Design Practice Challenge - Design a User Profile Screen

Welcome to the "Design Practice Challenge - Design a User Profile Screen"!

This challenge is created specifically for you, our new member, to learn/practice and get started with Design Competitions at Topcoder by participating and submitting to this very simple challenge where we are asking you to create a single design screen that shows a user’s profile information. You are free to create the design using design tools like Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch, or Photoshop! 

Make sure you register for the challenge and then read more details below and let us know if you have any doubts or questions in The Challenge Forum!
Topcoder Design competitions provide coverage for a full range of design needs, from responsive and mobile application user experience to marketing collateral creation and support. To be specific, there are seven types of design challenges that we offer in the Design track:

• Application Front End Design
• Web Design
• Widget or Mobile Screen Design
• Wireframes
• Print/Presentation
• Design First2Finish
• Idea Generation

You must ensure your design submission addresses all the requirements mentioned in the challenge specification, and ensure your design follows the best practice for the specific interface or devices. 

Topcoder design challenges usually offer cash prizes for the three top winners and five checkpoint winners, and sometimes beyond that for special challenges like RUX (five top winners and eight rolling checkpoint winners) or LUX (eight top winners and eight rolling checkpoint winners).

In this practice challenge, we bring a basic Design Challenge for you so that you can adapt and get accustomed to the challenge phases.

Each design challenge goes through the following time period phases:

• Registration - Duration in which you can register for the challenge
• 1st Round/Checkpoint Submission - Duration in which you can submit according to round one requirements 
• Checkpoint Screening - Duration in which a Topcoder Screener will check your checkpoint design submission 
• Checkpoint Review - Duration in which DRB and client will review submissions from round one and provide feedback 
• 2nd Round/Final Submission - Duration in which all first-round submitters can submit design work after applying the checkpoint feedback received from DRB and Client

After your final submission, the following phases take place: Final Screening, Final Review, Final Fixes, and Approval.

The majority of design challenges at Topcoder usually use the two-round format unless it is a one-round type challenge such as a Design First2Finish, Rapid User Experience (RUX), or Live User Experience (LUX)

For more help, we have a Detailed Guide about how to compete in a Design Challenge or check out This Video.

Make sure you register for the challenge and then read more details below and let us know if you have any doubts or questions in The Challenge Forum!

OVERVIEW

• Create a single UI Design Screen for any web device for a user’s profile.

CHALLENGE REQUIREMENTS
Please make sure to create and include the following requests in the User Profile screen:

• Name and Profile Picture such that the audience can easily recognize the user.
• About to give some brief information about the user.
• Skills and Specialization to emphasize a user’s strength.
• Profile links linking to user’s other important and relevant websites (Facebook, Twitter, Dribbble, Github, etc)
• You can check a sample of Topcoder existing user profiles to get an idea Here 
• Feel free to use and copy content from Topcoder’s Profile Page and create your own version for the user profile screen
• Quotes? Hobbies? Interest? Etc? Feel free to add as many details as you want to make your design better!

TARGET AUDIENCE

• Topcoder members that want to know about you and your history at Topcoder
• Potential clients that want to know about your skills and achievement at Topcoder before they hire you

JUDGING CRITERIA SCORE

• Creativity: 8
  • [1: barely new ideas]
  • [10: a utopic product with features not proven to be able to be fully implemented]
• Aesthetics: 10
  • [1: low-fidelity design, wireframe or plain sketch]
  • [10: top-notch finished looking visual design]
• Exploration: 7
  • [1: strictly follow an existing reference or production guideline]
  • [10: open to alternative workflows/features not listed here that would help the overall application]
• Branding: 10
  • [1: don’t care at all about the branding just functionality]
  • [10: without a properly branded product there is no success]

BRANDING GUIDELINES

• Open to Designers (Font, Colors, Style, etc)

TARGET DEVICES

• Web App: Minimum 1440px width with height adjusted accordingly

FINAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

• All original source files created in Adobe XD, Adobe Photoshop, Figma, or Sketch
• Marvel Prototype:
  • Upload your screens to Marvel App
  • Ask for Marvel Prototype access in the challenge forum
  • Include your Marvel App URL as a text file in your final submission. Label the file as “MarvelApp URL”

WHAT NEXT?

• Visit Topcoder Challenge Listing Page and filter by the track Design to see all the available Design Challenges.
• Participate in future Design Challenges (which have their own cash prizes), gather TCO points towards Design Track and stand a chance to win the ‘TCO20 Design Champion’ Title and a whopping $10,000 cash prize.