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 Responsive Desktop experience.
Problem: Gig Market
Today the information revolution allows workers worldwide access to a variety of marketplaces for gig/freelance opportunities where people can perform a myriad of jobs from the comfort of their home. One problem on the demand side of this marketplace is locating talent and creating collaborative teams to work on projects seamlessly.
If you want to outsource the design and development of a mobile application, typically, you would set up a team or hire a company that runs this on your behalf. What if instead, everyone had access to an advisor that gathers the information about your project, then the advisor assembles a team composed of workers belonging to any gig network, including a project manager you would contact and then run your project for you?
This application database would leverage the trusted Gig networks' profile information, such as Topcoder, Upwork, 99designs, Fiverr, Toptal. It can combine members based on their experience, skills, ratings, and availability. Combined with the project information (what is to be built), it provides a proposal as an outcome: a proposition that contains the suggested person or team, cost, and time to be completed.
Similarly, if I want to build a chair, it should ask the right questions and propose a team of one, two, or whatever it considers necessary according to the AI recommendations.
Possible application features:
Design Challenge: Chatbot Intake Form
For the challenge, we are looking for a desktop responsive application that fulfills the following success path for the user searching for a team or individual for a project:
Design a chatbot intake flow that sustains a conversation with the user to gather the information needed to generate a quote. What questions should be included by the bot? Current budget? Deadline? Once the information is captured, the user is presented with a list of proposed gig workers and can filter or replace the team members.
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 Responsive Desktop experience.
Problem: Gig Market
Today the information revolution allows workers worldwide access to a variety of marketplaces for gig/freelance opportunities where people can perform a myriad of jobs from the comfort of their home. One problem on the demand side of this marketplace is locating talent and creating collaborative teams to work on projects seamlessly.
If you want to outsource the design and development of a mobile application, typically, you would set up a team or hire a company that runs this on your behalf. What if instead, everyone had access to an advisor that gathers the information about your project, then the advisor assembles a team composed of workers belonging to any gig network, including a project manager you would contact and then run your project for you?
This application database would leverage the trusted Gig networks' profile information, such as Topcoder, Upwork, 99designs, Fiverr, Toptal. It can combine members based on their experience, skills, ratings, and availability. Combined with the project information (what is to be built), it provides a proposal as an outcome: a proposition that contains the suggested person or team, cost, and time to be completed.
Similarly, if I want to build a chair, it should ask the right questions and propose a team of one, two, or whatever it considers necessary according to the AI recommendations.
Possible application features:
- A chatbot as part of the intake process: conversation to gather project requirements
- A proposal screen: showcases a team of selected members plus the costs.
- Member details with skills and experience = high-level metrics about each person (percentage match, top skills, experience level).
Design Challenge: Chatbot Intake Form
For the challenge, we are looking for a desktop responsive application that fulfills the following success path for the user searching for a team or individual for a project:
Design a chatbot intake flow that sustains a conversation with the user to gather the information needed to generate a quote. What questions should be included by the bot? Current budget? Deadline? Once the information is captured, the user is presented with a list of proposed gig workers and can filter or replace the team members.
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
- Responsive Desktop Application: 1400px width x height as much as needed
- Marvel App Project: “TCO Challenge7"
Target Audience
- Anyone looking to contact and get work done via freelancing platforms.
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 Challenge7” 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.