Contest Title:	$1800 Lynx Calendar Wireframe Tournament Round 2
Client:	CockpitAdmin
Contest Type:	Web Design
1 Place:	$1,200.00
2 Place:	$350.00
3 Place:	$.00
4 Place:	$.00
5 Place:	$.00
Studio Cup Points:	155.0

Have questions about how to compete? Learn more here! The Lynx Calendar event planning tool is looking for a simple, efficient, and fun to use website that will help users connect with their friends and family. The Lynx Calendar web application will connect friends/family and events that interest them using an iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter.

This contest will be run in the Studio Tournament format. Please read the contest specification and watch the forums for any questions or feedback concerning this contest. 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.

Entries must be your original work, and must not infringe on the copyright or licenses of others. Stock art, clip art, templates and other design elements from other sources are prohibited unless specifically permitted here in the Contest Details.

In this contest you will be designing wireframes for both a web site and a facebook app. R1 will focus on the web site wireframe and R2 will focus on the facebook wireframe. Both are relatively small in scope. The iPhone wireframe contest is NOT part of this contest.

Round 1
At the end of Round 1 on May 25, 2009, Lynx Calendar will choose five (5) Round 1 winners, each will win $50 and a Design Review. These winners and any member who had a passing submission in round one will be eligible to compete in Round 2 for the additional $1550 in prizes.

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We are now in Round 2 - if you did not submit to Round 1 you are not eligible to compete in this contest.

Congratulations Round 1 Winners on your $50 Prizes. Submissions looked great!
20248 - cupuabis
20249 - systic
20216 - oton
20247 - f4r1

Round 2 General Feedback
1. Submissions were generally simple and easy to use. Thank you!
2. Advertising - include sponsored events in the upper right most frame. We are planing on advertising scheme similar to Google. Likewise top 2 displayed events should contain sponsor markings.

Round 2 Overall Changes:

There are some of the larger changes that need to go into effect. More details can be found in the contest posting.
1. We are injecting the use of geolocation information in round 2.
2. The default website needs to be usable without a login. Default location set on ip geolocation. Page needs to display events by sorted by distance, date, and time from location.
3. We removed the distinction between a commercial member and a free user.
4. Moving to email posting for events as well as Facebook and Twitter.
5. Basic event search/filter and display event should be combined. Search/filter will be done with the use of sorting column capabilities.
6. An "advanced search" capability is needed.


There were some changes to the web application. Please incorporate these changes into your next round.

Round 2 Details
The goal of Round 2 is to develop the wireframe of a facebook application using the knowledge of the wireframe contest in Round 1 as well as ideas gleaned from the recent Lynx Calendar Text Conceptualization contest (http://forums.topcoder.com/?module=ThreadList&forumID=528268).

Round 2 Deliverables:
A working wireframe application depicting both the Webpage and Facebook application portions of the Lynx Calendar. Wireframes are only visual maps of the flow of pages/screens and nothing more. Any functionality beyond a simple click-through will be scoped out in later contests.

Uniformity:
Please keep in mind that we are looking for the same look and feel across the Facebook and Web applications. In this round, the following components should be very closly related if not identical.
- Map used to display user location and event locations.
- Event display (rows and columns) should appear and behave (multi-sort by column)
- Gui Dialogs should be identical

Facebook Workflow Functionality:
The Facebook application should have all of the same features of the web application except for the login/ authentication system. We will be using the Facebook authentication scheme.


Web Workflow Functionality
The attached workflows ("Round2_Workflows.doc") are mandatory for the web application. Note, these have changed as we have incorporated suggestions from both Round 1 and our Text Conceptualization contest.

Wireframe Resources
Wireframes on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_site_wireframe
Wireframe software option: www.axure.com
Example Wireframe: http://www.gdoss.com/web_info/web-site-wireframe.php


Wireframe Requirements
Deliverable needs to be HTML/CSS. The HTML must be clean. Poorly generated code is unacceptable.

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Round 1 Deliverables:A working wireframe application depicting the Web application portion of the Lynx Calendar. Your submission, at a minimum, must include wireframes for the following functionality:

• Basic User Workflow
• Basic User Event Search
• Commercial User Workflow
• User Profile Management
• User Statistics panel
• Basic Administrative Functionality
• Paid Usage Workflow
• Order Processing For Paying Users

Basic User Workflow Consists of:

• New User arrives on site and clicks on a create account button.
• User creates an account.
• User logs in with new information.
• Selects Google Calendar,Outlook, Facebook Calendar, iCal, Twitter to synchronize
• Enters in FB account informaiton
• Synchronizes Contacts in FB
• Enters Twitter account information
• Create events
• Tags event as private or invite/open to friends, or invite/open to Public, or block friends from seeing event.
• Post to twitter/ facebook/calendar
• Searches for Events
• Display Events - Clickable

Basic User Event Search:

• Search for events by distance, type of event, key words or number/name of friends attending. date/time/distance/location/event type/event name/friends attendance.
• Must support multiple row searching
• 1 event summary per row. I will click on the event to see details.

Paid Usage Workflow:

• User logs in
• If they more than x many events per month, there's a utlization fee.
• Users can pay $x to "differentiate"/advertise their event.
• Can track number of posted events in user statistics

Order Processing For Paying Users:

• Stub out the following features: order processing

User Profile Management:

• User must be able to edit their profiles

Basic Administrative Functionality:

• Stub out the following features: user admin/event admin/commercial admin/ etc

Event Attributes:

• publisher name
• event published
• event type
• event name
• location
• date
• time
• distance (all of which are search criteria).

Who is your target audience?

• Our target audience is the 175 million users of facebook, all iphone owners, and anyone connected to the web. Our aim is to target anyone who wants to keep in touch with family and friends and update them on what they?re doing or find out what events are scheduled/going on near them at anyplace and anytime.

What are your primary goals for this design?

• Our primary goal is to connect people and events. On your phone and on facebook you have hundreds of friends and family and you always want to do something. Our goal is to sort the chaos. With lynxcalendar you will be able to find events around you anytime of the day or night and find out which friends are going there. If you don't much care where you go and just want to be out and the criteria falls with which 'better' friends are where then you can search events by friends. Also, if you want to keep in touch with family and want to know if there are any birthdays, graduations, showers, etc. search by family members for events posted. Of course when you post you have the choice of who to make your event open to. Our goal is to have all family and friends linked together and their events posted.

How will your design stand out from your competitors?

• We would like for LynxCalendar to convey a sense of simplicity, efficiency, and fun.

• The way we will stand out from our competitors will be in the way that we link everything together. People will be able to import events from facebook as well as manually enter their events in FB/ Iphone.

• While we are emphasizing the fact that we are related to Facebook and Twitter and want our own flair - simplicity is what were aiming for.

Branding Guidelines:
We want to super connect friends, family, and events. The competitors must consider that. The competitors must consider that we plan to have an app for Iphone and facebook that all interconnect with our site. They must also consider that our page represents simplicity, efficiency, and fun.

Judgement Criteria:Wireframe submission will be judged on how well it presents and logically flows through the following items:

• Basic User Workflow
• Basic User Event Search
• User Profile Management
• User Statistics panel
• Basic Administrative Functionality
• Paid Usage Workflow
• Order Processing For Paying Users