Challenge Summary
Welcome to "LMS - Learning Management System Homepage Design Concepts Challenge". In this challenge, we are looking for your initial design concepts that will help us visualize the homepage needed for our Learning Management System (LMS) application. We are looking for the best homepage UI/UX concepts around this application. The overall experience should look professional, sleek and modern. Should be easy to navigate and understand. This is one page requirements challenge, join with us now!!
Round 1
Initial design for client review (Homepage + Logo)
Round 2
All requirements as stated in challenge details with client feedback applied
The Purpose of this challenge is to define the overall direction for the look and feel of the “Sponge LMS” Product Home Page. This page will be the main product home page and provide links to all information, pricing and contact details regarding the product. We are looking for the Topcoder Design Community to help us with planning this "user experience" (UX).
Overview of LMS Apps
A learning management service (LMS) is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of electronic educational technology (also called e-learning) education courses or training programs.
LMS range from systems for managing training and educational records to software for distributing online or blended/hybrid college courses over the Internet with features for online collaboration. Colleges and universities use LMSs to deliver online courses and augment on-campus courses. Corporate training departments use LMSs to deliver online training, as well as to automate record-keeping and employee registration.
Learning Management Service (LMS) in our company is a subscription service that provides organizations the ability to manage and deploy standards-based training including SCORM and AICC to their employees. Our fully-managed and scalable solution significantly reduces the cost and risk associated with implementing a LMS.
Design Considerations
- Looking for modern, intuitive user interface
- Focus on the design being a great user experience, think simple but effective solutions!
- Give importance to the overall layout and think on how a user would interact with the content on the page.
- Show all the screens and provide a user flow/click-path and navigation, so we can see how the interactions fit together in the application
- Branding colors, fonts are open to the designers.
- What should the priority features be?
- How quickly could you find information?
- Stock Photos: Feel free to use any images related to this concept.
Screen Sizes
- Desktop: 1024px width and height as required.
- Will be responsive design. Keep this in mind while designing
Supporting Documents
- Sample description of Sponge LMS
Required Screens
We are looking for the following requirements to be designed/considered in your concepts.
01. LMS Homepage Screen
The homepage screen will needs to provide at least the following informations in it's content :
- Overview / Description of our LMS Product (pictures, description text, button to navigate to details, etc).
- Link to Free Demo
- Schedule a Demo
- Link to Pricing Table
----- Software as Service (SaaS) Pricing based on number of user – ability to add description
----- On-Premise Licensing
----- Other Licensing Options
- Navigation : Home, Support, Downloads/Resources, Pricing, Contact Us
- What should be the best layout for the homepage? Traditional homepage approach? parallax style? show us your suggestion!!
Some Inspiration for the homepage layout : https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=modern%20websites
02. LMS Application Logo
- We need a logo created for the apps.
- No inspiration at the moment, so please feel free to suggest your ideas to us.
- Your logo creation needs to align with the apps purpose. It can be a simple , custom graphic shape creation or both.
- It needs to be appear clean and professional.
- Can be fun, but within reason.
- Use blues as the dominant colors. Accent colors are ok and encouraged.
- Logo colors should work with the homepage as well.
- Create a black and white version and a also a color version of this icon/logo/wordmark.
Guidelines for what makes a good logo :
* http://tannerchristensen.com/rules-for-logo-design/
* http://justcreativedesign.com/2008/12/02/logo-design-resources/
* http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/26/vital-tips-for-effective-logo-design/
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 User
- Customers looking for solutions, strategy and implementation for their e-learning system.
Judging Criteria
Homepage:
- How well you plan the user experience and capture your ideas for the homepage visually
- Cleanliness of your graphics and design
- Creativity and ease-of-use is key to the success as it must be engaging to users.
Logo:
- Does your logo look fresh, professional and clean?
- Is the composition/layout well done?
- Does your logo convey the meaning of the apps?
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.