Challenge Summary
Welcome to another LUX Challenge! The LUX is a "Live User Experience" Design Challenge that we like to run as a fast design challenge to get quick exploration and new concepts on a user experience problem.
The "LUX - Trash Disposal Management Mobile App Design Concepts Challenge" will run during the next 48 hours. At the end of the challenge, we will take your presentation screens and share your collective creative talent with our live CMO audience in Austin Texas!
The LUX Challenge Series provides you with an opportunity to show digital leaders from some of the largest brands in the world just how good your user interface and user experience (UI/UX) design skills are. LUX challenges are fast, fun, and have more chances for you to capture prize money.
Challenge Details
The goal of this challenge is to take the provided design problem, analyze the user experience and provide design concepts and visual ideas on how the application might look and work.
Challenge Timeline and Rolling Checkpoint
- Challenge Starts: 08:00 AM EDT 04/16/16
- Rolling Checkpoint will start: 08:00 AM EDT 04/17/16
- Challenge Ends: 08:00 AM EDT 04/18/16
We are offering 8 Placements! Plus $50 Rolling Checkpoint prizes!
1) $1800
2) $1500
3) $1000
4) $750
5) $500
6) $250
7) $150
8) $100
Rolling Checkpoint Review ($50*)
Adam Morehead (adroc) will provide a design review if you submit your initial designs by (07:00 AM EDT 04/17/16)
- Within the hour, we will provide any design feedback/guidance
- You must watch the forum for your feedback!
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Design Problem
Create the visual design for an iOS iPhone app that will help homeowners manage their trash/garbage disposal. We are looking to bring the simplicity of an "uber" like experience to managing residential trash pickup and removal. We would like to conceptualize a mobile application where a homeowner would have more insight into their trash removal and recycling efforts.
Help our app user to be more efficient with disposing and recycle their garbage/trash and balance their daily activity with environmental goals alongside their budgetary ones.
Design Consideration
- On-demand trash pickup
- Think about the simplicity of Uber for Trash collection (what would be important?)
- Think about designing an application provides a user insight into their environmental impact.
- A great experience for a user to manage their garbage/trash disposal (this can include daily, weekly or monthly needs)
- Explore MODERN concepts of residential waste management and how a simple application/service could improve the disposing of waste in an environmentally-friendly way.
Some example features to think about
- Choose the best Trash/Garbage Schedule options? (so options/descriptions on the regular trash pickup/route)
- Map of Trash pickup routes, current route status and locations
- Service offers (Additional features related to trash disposal such as dumpster rental, pickup service, recycling, medical waste etc?).
- Scheduling Trash, Recycling or Hazardous waste pick-up times
- Environmental impact through green education and gamification techniques
- Complaints and Customer Support
Application Scenarios
1. just had a birthday party and need trash picked up before my usual scheduled day
2. I am running late putting my trash out for collection and would like to know when they will arrive
3. I am renovating/demolition at my house and need a dumpster for construction debris
4. On vacation - discontinue pick up for 2 weeks
5. Schedule Moving - pick up 2 times a week for next 2 weeks, then discontinue and start collecting at my new address
6. Hazardous waste pickup - paint, oils etc…
- What makes sense? What would be helpful to you?
LUX Challenge Requirements
Application Name: Create a name for your application.
(eg: GAR, Enviro, QPickUP, MDisposal = something simple!)
Color Palette
The musician Prince!
- Use Prince's Album artwork, style influence our color palette.
Logo Inspiration
Play-Doh
- Use the shape of the Play-Doh cups/cans or logo shapes to influence your application logo
- Keep it simple!
Key Feature
Our audience thinks that "Scheduling Trash, Recycling or Hazardous waste pick-up times" should be a key feature of the application.
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Mobile Storyboards
- Design screens for iPhone 6 (Portrait view, 750x1334px)
- This is a native iOS application
- We only need 7 screens plus a presentation screen - so pick/design what you think will "showcase" this application.
- In these LUX challenges the "Concepts", you propose really help the presentation
Things to think about (as a user)
- When I first open the application what should I see? Why am I using this application?
- Think about the simplicity of apps and services like Uber, Nest, Lyft etc.
