Challenge Summary
Welcome to the "RUX - 'My Appliance' Mobile App Design Concepts Challenge"! We are looking to explore the best UI/UX design concepts for ‘My Appliance’ mobile application that will provide user/customer an ability to control their home appliance via cloud-based voice service application (for example: Amazon Alexa, Google Home) using custom skill protocol. We are looking for design concepts and new ways to think about the user interface in this challenge.
What is a RUX Challenge?
The RUX (Rapid User Experience) challenge uses the same format as our famous LUX Challenge except it is not "Live" at an event. The RUX Challenge Series provides you with an opportunity to show digital leaders from some of the largest companies in the world just how good your concept and user experience (UI/UX) design skills are.
RUX (Rapid User Experience) challenges are fast, fun, and have more chances for you to capture prize money!
Note: You do not need to have RUX challenge experience to join this challenge - Just jump in and give it a try! Make sure to follow the challenge details, the challenge forum and ask questions
Full Description & Project Guide
The goal of this challenge is to take the provided requirements, analyze them and provide better design concepts/user experience, visual ideas on how the application might look and work!
RUX Challenge Timeline and Rolling Checkpoint
- Submission Start: 12th December 2018 at 10:00 AM EST
- Rolling Checkpoint Start: 13th December 2018 at 22:00 PM EST
- Submission End: 15th December 2018 at 10:00 AM EST
We are offering 5 Prizes Placements
- 1st Placement: $2000
- 2nd Placement: $1500
- 3rd Placement: $1000
- 4th Placement: $750
- 5th Placement: $500
- Plus 8 placements for Rolling Checkpoint prizes @ $50 each!
Note: Important Rolling Checkpoint Details
- Client and PM will be available for early submissions and Rolling Feedback!
- We will answer questions and provide Rolling checkpoint Feedback as fast as possible.
- You must watch the Forum for your feedback!
- All initial qualifying checkpoint submissions will win $50 (8 Placements)
Design Consideration
- Easy to understand user flow
- Intuitive for the user
- A fresh and modern UI design
- Best practice for Mobile App
- This is an exploratory/concepts design challenge. We are looking for your ideas.
- Best Practice for Voice service app in Mobile devices
Challenge Forum
Please ask in challenge forum for any doubts/questions regarding challenge requirements:
https://apps.topcoder.com/forums/?module=ThreadList&forumID=649406
Background Overview
Our client is a leader of the $100 billion global home appliance industry. The appliances are marketed in nearly every country around the world. They manufacture appliances across all major categories, including laundry, cooking, refrigeration, dishwashers, countertop appliances, garage organization, and water filtration. They market some of the world's most recognized appliance brands.
We aspire to overhaul the aesthetics of the new app as well as design and blend-in a user experience which is more task driven which appeals to a rich and seamless experience that the user can relate to in real life.
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Screen Requirements
For this challenge, we are looking for you to create a set of screens that are easy to visualize for the following scenarios. Feel free to take creative liberties when designing the screens:
Persona Background
- Name: Kelly
- Age: 25 yrs
- Profession: Event Planner
- Kelly is a single and an aggressive Event Planner. She is a fitness freak and likes to hit the gym every day
01) My Laundry Scenario (Mobile Device Only)
Kelly has an important event coming up in a day and she has her workout clothes in the pending laundry. As she is late of work, she decides to do her laundry on her way to work.
1. Kelly Logs In to My Appliance App through her Mobile phone
2. Personalized Screen:
- After logging in, she gets a personalized screen which displays - Date and time, her photo and a personalized message. For eg. 'Good Morning Kelly, How may I help you today?'
- She should be able to tell her App to go to her My Laundry section directly (maybe through 3rd party Google Alexa)
- She should be able to see her 'My Appliance' link in the app, from where she would be able to see all her appliances that she's attached/registered to the App. From there she can click on 'My Laundry' and use the washing machine
- Have notifications and Search feature
- Add anything else that you feel would make her experience easier
- The App informs her to sign up for an extended service plan; she clicks yes and now she doesn't have to worry about her service plan expired.
