What Are Design Challenges?

Topcoder Design Challenges 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.

PROPERLY DECLARING YOUR FILES

• You MUST declare every single design file and element from your submission including: fonts, icons, and stock art that were not created by you so that we can track and take care of the administration for those files before handing the final design deliverables to the client.
  Any 3rd party design files and elements MUST comply and follow our Policy Rules (see Fonts, Icons and Stock Art policy for more details). DO NOT use any design files and elements that are not approved by Topcoder in your design.

• Do not add your username or personal information in your declaration files, keep it anonymous.

• You can use this Declaration Files Template as a base to declare your design files (download it as a pdf, replace the content with your design files and elements in a text editor, and upload it with your design submission).

• Be specific when you declare your design files, do not just add generic information. For example, do not put “I’m using this picture from google.com”, this will result in a failed screening for your submission. Provide as much detail as possible about your 3rd party design in the declaration files.

• For any design files and elements that belong and come from the client, put a note in the template that those files were provided by the client.