Challenge Summary
Welcome to “FAST! Perfect Day as a Topcoder Gig Worker - Ideation Challenge”. The goal of this challenge is to quickly create and generate guidance for our on-site Topcoder team (adroc, hmehta, will_price, mtwomey, mmorris, Oanh.Tran) over the next 12 hours. Our team has a presentation in 3 days focused on "what the Topcoder Platform will look like in 5 years from now" and we are looking to kick things off with thoughts and ideas (crowdsourced with you!). This is purely paper napkin style ideation and it is FAST but we do need you to follow the provided guidelines mentioned below.
IDEAS - THE QUESTIONS
IDEAS - SOME BRAINSTORMING AND THOUGHTS
The following is the result of a quick brainstorming session with the workshop team, we provide this only as your references to help you start your creative idea process. This area is wide open for any creative and innovative ideas, suggest anything on your mind:
IDEAS - YOUR SUBMISSION FORMAT
TARGET AUDIENCE
JUDGING CRITERIA
SUBMISSION AND SOURCE FILES
FINAL FIXES
IDEAS - THE QUESTIONS
- Ideation Question: A day in the life of a fulfilled Topcoder gig worker:
- What would it take to go from a part-time Topcoder to full-time Topcoder
- Ideation of what benefits you are interested in (what matters to you)
- What are you willing to do to earn a tier that provides benefits
- What would make things easier to use? Mobile, Voice?
- Localization benefits
IDEAS - SOME BRAINSTORMING AND THOUGHTS
The following is the result of a quick brainstorming session with the workshop team, we provide this only as your references to help you start your creative idea process. This area is wide open for any creative and innovative ideas, suggest anything on your mind:
- By improving the scoring system (members activeness)? The more activity in the platform, the more benefits a member might receive? What benefits are you interested in? (Ex: Healthcare insurance, Retirement savings, what is important to you?)
- Career Path? Focus on building a specific career path for members (via combining challenges, THRIVE articles, Bootcamp, Online Mentoring, Discussions, etc?) - How can we set up the goals, the step by step, tracking progress, and how can we support here?
- The Experts - similar to Google Expert, it's a certification/recognition, how can we make our members being recognized worldwide and make them proud as a Topcoder Gig Worker?
- Scoring or tier system to have access to different benefits? What benefits matter?
- Scoring or tier system to pay top-tier members who submit (no matter of outcome)
- Some Boundaries:
- We will keep competitions/challenges available in the platform
- We will keep Private Task/Direct Tasks/TaaS
IDEAS - YOUR SUBMISSION FORMAT
- We are looking for ideas! - But we also need a structure to your ideas so we can understand them and make it easier when reviewing.
- Your ideas should also be realistiC..and ideally solving our problems!
- Make sure to follow the following format in your documents:
01) Idea
- High-level overview/statement of the idea
- One or two sentences describing your idea
02) Name
- Any "tagline" you would like to associate with your idea (help when we review/reference them)
03) The User Story
- This is critical, we need 2-3 paragraphs describing your idea, solution, and potential technologies, platforms, data sources or efforts.
04) Details
- Any quick sketches, wireframes or designs/images to better explain and pitch your idea (not mandatory, but recommended to make your ideas clear to us)
05) Pitch
- Imagine trying to sell your idea
- High-level overview/statement of the idea
- One or two sentences describing your idea
02) Name
- Any "tagline" you would like to associate with your idea (help when we review/reference them)
03) The User Story
- This is critical, we need 2-3 paragraphs describing your idea, solution, and potential technologies, platforms, data sources or efforts.
04) Details
- Any quick sketches, wireframes or designs/images to better explain and pitch your idea (not mandatory, but recommended to make your ideas clear to us)
05) Pitch
- Imagine trying to sell your idea
- Notes: Although there is no limit to the number of submissions you can upload, you should only upload multiple submissions if each one is substantially different from your others. Within these constraints, you are free to describe any number of alternative approaches and extra features. In fact, we encourage you to do so. You can't have too many ideas
TARGET AUDIENCE
- Topcoder Members, You!
JUDGING CRITERIA
- Feasibility of your idea
- The creativity of your idea and ease-of-use to successfully engage users
- Idea scenario coverage and details
- Adherence to the requested deliverable format
SUBMISSION AND SOURCE FILES
- Submission Files: create your ideas in a readable format, It can be PNG, JPG, PDF, HTML, DOC, TXT, RTF, PPT, MP4 or AVI file.
- Source Files: All original source files of the submitted ideas, can be AI, PSD, PDF, HTML, DOC, TXT, RTF, PPT, MP4 or AVI file.
FINAL FIXES
- As part of the final fixes phase, you may be asked to complete one round of minor changes to ensure your submission meets the stated requirements of this challenge.
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.