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! 30 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 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 iPhone experience.
Problem: The Modern Gardener
In this time of Covid, many people are trying their hand at gardening and becoming passionate about growing their food - vegetables, fruits, herbs, etc. Information about the different types of plants, seeds, and bugs is critical to a successful garden. It is also essential to understand what plants grow fast, need more water, and survive in their local climate. The modern gardener is just learning, and they often want to experiment but don't know enough about plants and how to set them up, fertilize, and maintain them.
With a knowledge assisted library (mobile application), gardeners will solve the problem of retrieving information for their desired harvest on the go. Imagine that you have a plant and you want to know the best time to plant it, fertilize it, how often to water it, what plants are useful to grow next to it, how to keep the bugs off it, what time of year does it grow best (spring, early or late fall), etc.
Design Challenge: Plant identifier
A user could use their phone camera to analyze a plant, a flower, a seed, or a bug to recognize and learn more. The application would show information about the item and make a range of recommendations (based on your location). (e.g., if it is a viable plant for your climate.
User flow (screens are up to you) to capture:
Note: You have 30 minutes, so make the most of it.
Design & Branding Guidelines
Submission Format Requirements
Target Audience
dentifying 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! 30 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 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 iPhone experience.
Problem: The Modern Gardener
In this time of Covid, many people are trying their hand at gardening and becoming passionate about growing their food - vegetables, fruits, herbs, etc. Information about the different types of plants, seeds, and bugs is critical to a successful garden. It is also essential to understand what plants grow fast, need more water, and survive in their local climate. The modern gardener is just learning, and they often want to experiment but don't know enough about plants and how to set them up, fertilize, and maintain them.
With a knowledge assisted library (mobile application), gardeners will solve the problem of retrieving information for their desired harvest on the go. Imagine that you have a plant and you want to know the best time to plant it, fertilize it, how often to water it, what plants are useful to grow next to it, how to keep the bugs off it, what time of year does it grow best (spring, early or late fall), etc.
Design Challenge: Plant identifier
A user could use their phone camera to analyze a plant, a flower, a seed, or a bug to recognize and learn more. The application would show information about the item and make a range of recommendations (based on your location). (e.g., if it is a viable plant for your climate.
User flow (screens are up to you) to capture:
- A user acquires a new seed from a neighbor and doesn't know what it is.
- They open the Modern Gardener, and it can scan the seed to take a picture quickly.
- The user receives a screen with an identification of the seed. It provides insights into the plant. (e.g., Plant name, lifecycle, watering cycle, sunlight exposure cycles, bugs that may harm it, and recommendations on any next steps based on your location)
Note: You have 30 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
- Native iPhone Application
- MarvelApp: 1125px x 2436px
- Challenge 1 Marvelapp project is called “TCO Challenge2”.
Target Audience
- The Modern Gardener
dentifying 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. Round 1 Marvelapp project is called “TCO Challenge2” 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.