Challenge Summary
Welcome to the Living Progress Landing Page Design Challenge! In this challenge we are looking to create a landing page for an initiative called living progress, this landing page will be used to crowd source ideas to support the advantages of bringing people out of poverty by focusing on challenges series that attempt to get people access to financial instruments and STEM education.
Similar to the DOE SunShot Program around the consumer adoption of Solar products leveraging Appirio Crowdsourcing, we want to support the creation of solutions that will become production ready products that can be accessed by people in poverty - Adoption of these products is key.
This is both a functional and marketing site to promote this larger program through multiple channels.
This challenge is going to be single round, so jump in now and start showing us your creative ideas.
Challenge Description:
We want to design the Living Progress Landing Page. It is of critical importance that the experience from viewing this page will inspire users to participate in the program for the purpose of helping humankind.
Very similar to SunShot but more focused on helping inspire creative and talented people in the world to help lift people out of poverty.
Topcoder Landing Pages Examples:
- http://www.topcoder.com/asteroids/
- http://www.topcoder.com/iss/
- http://www1.networkforgood.org/
We are looking for the [topcoder] design Community to help us with planning our new "user experience" (UX).
Branding Guidelines:
- Focus on this video, theme and message for color and brand.
Design Focus:
We will be asking you to come up with the a design which is:
- Intuitive and easy to use.
- Attractive for the target audience.
- Create a visual around lifting people out of poverty.
Target devices:
- Mobile Resolution: Design for iPhone 6 Retina Display 750px x 1334px.
- Desktop Resolution: 1024px and height as required.
Make sure you create graphic in “vector” format, so when resize for retina versions, graphic still look sharp! It will be great if you can provide the landscape version.
User Flow:
- Learn about the program.
- Submit Ideas for Solutions to address Program Themes.
- Profiles of Program Participants – Technology Providers, NGOs and Developers.
- View and respond to challenges.
Required Screens:
1) Landing Page:
- Main Features needed here:
-- Branding and Program Awareness for Program Sponsor.
-- Education of Program Themes - Human Progress, Economic Progress and Environmental Progress.
-- Overview - Goals, Process and Timelines.
-- Summary of the Challenges by Theme.
2) Submit Ideas Page:
- Submit Ideas for Solutions to address Program Themes.
- Include ability to upload videos.
3) Profiles of Program Participants Page:
- Technology Providers, NGOs and Developers.
Important:
- Keep things consistent. This means all graphic styles should work together.
- All of the graphics should have a similar feel and general aesthetic appearance
Target audience:
1 - Program Sponsor - Living Progress.
2 - Challenge Participants.
3 - Not-Profits/NGOs.
4 - topcoder members - existing and new.
5 - Technology Providers.
6 - Program Sponsor Employees.
Judging Criteria:
- How well you plan the user experience and capture your ideas visually.
- Cleanliness of your graphics and design.
- Your design should possible to build and make sense as a mobile application.
- Creativity and ease-of-use is key to the success as it must be engaging to users.
- Making the site something they would check and potentially participate.
Submission & Source Files:
Preview Image
Please create your preview image as one (1) 1024x1024px JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode at 72dpi and place a screenshot of your submission within it.
Submission File
Submit JPG/PNG for your submission files.
Source Files
All original source files of the submitted design. Files should be created in Adobe Photoshop and saved as layered PSD file, or Adobe Illustrator as a layered AI file.
Final Fixes
As part of the final fixes phase you may be asked to modify your graphics (sizes or colors) or modify overall colors. We may ask you to update your design or graphics based on checkpoint feedback.
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.