Challenge Summary
Welcome to AppXpress – Grant Me A Wish App Design Concepts Challenge!
This challenge is focused on creating design concepts/visual ideas to create an application that grant wishes to sick children.
Grant ME A Wish is a non-profit focused on delivering wishes to sick children thru our network of volunteers. Our goals for this application are: to allow Volunteers, Wish Families, and Staff to manage Wishes given to sick children. The application will serve these 3 groups with information tailored to their role. We want to automate the process and make it easy to use so we can grant more wishes.
Round 1
Submit your design for a Checkpoint feedback:
1. Your initial design concept.
- 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:
1. Your final design concept.
- 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 goal of this challenge is to create an application to allow Volunteers, Wish Families, and Staff to manage Wishes given to sick children. The application will serve these 3 groups with information tailored to their role. We want to automate the process and make it easy to use so we can grant more wishes.
We are looking for the [topcoder] design Community to help us with planning our new "user experience" (UX).
Screen Sizes:
- Mobile Resolution: Design for iPhone 6 Retina Display 750px x 1334px.
- Tablet Resolution: Design for iPad 2 Retina Display 2048px x 1536px.
Make sure you create graphic in 'shape' format, so when we resize graphics will still look sharp! It will be great if you can provide the landscape version.
Supporting Documents:
- Wish Status (Wish Status.docx).
Design Considerations:
- Your design needs to be responsive; please consider that while designing the pages.
- The application needs to be very easy to use and self evident in navigation.
- 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.
- Please keep colors simple and elegant. Nothing too bold or flashy. Same goes for fonts. Overall design guide is simple, elegant, classy, and easy to use.
Main Features:
1. Track a Wish:
- See statuses (Under review, Medical approved, Wish TBD, Wish Finalized, Dates for Wish, Completed).
- Staff would be able to see budget and actual costs by category for each wish (Gifts, Travel, meals, Entertainment, Tickets, Transportation, Medical Staff).
2. Select Volunteers:
- Show list of available Volunteers and their qualifications (Date of last background check, medical certificates, rating from previous wishes, date of last wish, previous roles) and be able to assign them to roles in wishes or ask them via email, text, etc...if they would like to help.
3. Select Wishes:
- Volunteers able to sign in and see current list of Wishes and open roles for them with the associated requirements.
- Able to submit themselves for approval to fill a role on a wish.
4. Wish Families:
- Able to see status of wish.
- For approved wishes, able to see staff and volunteers assigned to wish (Profile).
- Able to see documents awaiting completion (Wish Child Form, Wish Family Form, Wish Information Form, Liability & Publicity Release, Single Parent Form, Absent Parent Form, Medical Form A, Medical From B).
5. Volunteers and Staff can select from a list of donors for products and services to support the wish (Gifts, travel, hotel, meals, etc...).
User Flow:
1. Volunteer:
- Sign in to select one or more roles on one or more wishes.
- See status of wish they are assigned to.
- See next steps by stage they are required to perform (Meet with family, get form A complete, Call Family, Select Wish, get Waiver signed, get Memo of Understanding signed) with check box for completion.
- Submit expenses with picture of receipts by category of expense.
- Able to upload documents, videos and photos to the wish.
- Able to rate the Wish.
- Provide comments, what was good, how to improve for the future, etc.
- Recommend Wish child for Promotional activities.
2. Staff:
- Wish roles assignment:
-- See list of wishes and roles for each wish.
-- See open roles.
-- See available volunteers with qualifications and bio for each of them.
-- Able to assign or request or deny a Volunteer for a role on a Wish via email, text, or social.
-- Able to tell Volunteer if they lack specific qualifications, i.e. current background check.
-- Change Wish Status
-- Able to rate Volunteers.
- Wish Budget:
-- See Budgeted and actual costs for each wish.
-- See companies who could donate money or services to a wish.
-- Able to send a request to a company for donation of money or services for a specific Wish.
- Wish Tracking - Status:
-- See graphical progress of wish with required steps at each stage and status for each requirement (open, in-progress, complete).
-- See alerts for volunteer activity that is past due.
-- Able to send reminders to volunteers.
-- See alerts for over budget costs.
-- Able to upload documents, videos and photos to the wish.
3. Wish Family:
- See status of wish, see staff and volunteers assigned to wish.
- See graphical steps of wish with assigned dates.
- See required documents for completion.
- Able to upload documents, videos and photos to the wish.
- Provide e-signature on documents.
Required Features:
- We currently do not have any formal requirements. We are looking for you to provide design concepts and click-paths. This is the first step in planning our user experience!
- Please read main features, user flow and target audience sections and make sure to capture what the client is looking for.
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:
- Volunteers: These people help to make the Wish happen. They work with the child and family to make sure they are approved and able to do the Wish. They help the child design a Wish that suits their needs. Then they help gather the necessary resources to deliver the Wish.
- Wish Families: The child who is receiving the Wish, their family and medical team.
- Staff - They are responsible for managing the Wish. They approve the Wish itself, the Volunteers and their expenses, and budget for each Wish.
Judging Criteria:
- How well you plan the user experience and capture your ideas visually.
- Cleanliness of your graphics and design.
- Your design should possible to build and make sense as a mobile application.
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.