Challenge Summary
Welcome to Citrix Partner - Renewal Dashboard and Client List Design Challenge!
This challenge purpose is to update the look, feel and user experience of “Citrix Partner - Renewal Dashboard and Client List”.
At the end of challenge, we’re expecting a fresh design, good looking design and some ideas to re-design our Citrix Dashboard and Client List interface so it can enhance user experience.
Round 1
Submit your design for a Checkpoint feedback:
1. Your initial design.
- 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:
1. Your final design.
- 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).
Challenge Description:
The current look and feel of Dashboard is outdated and not user friendly, the goal of this challenge is to provide a fresh look and better user experience for our Citrix client.
You are strongly recommended to take a look at the actual application. We included screenshots so you can see what we currently have and think of ideas and solutions to improve it.
This tool we are designing here is a license renewal tool at the corporate level for clients, it displays license renewal opportunities on a user specific basis.
We are looking for the [topcoder] design Community to help us with planning our new "user experience" (UX). Community members should feel free to suggest other forms of interaction and UX improvements for this project.
Branding Guidelines:
- Brand Guidelines: citrix-brand-guide-4.2.pdf.
- Brand Graphics: citrix-x-graphic-rgb.
- Font: citrix-sans.
- Logos: citrix-logo.
- Iconography usage: icons.pptx.
- All can be found in google drive folder:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2_ix3Ct7d5Yc0RUdHhOOXpfMnc
Target devices:
- Desktop: Width of 1280px and height as required.
Supporting Documents:
- Screenshots of existing Dashboard (Screenshots.zip).
Challenge Goals:
- Design the Dashboard.
- Enhance search features.
- Add filtering and sorting.
- Enhance the user experience.
- Enhance look and feel.
Design Considerations:
- Your design needs to consider responsive; please consider that while designing the pages.
- Focus on the user experience of each page and make sure each page has a complete flow.
- Give importance to the overall layout and think about how a user would interact with the content on the page.
- Show all the screens and provide a user flow/click-path, so we can see how the interactions fit together in the application.
Required Screens:
1. Dashboard:
- At the top show gadgets for:
-- Total number of clients.
-- Total Number of clients approaching renewal date.
-- Total number of client past expiration date.
- Show recently viewed clients.
- Show clients approaching renewal date.
- Show clients past expiration date.
- The ability to search for clients by:
-- Customer name.
-- Customer org ID.
-- Contact phone.
-- Advisor contact assigned.
-- Closest expiration date.
-- Renewal Price.
-- Reseller commission.
-- List price.
- Please suggest to us what else you think is a good feature to include in dashboard.
2. Search Results Page:
- Here please show a list/table for:
-- Customer name.
-- Customer org ID.
-- Contact phone.
-- Advisor contact assigned.
-- Closest expiration date.
-- Renewal Price.
-- Reseller commission.
-- List price.
-- Certificates.
- We need the ability to filter the table.
- We need sorting ability.
- We need better pagination abilities:
-- View 5,10,25 and All.
-- View First, Previous, Page Numbers (1,2,3,4,5,etc.), Next and Last.
-- Got to page.
3. What Else?
- Please share with us what you think can help us bring the idea more to live.
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:
- Citrix Resellers/Partners.
Judging Criteria:
- Is the design styled to be appealing and desirable?
- Does the design convey the function and use unambiguously and intuitively
- Does it clearly convey what the app is supposed to let you achieve / what problem it is designed to solve.
- Does the design perform the function it was designed?
- Is the design easy to use and understand?
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.