TCO20 UI DESIGN CHAMPIONSHIP Round 8: Gig'vestor

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: Gig Investment Plan
As a designer in the gig/freelance economy, you might not have spent time planning out your retirement or how to manage and invest your income for you and your family's future. In this challenge, we are looking to design an application to help "novice" investors find the best place to invest their money. The application would help new investors understand their options based on current savings, monthly savings, life goals, risk tolerance, and time targets.

This Gig'vester application will help a freelancer create an investment plan which will consist of several options (globally) like real estate, the stock market (different stock markets,  portfolio options: Futures, ETF's, Mutual Funds, etc.) This advisor will help analyze what works and is available to them.

Design Challenge: Onboarding Experience
Design the Tablet onboarding and dashboard experience for a newbie Gig'vestor customer.

The app could showcase the best investment "suggestions" for our user, based on:

• Risk tolerance
• Goals
• Time target
• Monthly savings
• Current savings

The user can modify each one of these parameters and see how their ROI might change.

Each investment plan will have a few sections that capture:

• Real estate (different options)
• Stock markets (different stock markets)
• Portfolio options (Futures, ETFs, Mutual Funds, etc.)

Other Thoughts

• The ability to see friends investments and share investment recommendations
• Chatbot help with any questions/ guide the user
• Option to find more details about each investment (get into technical details quickly)

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
• Marvel app project that is called “TCO Challenge8"

Target Audience

• You! Invest your winnings after you win this challenge!

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 in Marvelapp project that is called “TCO Challenge8” so make sure to upload your designs in that project.