Challenge App Leaderboard
2012
Design
The evolution of the leaderboard I designed for the Challenge App. The Photoshop comps (color images) were created by Jacob Morse. Alas, we never had time to complete the "leaderbot" mascot, shown at the end.
- Challenge App Leaderboard
- This project was about information design. Below is the evolution of the interactive "leaderboard" I designed for the Challenge App while working for Dynamo Labs. Designer Jacob Morse did the Photoshop comps.Dynamo Labs was a first-round recipient of Facebookâs fbFund, a $10 million grant fund established by Founders Fund, Accel Partners and Facebook.
The finished product. The purpose of Challenge App is to help friends track and share their progress toward common goals, like losing weight or training for a marathon. Because, as we all know, peer pressure and accountability are the best motivators.
The traditional concept of a leaderboard. Useful as a starting point, but how can you improve it to convey the full story, not just the sum total of progress, but also the individual battles (i.e. progress updates) on the way to completing a goal? How can you incorporate gaming principles to make it fun and engaging? And how can you do all this without overwhelming the user?
Alas, we never had time to finish "Leader-Bot", the Challenge App mascot.
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