Armstrong Rewards

This project required the development of a website designed to solve one of the oldest problems in business… how to motivate the sales team, improve their product knowledge and increase their numbers. As an Incentive Team developer I created this site for our client Armstrong® Flooring.

Incentive Website Development

The website’s purpose is to offer registered users/participants the ability to earn points by performing various sales oriented tasks on the site. Some of these tasks include:

• Completing training courses that focus on Armstrong® products
• Completing the monthly challenge by submitting a story
• Entering sales and uploading invoices
• Logging into site a specific number of times in a month

The main website runs in a Coldfusion environment driven by MySQL. Accessing the live site requires a user account. The demo site on this server runs in a LAMP environment and does not require an account.

Please note that the Armstrong® logo, trademark and brand is the sole property of the Armstrong® Flooring corporation.

Planning the Website

This website required the following elements:

1. A user login page containing session start script and links to a “Forgot Password” page and a “User Registration” page
2. A home page containing main navigation and widgets containing links to other pages
3. A “spin the wheel” overlay as incentive to complete training courses
4. A shopping cart to house items that participants can purchase with accrued points
5. A large MySQL database to house the following:
   • Participant data such as profile information, sales data, points earned, courses taken and supervisor/store information
   • Data regarding each Armstrong® product eligible for the incentive program such as SKU and model number, available colors, finishes and styles available, etc.
   • Data regarding shopping cart items that participants can purchase with accrued points

I went for crisp and clean typography, using the sans-serif font ‘Arial’ throughout the site. The color palette is based on the colors of the main Armstrong® Flooring website.

I put together some initial wireframes representing branding and widget locations. The goal of each incentive site that we create is to provide a portal-style home page that showcases monthly promotions, a monthly challenge, the participant’s current point count and wishlist item and links to training courses the participant has yet to complete.

Designing the visuals

Now that we had some wireframes, our color palette and the database in place, it was time to work on the look and feel. I wanted the aesthetic to be simple and focus on content and typography. Much of the hard work had already been done creating the wireframes. Then I worked on the image assets. All images were optimized to the smallest file size possible via TinyPNG.

Mission Accomplished

Achieving the common goals of a company is a team effort. To be successful, everyone has to be on board. While cooperation and enthusiasm levels are usually high at the onset, maintaining that same motivation and drive along the way is no easy task. At Incentive Team… we know how to keep things interesting.