- What is the priority actions or items I need to interact with
- What type of items would I see each time I open the application?
- What are the navigation items (primary and secondary)?
- Notification, alerts and push tools?
- Simplicity for doing payment and other services?
Suggested Screens
- These as suggestions - you can modify as needed
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0) Application Logo
- Create a simple logo for your application
- Something simple and clean that does not distract from your application designs
- See logo inspiration
1) Presentation Screen - 1920x1080 (16:9 Ratio)
- In a LUX challenge, this screen is very important so make it look good!
- If you were walking into a meeting and needed to sell your idea - use this screen to showcase your concept.
- DO NOT put extra text on this screen - use it to showcase your application!
2) Dashboard/Home (Key Screen)
- This becomes a priority screen for this type of application. What are the key things that should be displayed?
- Map services that show trash pick up truck vehicles, location and time to service
- The user should be able to view their trash management information, including their trash status (Waiting/Picked Up/Delivery/Recycle/etc)
- Timer or notification that show count down before their trash should get picked up.
- Think about how this page should be presented and the key navigation items, features and user actions.
- Ability to quickly notify the service or plan for "away"
- Stats on recycling and environment impact
- Show history of user interactions, suggestions for reports that might be of interest to the user based on their latest activity, etc?
3) Schedule
- User will have the ability to schedule their regular/subscribe trash pick up
- Set of pick up schedule template that user can choose directly from the app.
- Custom Pick Up schedule creation :
-- Option to set daily, weekly, monthly or custom periodic trash pickup schedule
-- Options to select their trash size and type of trash.
-- Provide form area to enter general information about user (person information, address, etc)
-- Options to select available/near by vendor to pick up user trash.
- Provide a calculation of how much the cost for their selected regular trash pickup schedule and provide payment options (via CC/paypal/cash and pay monthly/yearly)
4) Instant Pick Up/Service Request
- Additional service that the application offers outside regular trash pickup schedule.
- This feature will be useful if user needs to pick up trash for an event/occasion that needs instant trash pick up immediately (birthday party, building demolition, etc)
- User will need to select the type of vehicles available and provide information about their trash type, ex: building material, garbage wastes, hazardous waste, etc.
- User needs to provide location for trash pick up
- Show cost calculation for this service and payment options.
5) Trash Monitoring
- User can track their trash/garbage status here (regular, one time picked up)
- View their regular schedule status whether it's picked up on time or late, who's picking up the trash.
- Tracking trash status whether it's already get recycled or not.
- Ability to paused pick up regular schedule (On vacation - discontinue pick up for 2 weeks)
- Updating information regarding pick up regular schedule (change pickup address, change schedule, change trash size, etc)
- Rating features to rate overall satisfaction for the services.
6) Customer Support
- Find help regarding services and features that this apps offers (FAQs)
- Rating area to rate the apps
- A form area to send complaints
- List of user complaint list along with their status progress
7) Unique Feature #1
- What feature should this app have based on your experience?
8) Unique Feature #2
- What feature should this app have based on your experience?
Documentation
- Wireframes: See attached wireframes
- DO NOT COPY THE WIRES - they are only meant to get you thinking faster... If everyone copies the wireframes all the submissions will look the same. Make sure to think through the concept and create a unique experience.
Target Audience
- Homeowners looking to be more efficient with their waste disposal
Judging Criteria
- Concepts! How do you tackle simplifying this experience?
- Presentation! This is critical!
- Great modern user interface combined with good mobile usability
- Cleanliness of your graphics and design.
- Your design concepts should be possible to build and implement.
- Creativity and simplicity are the keys to success as it must be engaging to users.
Submission & Source Files
Preview Image
Create your preview image as one 1920x1080 (16:9 Ratio) JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode at 72dpi and place a screenshot of your submission within it.
Submission File
- Please upload PNG images in a zip file with all requested contest requirements stated above. Number your files (01, 02, 03, etc) this will help review them in order.
- Please submit documentation in pdf format with as many pages and images as required to explain your design and solution.
Source Files
All original source files of the submitted design. Files should be created in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator and saved as layered PSD/AI files.
Final Fixes
Note: This LUX could have final fixes
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.