Challenge Summary
Looking for your design thoughts on how to visualize this data! Think of the user and how they will want to interact with this information.
Looking forward to seeing your design concepts. Good Luck!
Round 1
Submit your initial designs for Checkpoint Feedback
1. Dashboard (Main Apartment Communities View)
1A. View Communities with Prices less than the Market Value
2. Community Level
3. Heating and Cooling Service Calls
4. Visual capturing the units with rent 5% below market
4A. View Floor and Floor Plans
5. Building Level
As part of your checkpoint submission, you must upload your submission to InvisionApp so we can provide direct feedback on your designs.
- Please request an InvisionApp link from the Copilot through the challenge forum
- Make sure all pages have correct flow. Please number your files (00, 01, 02, 03).
Round 2
Your Final designs for all the required designs with all Checkpoint Feedback implemented.
1. Dashboard (Main Apartment Communities View)
1A. View Communities with Prices less than the Market Value
2. Community Level
3. Heating and Cooling Service Calls
4. Visual capturing the units with rent 5% below market
4A. View Floor and Floor Plans
5. Building Level
6. Individual Unit Level
As part of your final submission, you must upload your submission to InvisionApp so we can provide direct feedback on your designs.
- If you have time - look to capture any of the steps or interactions within InvisionApp
- Please request an InvisionApp link from the Copilot through the challenge forum.
- Make sure all pages have correct flow. Please number your files (00, 01, 02, 03).
This challenge is focused on creating a dashboard/map experience that allows a Cortland employee the ability to “zoom-in" and explore their rental property data. Cortland rental properties are located all over the Unites States so you can imagine how useful it would be to zoom-in, explore and focus on specific properties and property data.
Workflow:
- Visual of text describing all rentals available
- Be able to drill into one complex or building (idea is there are multiple units per complex)
- See rent history of all units in complex
- See visual comparing units available
- Drill down into 1 unit
- Example Scenario: Why is this unit always renting for $100 less than others... is it because of the view? the noise? the coordinates? demographics? etc.
- Finally, highlight that one unit, show available "view from apartment" images and associated data.
Design Considerations:
- There is no specific size, feel free to use a desktop size that would be appropriate for your design.
- No specific branding guidelines, colors are open to you!
Required Screens:
For this challenge, we would like you to focus on how the given data is visualized, and not about the overall design of the application. The key thing is how do we zoom-in, explore, see the data and visualize it in context of the rental property/complex.
1. Dashboard (Main Apartment Communities View):
Reference: Tab 1 (Visual of communities) in the excel file
- This screen will need to show the US map with 3D style heatmap of the visual of 100 apartment communities.
- - Each of the community could be a garden style apartment with 10-30 buildings
- - There could be about 10-12 apartments per building
- - And there could be about 300-400 apartments per community.
- How could we present above data in the visualization, user should be able to view the hierarchy seamlessly!
- Design a 2D/3D modern approach on how the data is presented
- Providing a search will help user narrow down to the community they are looking for.
- Provide tags to help user narrow down / filter based on a particular tag (for ex: low price, Slow Increasing Price, High Level, Very Popular, etc).
1A. View Communities with Prices less than the Market Value:
Reference: Tab 2 (Low rent across communities) in the excel file
- We would like to see the visual of top 5-10 communities with most units 5% or lower than market value.
- How can a user see this view? what triggers to show this view? looking forward to your ideas!
2. Community Level:
Reference: Tab 3 (3131 Georgia) in the excel file
- From the main dashboard view, user will choose to view a particular community and view specific details about that.
- In this particular example, we assume user selects “3131 Georgia” to view more details about that..so how will the user drill into specific community from the overall view?
- This view shows the list of buildings within that community (For ex: within a community there could about 20-30 building and 10-12 apartments per building).
- We have provided the overall view of the Community “Longwood - Survey CAD File.dwg” (file can be opened in Adobe Illustrator), design a modern/3D approach on how this can be presented.
3. Heating and Cooling Service Calls:
Reference: Tab 4 (heating & cooling) in the excel file
- At the community level, user will have options to view a visual of 3131 community “all units” with heating and cooling service calls in last year (heatmap of 10 buildings?).
- How does a user land on this particular view?
4. Visual capturing the units with rent 5% below market:
Reference: Tab 5 (low price) in the excel file
- Visual of 3131 community all units with rent price 5% below market price, can this be shown as a heatmap of 10 buildings?
- Looking for you ideas on how this view need to look like!
4A. View Floor and Floor Plans:
Reference: Tab 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (1st floor, 1st floor - floor plan oakdale, 1st floor - floor plan woodruff, 1st floor - floor plan oxford, 2nd floor, 3rd floor) in the excel file
- Within the community view, we need to show the floor plans based on the number of floors that are available in the building.
- Show us a sequence of screens on how a user will drill into view the 1st floor units.
- - Then be able to view the 1st floor - floor plans, how will a user view the floor plans (floor plan 1, floor plan 2, floor plan 3)?
- How will the user traverse to view the 2nd and 3rd floor details? (Reference: 2nd floor, 3rd floor)
5. Building Level:
Reference: Tab 12 (one building) in the excel file
- From the Community level, user will be able to drill down to (1) building.
Basic information on a unit:
- Rent vs market price vs compared to prior rent
- Floor plan
- Gross square feet
- Bedrooms & bathrooms
- Available Date
- A pie chart for the male v.s. Female
- The average ages of renters
- Photo's capturing the view "from the apartment" (Please see 8103.jpg.zip)
Tags:
- If the rent is less than $1180, show a tag "Low Price"
- If the rent is 5.8% less than the market price, show a tag "Low Price"
- If the rent is not increased more than 8%, show a tag "Slow Increasing Price"
- If the total service time is at least 16, show a tag "Newly Maintained"
- If it is not at the floor 0 & 1, show a tag "High Level"
- If it is very popular, show a tag "Very Popular"
6. Individual Unit Level:
Reference: Tab 13 (One Unit) in the excel file
- When user selects to view a particular apartment in the building, then we show this view.
- This will show basic information on unit: rent vs market price vs compared to prior rent, floor plan, gross square-foot, bedrooms & bathrooms, availability Information, a pie chart for the male v.s. female, the average ages of renters!
- This also need to show the photos of the unit.
- Photo's capturing the view "from the apartment".
Target Audience:
- Cortland employee's
Judging Criteria
We will be judging on:
- Cleanliness of your graphics and design
- Simplicity of design/strong, clear design concept
- How clearly it conveys what the app is supposed to let you achieve / what problem it is designed to solve.
Submission and 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
All requested contest requirements/screens as JPG or PNG files at 300dpi.
Source Files
All original source files for the submitted design. Files should be created in Adobe Illustrator and saved as layered Ai file OR in Adobe Photoshop as a layered PSD 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 and instructions.
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.