3. My Laundry (Washing Machine):
- In this screen, She's able to control the water in coming - outgoing, change features like Wrinkle Prevent, Adds her timer and Starts the machine
- Midway through the laundry, she gets a notification that detergent is running low
- She doesn't worry, because her App is configured for automatic re-ordering with 3rd party (for example, Amazon). She orders one, for her next wash
- During the running cycle, she decides to Pause and add few more features like Reduce Static, TumbleFresh and continues the running of the laundry cycle
- Once the washing is done, she gets a notification that her washing is complete
- She Stops the machine and saves her laundry cycle into her Favourites, so that she can use the same cycle for the next wash for the same set of clothing.
02) My Cooking Scenario (Mobile Device Only)
After a busy and tiring day, Kelly decides to go home, relax and enjoy her warm meal which she knows her cook would have cooked and left it in the oven. But because she's very hungry and tired, she decides to heat her meal through her App on her way back home.
1. Kelly Logs In to My Appliance App through her Mobile phone
2. Personalized Screen:
- After logging in, she gets a personalized screen which displays Date and time, her photo and a personalized message. For eg. Good Evening Kelly, How may I help you today?
- She should be able to tell her app to go to her My Cooking section directly (maybe through 3rd party Google Alexa)
- She should be able to see her 'My Appliance' link in the app, from where she would be able to see all her appliances that she's attached/registered to the app. From there she can click on 'My Cooking'
- Have notifications and Search feature
- Add anything else that you feel would make her experience easier
- The App informs her to sign up for an extended service plan; she clicks yes and now she doesn't have to worry about her service plan expired.
3. My Cooking (Oven):
- In this screen, she can view the oven's status and sees that the oven is not ON, the mode is displayed as "Idle"
- She remotely turns the oven light ON
- Adjusts the Time and Temperature and Starts heating her food
- As the oven is in the cooking mode, the status of the oven shows "Preheat" or "Running" based on the mode she's chosen
- Once the food is heated, she gets a notification that the cooking cycle has completed
- She stops the oven and turns the oven light OFF
- She also gets notified about new recipes based on her previous history
03) Variation Device Screens (Tablet and Smartwatch)
- MUST HAVE! Create one screen about My Laundry (Washing Machine) for iPad Tablet device (washing machine laundry setting screen)
- NICE TO HAVE! Create one screen about notification when the appliance (laundry or cooking) working status coming to Apple Watch device
04) Presentation Screen - 1920px x 1080px (16:9 Ratio)
- In a RUX challenge, this screen is the way to showcase your concept so keep it simple and make it look good!
- If you were walking into a meeting and needed to sell your idea - use this screen to showcase your concept.
Branding Guidelines
- This should be a professional looking application with an engaging and modern theme
- See this document for the color schemes
- Design style and Font is open to designers
Screen Devices
- Mobile Devices: 1080px x 1920px (iPhone 8 Plus and Android Phone)
- Tablet: 1536px x 2048px (iPad)
- Smart Watch: 312px x 390px (Apple Watch series 3)
MarvelApp Prototype
- Your designs must be uploaded to MarvelApp
- Please send your marvel app request to fajar.mln@gmail.com or in the challenge forum
- You MUST include your MarvelApp URL (in your marvel app prototype, click on share and then copy the link & share it within your notes while you upload).
Judging Criteria
Your submission will be judged on the following criteria:
- Overall idea and execution of concepts
- How well does your design align with the objectives of the challenge
- Execution and thoughtfulness put into the solving the problem
- The overall design and user experience
- Cleanliness of screen design and user flow
Target Audience
- Our Customer / Product User
Submission & Source Files
Preview Image
Please create your preview image as one (1) 1024x1024px JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode at 72 dpi and place a screenshot of your submission within it
Submission File
- Submit JPG/PNG for your submission files
- Submit Marvel app for your design
Source Files
All original source files of the submitted design. Source files may be created in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, XD or Sketch!
