Challenge Summary
Welcome to the "IBM Cognitive - Weather Sales Performance Analytics Dashboard Wireframe Challenge". The goal of this challenge is to plan and wireframe a dashboard that leverages cognitive thinking and technology to help business users understand the overall effect of weather on sales for different business units and materials. We want to users to be able to open their analytics dashboard and quickly get contextual information and be able to take action based on the information provided.
We are looking to wireframe dashboard concepts and interactions that are intuitive, informative and easy to understand using cognitive technology and interaction techniques.
Looking forward to seeing your solutions!
01. Dashboard incorporating cognitive technology
02. Map - drill down view
03. Cognitive Features - make sure you cover this part since this is what we are looking for.
Notes.txt: any comments about your wireframe for the client
01. Dashboard
02. Map - drill down view
03. Cognitive Features - make sure you cover this part since this is what we are looking for.
Notes.txt: any comments about your wireframe for the client
Challenge Description
The goal of this challenge is to create an interactive and intuitive dashboard wireframe for monitoring and predicting risk associated with weather changes by leverage the use of cognitive computing in your design. We want you to think about how to bring this futuristic process into the dashboard to help business users handle their day-to-day tasks. This is a wireframe challenge that is focused on "concepts" and potential interactions.
The key feature of this dashboard is how weather data affects the provided business data. We want to be able to provide any business data (retail, food, beverage, manufacturing, health & fitness etc.) and to see how the weather dashboard helps the user understand its effects on their business.
In this challenge, we want you to focusing and using cognitive technology while thinking and planning the wireframe.
This should be a fun challenge to explore and learn about new technology and how to plan UI/UX for cognitive.
What is The Topcoder Cognitive Community?
The Topcoder Cognitive Community is designed to help you develop the Cognitive technology skills you need for the jobs of tomorrow. Get access to informational resources, participate in fun challenges, and exchange tips with fellow designers & developers around the world. For more information, you can visit cognitive.topcoder.com, Make sure to sign-up to learn more about Cognitive technology. There is also additional information in the challenge forum - please review!
Challenge Goals
We are looking for Responsive (Desktop,Mobile) dashboard wireframe that leverages cognitive computing from provided information. We would like to see both Desktop and Mobile in ths challenge.
Challenge Considerations
Important: We are looking for NEW solutions using modern "data visualization" techniques! One of the key items we want to visualize is how a user will tap/click into the data and see the visualization of secondary information.
- Keep the experience visual and interactive
- This application will consolidate data from Weather Company for IBM® Bluemix® which is a specialized service designed to uncover and quantify the precise relationship between the weather and business performance.
- Focus on concepts around introducing cognitive into this dashboard and replacing existing/known interaction patterns.
- Interactions should quickly draw our business users attention to areas that need additional focus.
- Set clear visual clues that will be used throughout the navigation experience.
- Focus on trends (year over year performance), benchmarks, etc wherever applicable.
Cognitive Features
Below are potential cognitives features you can consider for your dashboard. Take your time to research about it and remember to not think what feature will work and which is not, BUT think HOW to bring this human interaction in this dashboard.
Weather Data
https://console.ng.bluemix.net/docs/services/Weather/index.html
Retrieve and Rank
https://console.ng.bluemix.net/catalog/services/retrieve-and-rank?taxonomyNavigation=watson
Example of Others Cognitive Products
https://www.ibm.com/watson/products.html
Important Requirement:
- Keep things consistent. This means all wireframe styles should work together.
- Keeping consistent visual elements - from signal, to understanding, to action planning.
- The wireframe will need to be responsive and will run on Desktop, Mobile
-- Desktop: 1280px and height adjustable
-- Mobile: 750px x 1334px
- Please keep in mind that ultimately we will be building a responsive web application.
Suggested Screens and Features
01. Dashboard
- Show (modern) map showing weather impact locations that allows the user to click into the map to explore and find information/filter details on the drill/click/tap view.
- Show dashboard data modules/widgets for the market you have chosen: Some examples:
-- Category YOY (Year of Year)
-- Category Region (Allow for a simple filter to change region?)
-- Category by Period
-- Store-Level (Placeholder)
-- 2D Weather Impact
Note: Some of the modules might have simple filters in the dashboard (see the data/what might make sense to filter in a dashboard view)
02. Map - Drill in view
- Ability to Tap/Click/Drill in the map
- Need to have some Notification/Alerts that able to notify Account/Territory managers based on potential Incremental Sales impact of weather fluctuation for respective territories
- The application should have the ability to drill down sub-territories, Accounts, Stores, Restaurants/Bars etc
- Ability to pass on data information to the Supply planners and S&OP systems for necessary adjustments in the supply chain planning (share, export, import data features to others)
03: Cognitive Features
- What other pages or interactions are you thinking about?
- Research different markets and think of what might be useful for that market in the dashboard, drill-down, detail view.
Target Audience:
- Business users
- User looking to plug-in their data and mash it up with our weather dashboard.
Learn Axure
New to Axure? Here are some quick tutorials to help you get started.
http://www.axure.com/support
Judging Criteria
- User Experience of the dashboard
- Completeness and accuracy of your wireframes
- How well your wireframes interpret the requirements and show us new ideas and concepts
- How consistent your user flow
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
Wireframes should be built in HTML or Axure
Source Files
All original source files of the submitted ideas. If you would like to submit notes please include notes.txt file.
