Challenge Summary
Welcome to the TCO20 UI Design Championship!
Showcasing your concepts and skills in this challenge will determine your placement in the next round.
Analyze the design problem and provide a design concept and visual solution on how the application might look and work.
At Topcoder, we are always pushing you to think about the user, the human experience, and being bold in your design decisions. Take some risks and have fun designing!
This is it! 60 minutes to rapidly design a user interface (UI) that conveys your thoughts and solves the design problem!
ALL TOPCODER DESIGN RULES APPLY. Entries must be your original work and must not infringe on the copyright or licenses of others. All standard Topcoder Terms, Topcoder Policies apply to this challenge. Your design must be created by you and be original to you. You can be inspired by design research, but copying and submitting someone else's designs is against Topcoder policies and will not be tolerated.
RESPECT OTHER DESIGNERS. If you have any doubts, ask!
Challenge Details
The goal of this challenge is to design the look and feel of a native iPad experience.
Problem: Family Fun'd
Today, families coordinate their plans based on the overall budget/funds available within the family. This practice helps new couples make plans together based on shared goals (e.g., wedding, build a baby's room, plan a home renovation, family holiday travel, new car, Disney World trip, backyard swimming pool, college fund, etc.)
In this design challenge, we are looking to conceive a tablet application where couples and families can set up their "goals" and make payments towards these goals (as a family) to help achieve what the family wants to accomplish.
Possible application features:
Design Challenge: Tablet Status
Design a dashboard for the Family Fun'd
Note: You have 60 minutes, so make the most of it.
Design & Branding Guidelines
Submission Format Requirements
Target Audience
Identifying information
Judging Criteria
Submission & Source Files
Marvel
Showcasing your concepts and skills in this challenge will determine your placement in the next round.
Analyze the design problem and provide a design concept and visual solution on how the application might look and work.
At Topcoder, we are always pushing you to think about the user, the human experience, and being bold in your design decisions. Take some risks and have fun designing!
This is it! 60 minutes to rapidly design a user interface (UI) that conveys your thoughts and solves the design problem!
ALL TOPCODER DESIGN RULES APPLY. Entries must be your original work and must not infringe on the copyright or licenses of others. All standard Topcoder Terms, Topcoder Policies apply to this challenge. Your design must be created by you and be original to you. You can be inspired by design research, but copying and submitting someone else's designs is against Topcoder policies and will not be tolerated.
RESPECT OTHER DESIGNERS. If you have any doubts, ask!
Challenge Details
The goal of this challenge is to design the look and feel of a native iPad experience.
Problem: Family Fun'd
Today, families coordinate their plans based on the overall budget/funds available within the family. This practice helps new couples make plans together based on shared goals (e.g., wedding, build a baby's room, plan a home renovation, family holiday travel, new car, Disney World trip, backyard swimming pool, college fund, etc.)
In this design challenge, we are looking to conceive a tablet application where couples and families can set up their "goals" and make payments towards these goals (as a family) to help achieve what the family wants to accomplish.
Possible application features:
- Allow the primary Admin to create the account and invite family members to collaborate.
- Allow family members (Parents, Kids, Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, etc.) to make payments by credit card, automatic transfers (weekly, monthly, etc.), external services like Paypal, Payoneer, Apple Pay, Bitcoin, and more.
- Goals are set up and shared with the family. Voting on the goal/plan everyone wants to contribute towards.
- Alerts and notifications
- Money/fund preferences. e.g., block the money for a year (time) or until the goal amount is reached (funds)
- Smart Dashboard - provides an overview summary of goals, funding, deposits, and payments.
Design Challenge: Tablet Status
Design a dashboard for the Family Fun'd
- Think of how the dashboard would be used and would be "fun" for the family to track towards their goals.
- How might the dashboard information quickly let the user know the status?
- Provide a simple and graphical way to represent the goal or goals and the progression to achieve them.
- Dashboard recommendations based on targets and dates
- Navigation: What elements make sense to have in the navigation according to the user story? Think about crucial actions such as: Add money through payments, deposits, credit card, etc. Invite users, alerts, set goals, etc.
Note: You have 60 minutes, so make the most of it.
Design & Branding Guidelines
- Design for your idea and what you think the best UX could be.
- Font usage is up to the designer.
- Color Palette is up to the designer.
- Don't overthink it!
Submission Format Requirements
- iPad Experience: 2732 x 2048px
- MarvelApp: use the project that is called “TCO Challenge6”
Target Audience
- Your family is looking to fund family trips, holidays, home improvements, education, etc.
Identifying information
- DO NOT use your NAME or TOPCODER HANDLE/USERNAME in your submission
- We are only sharing the submission number during the judging process (XXXXX vs. XXXXX) to the judge.
Judging Criteria
- The TCO judges will evaluate your design on the following criteria:
- Originality in your concept.
- Does the UX make sense?
- Good clean UI design
Submission & Source Files
- Submission File: submit JPG/PNG for your submission files.
- Submit your Source file (does not need to be organized)
- Upload your design to MarvelApp for review
- Note file with Marvel link and anything else
Marvel
- Topcoder will assign each competitor a MarvelApp before the competition. Make sure to upload your design for judging. Marvelapp project is called “TCO Challenge6” so make sure to upload your designs in that project.
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.