Final Fixes
This RUX might have Final Fixes!
What is a RUX Challenge?
The RUX (Rapid User Experience) challenge uses the same format as our famous LUX Challenge except it is not "Live" at an event. The RUX Challenge Series provides you with an opportunity to show digital leaders from some of the largest companies in the world just how good your concept and user experience (UI/UX) design skills are.
RUX (Rapid User Experience) challenges are fast, fun, and have more chances for you to capture prize money!
Note: You do not need to have RUX challenge experience to join this challenge - Just jump in and give it a try! Make sure to follow the challenge details, the challenge forum and ask questions
Full Description & Project Guide
The goal of this challenge is to take the provided requirements, analyze them and provide better design concepts/user experience, visual ideas on how the application might look and work!
RUX Challenge Timeline and Rolling Checkpoint
- Submission Start: 12th December 2018 at 10:00 AM EST
- Rolling Checkpoint Start: 13th December 2018 at 22:00 PM EST
- Submission End: 15th December 2018 at 10:00 AM EST
We are offering 5 Prizes Placements
- 1st Placement: $2000
- 2nd Placement: $1500
- 3rd Placement: $1000
- 4th Placement: $750
- 5th Placement: $500
- Plus 8 placements for Rolling Checkpoint prizes @ $50 each!
Note: Important Rolling Checkpoint Details
- Client and PM will be available for early submissions and Rolling Feedback!
- We will answer questions and provide Rolling checkpoint Feedback as fast as possible.
- You must watch the Forum for your feedback!
- All initial qualifying checkpoint submissions will win $50 (8 Placements)
Design Consideration
- Easy to understand user flow
- Intuitive for the user
- A fresh and modern UI design
- Best practice for Mobile App
- This is an exploratory/concepts design challenge. We are looking for your ideas.
- Best Practice for Voice service app in Mobile devices
Challenge Forum
Please ask in challenge forum for any doubts/questions regarding challenge requirements:
https://apps.topcoder.com/forums/?module=ThreadList&forumID=649406
Background Overview
Our client is a leader of the $100 billion global home appliance industry. The appliances are marketed in nearly every country around the world. They manufacture appliances across all major categories, including laundry, cooking, refrigeration, dishwashers, countertop appliances, garage organization, and water filtration. They market some of the world's most recognized appliance brands.
We aspire to overhaul the aesthetics of the new app as well as design and blend-in a user experience which is more task driven which appeals to a rich and seamless experience that the user can relate to in real life.
~
Screen Requirements
For this challenge, we are looking for you to create a set of screens that are easy to visualize for the following scenarios. Feel free to take creative liberties when designing the screens:
Persona Background
- Name: Kelly
- Age: 25 yrs
- Profession: Event Planner
- Kelly is a single and an aggressive Event Planner. She is a fitness freak and likes to hit the gym every day
01) My Laundry Scenario (Mobile Device Only)
Kelly has an important event coming up in a day and she has her workout clothes in the pending laundry. As she is late of work, she decides to do her laundry on her way to work.
1. Kelly Logs In to My Appliance App through her Mobile phone
2. Personalized Screen:
- After logging in, she gets a personalized screen which displays - Date and time, her photo and a personalized message. For eg. 'Good Morning Kelly, How may I help you today?'
- She should be able to tell her App to go to her My Laundry section directly (maybe through 3rd party Google Alexa)
- She should be able to see her 'My Appliance' link in the app, from where she would be able to see all her appliances that she's attached/registered to the App. From there she can click on 'My Laundry' and use the washing machine
- Have notifications and Search feature
- Add anything else that you feel would make her experience easier
- The App informs her to sign up for an extended service plan; she clicks yes and now she doesn't have to worry about her service plan expired.