Final Fixes
As part of the final fixes phase, you may be asked to modify content or user click paths.
We are looking to wireframe dashboard concepts and interactions that are intuitive, informative and easy to understand using cognitive technology and interaction techniques.
Looking forward to seeing your solutions!
Round 1
Submit your initial wireframe solution for a checkpoint feedback - Desktop01. Dashboard incorporating cognitive technology
02. Map - drill down view
03. Cognitive Features - make sure you cover this part since this is what we are looking for.
Notes.txt: any comments about your wireframe for the client
Round 2
Submit your final wireframe solution plus checkpoint feedback - Desktop and Mobile.01. Dashboard
02. Map - drill down view
03. Cognitive Features - make sure you cover this part since this is what we are looking for.
Notes.txt: any comments about your wireframe for the client
Challenge Description
The goal of this challenge is to create an interactive and intuitive dashboard wireframe for monitoring and predicting risk associated with weather changes by leverage the use of cognitive computing in your design. We want you to think about how to bring this futuristic process into the dashboard to help business users handle their day-to-day tasks. This is a wireframe challenge that is focused on "concepts" and potential interactions.
The key feature of this dashboard is how weather data affects the provided business data. We want to be able to provide any business data (retail, food, beverage, manufacturing, health & fitness etc.) and to see how the weather dashboard helps the user understand its effects on their business.
In this challenge, we want you to focusing and using cognitive technology while thinking and planning the wireframe.
This should be a fun challenge to explore and learn about new technology and how to plan UI/UX for cognitive.
What is The Topcoder Cognitive Community?
The Topcoder Cognitive Community is designed to help you develop the Cognitive technology skills you need for the jobs of tomorrow. Get access to informational resources, participate in fun challenges, and exchange tips with fellow designers & developers around the world. For more information, you can visit cognitive.topcoder.com, Make sure to sign-up to learn more about Cognitive technology. There is also additional information in the challenge forum - please review!
Challenge Goals
We are looking for Responsive (Desktop,Mobile) dashboard wireframe that leverages cognitive computing from provided information. We would like to see both Desktop and Mobile in ths challenge.
Challenge Considerations
Important: We are looking for NEW solutions using modern "data visualization" techniques! One of the key items we want to visualize is how a user will tap/click into the data and see the visualization of secondary information.
- Keep the experience visual and interactive
- This application will consolidate data from Weather Company for IBM® Bluemix® which is a specialized service designed to uncover and quantify the precise relationship between the weather and business performance.
- Focus on concepts around introducing cognitive into this dashboard and replacing existing/known interaction patterns.
- Interactions should quickly draw our business users attention to areas that need additional focus.
- Set clear visual clues that will be used throughout the navigation experience.
- Focus on trends (year over year performance), benchmarks, etc wherever applicable.
Cognitive Features
Below are potential cognitives features you can consider for your dashboard. Take your time to research about it and remember to not think what feature will work and which is not, BUT think HOW to bring this human interaction in this dashboard.
Weather Data
https://console.ng.bluemix.net/docs/services/Weather/index.html
Retrieve and Rank
https://console.ng.bluemix.net/catalog/services/retrieve-and-rank?taxonomyNavigation=watson
Example of Others Cognitive Products
https://www.ibm.com/watson/products.html
Important Requirement:
- Keep things consistent. This means all wireframe styles should work together.
- Keeping consistent visual elements - from signal, to understanding, to action planning.
- The wireframe will need to be responsive and will run on Desktop, Mobile
-- Desktop: 1280px and height adjustable
-- Mobile: 750px x 1334px
- Please keep in mind that ultimately we will be building a responsive web application.
Suggested Screens and Features
01. Dashboard
- Show (modern) map showing weather impact locations that allows the user to click into the map to explore and find information/filter details on the drill/click/tap view.
- Show dashboard data modules/widgets for the market you have chosen: Some examples:
-- Category YOY (Year of Year)
-- Category Region (Allow for a simple filter to change region?)
-- Category by Period
-- Store-Level (Placeholder)
-- 2D Weather Impact
Note: Some of the modules might have simple filters in the dashboard (see the data/what might make sense to filter in a dashboard view)
02. Map - Drill in view
- Ability to Tap/Click/Drill in the map
- Need to have some Notification/Alerts that able to notify Account/Territory managers based on potential Incremental Sales impact of weather fluctuation for respective territories
- The application should have the ability to drill down sub-territories, Accounts, Stores, Restaurants/Bars etc
- Ability to pass on data information to the Supply planners and S&OP systems for necessary adjustments in the supply chain planning (share, export, import data features to others)
03: Cognitive Features
- What other pages or interactions are you thinking about?
- Research different markets and think of what might be useful for that market in the dashboard, drill-down, detail view.
Target Audience:
- Business users
- User looking to plug-in their data and mash it up with our weather dashboard.
Learn Axure
New to Axure? Here are some quick tutorials to help you get started.
http://www.axure.com/support
Judging Criteria
- User Experience of the dashboard
- Completeness and accuracy of your wireframes
- How well your wireframes interpret the requirements and show us new ideas and concepts
- How consistent your user flow
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
Wireframes should be built in HTML or Axure
Source Files
All original source files of the submitted ideas. If you would like to submit notes please include notes.txt file.
Final Fixes
As part of the final fixes phase, you may be asked to modify content or user click paths.
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.