop views) for Checkpoint Feedback.
- Readme.jpg : Provide notes about your submission.
Round 2
Final Design plus Checkpoint feedback:
- Your Final designs for all the required designs with all Checkpoint Feedback implemented.
- Submit few screens for mobile views with resolution (750 x 1334) as per the requirement.
- Readme.jpg : Provide notes about your submission.
Our client has EMS (Energy Management System) and we need your help to design nice dashboards for the system. The system is for buildings that use more electricity such as office buildings and retails stores.
We are looking for you to provide nice design concepts for desktop browsers having resolutions as 1280px width.
Please refer attached design requirement document (Design Requirement.pdf) for more details. Please feel free to ask questions in the forum!
Requirements:
Our client need web-based dashboards to show the status of the system.
- - The dashboard should display the data mentioned in the following data section.
- - We have 2 target audiences as mentioned below and need at least one screen for each audience so you need to design 2 or more screens.
- -- We need responsive design for building administrators so please submit mobile views with resolution (750 x 1334) during final submission phase.
- -- We don't need responsive design for building visitors.
Please check a dashboard introduced in the following video. It is a Japanese video but useful to know our client’s image / thought.
Since it is just an example, do not stick to the dashboard’s image in the video. You can use your own images, graphs and so on for your design.
Data:
The dashboards must display the following data.
A - How much electricity solar panels are generating.
B - How much electricity power storage are discharging or charging.
C - How much electricity bought from electriic power companies is used.
D - How much electricity is being sold to electric companies.
E - How much electricity is being used in the building totally.
E = A - D + B + C
In addition to the data above, the following data should be displayed on the dashboards.
- - Amount of electricity remaining in power storage
- - Weather data and forecast which affect solar power generation
- -- Temperature
- -- Solar irradiance
- -- Cloud cover
- - Amount of Co2 reduced
- - Please add something if you have an idea!
Alert:
When any critical problem happens such as power outage, power generator troubles, warning needs to be displayed on the dashboards until the problem is solved.
Target Audience:
- Building Administrators: Please imagine that you are a building administrator working for the building and need to check how the system is working with your laptop. They do not have a lot of knowledge about electricity and have some knowledge about IT. The dashboard must be able to provide detail information when they would like to know details.
- Building Visitors: Please imagine that you visit a very nice new office building that utilizes this EMS and you see a digital signage in the lobby which displays this dashboard. They do not have a lot of knowledge about electricity and IT. They do not care details much. We would like to give the following impression to the visitors with this dashboard.
- - The building utilizes very intelligent EMS and contributes to energy conservation and environmental protection.
Focus:
- We would like to let the target audiences know "the system is really working here" so the dashboards should not be very static.
Judging Criteria:
- Cleanliness of your graphics and design.
- How well you plan the user experience for the target audiences.
- Your design should be possible to build with web technologies.
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.