3. My Laundry (Washing Machine):
- In this screen, She's able to control the water in coming - outgoing, change features like Wrinkle Prevent, Adds her timer and Starts the machine
- Midway through the laundry, she gets a notification that detergent is running low
- She doesn't worry, because her App is configured for automatic re-ordering with 3rd party (for example, Amazon). She orders one, for her next wash
- During the running cycle, she decides to Pause and add few more features like Reduce Static, TumbleFresh and continues the running of the laundry cycle
- Once the washing is done, she gets a notification that her washing is complete
- She Stops the machine and saves her laundry cycle into her Favourites, so that she can use the same cycle for the next wash for the same set of clothing.
02) My Cooking Scenario (Mobile Device Only)
After a busy and tiring day, Kelly decides to go home, relax and enjoy her warm meal which she knows her cook would have cooked and left it in the oven. But because she's very hungry and tired, she decides to heat her meal through her App on her way back home.
1. Kelly Logs In to My Appliance App through her Mobile phone
2. Personalized Screen:
- After logging in, she gets a personalized screen which displays Date and time, her photo and a personalized message. For eg. Good Evening Kelly, How may I help you today?
- She should be able to tell her app to go to her My Cooking section directly (maybe through 3rd party Google Alexa)
- She should be able to see her 'My Appliance' link in the app, from where she would be able to see all her appliances that she's attached/registered to the app. From there she can click on 'My Cooking'
- Have notifications and Search feature
- Add anything else that you feel would make her experience easier
- The App informs her to sign up for an extended service plan; she clicks yes and now she doesn't have to worry about her service plan expired.
3. My Cooking (Oven):
- In this screen, she can view the oven's status and sees that the oven is not ON, the mode is displayed as "Idle"
- She remotely turns the oven light ON
- Adjusts the Time and Temperature and Starts heating her food
- As the oven is in the cooking mode, the status of the oven shows "Preheat" or "Running" based on the mode she's chosen
- Once the food is heated, she gets a notification that the cooking cycle has completed
- She stops the oven and turns the oven light OFF
- She also gets notified about new recipes based on her previous history
03) Variation Device Screens (Tablet and Smartwatch)
- MUST HAVE! Create one screen about My Laundry (Washing Machine) for iPad Tablet device (washing machine laundry setting screen)
- NICE TO HAVE! Create one screen about notification when the appliance (laundry or cooking) working status coming to Apple Watch device
04) Presentation Screen - 1920px x 1080px (16:9 Ratio)
- In a RUX challenge, this screen is the way to showcase your concept so keep it simple and make it look good!
- If you were walking into a meeting and needed to sell your idea - use this screen to showcase your concept.
Branding Guidelines
- This should be a professional looking application with an engaging and modern theme
- See this document for the color schemes
- Design style and Font is open to designers
Screen Devices
- Mobile Devices: 1080px x 1920px (iPhone 8 Plus and Android Phone)
- Tablet: 1536px x 2048px (iPad)
- Smart Watch: 312px x 390px (Apple Watch series 3)
MarvelApp Prototype
- Your designs must be uploaded to MarvelApp
- Please send your marvel app request to fajar.mln@gmail.com or in the challenge forum
- You MUST include your MarvelApp URL (in your marvel app prototype, click on share and then copy the link & share it within your notes while you upload).
Judging Criteria
Your submission will be judged on the following criteria:
- Overall idea and execution of concepts
- How well does your design align with the objectives of the challenge
- Execution and thoughtfulness put into the solving the problem
- The overall design and user experience
- Cleanliness of screen design and user flow
Target Audience
- Our Customer / Product User
Submission & Source Files
Preview Image
Please create your preview image as one (1) 1024x1024px JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode at 72 dpi and place a screenshot of your submission within it
Submission File
- Submit JPG/PNG for your submission files
- Submit Marvel app for your design
Source Files
All original source files of the submitted design. Source files may be created in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, XD or Sketch!
Final Fixes
This RUX might 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.