After a long hiatus, I have finally come back to writing on the blog (sorry guys!)  I have finally completed the app and it's layout.  I changed the homepage to having the navigation on the bottom instead of from a button on the top left.  This is because it would be more intuitive for navigation on the bottom since people right away know where to go for navigation.  The top left navigation button is very common, but since not everyone has experience with apps,  the bottom is the best place.

The center has the main feature, search for clinical studies.  You can either search for a key term in the search box, or refine your search by clicking on the filter buttons.  When you get to the search results page, there are options for advanced search filters such as age, gender, location, etc.

On the navigation bar, there are buttons for About us, which is general information on Mount Sinai and our app project.  Contact us is to contact our general team about questions regarding the app or clinical trials in general.  To contact about specific studies, there is another contact feature on each study allowing you to ask the investigators specific questions.  The FAQ is a frequently asked questions page that is pretty self explanatory.  It only includes questions in general for clinical trials and not for specific studies.  The sign up link allows you to sign up for updates with us in case you are unsatisfied with your search results.

The specific study page has finally been completed since last time! If you search for specific study pages on other websites you may find it to be filled with jargon and hard to navigate.  That is why we created the slideshow.  It has all the 6 basic question words as the slide titles being who, what, where, when, why, and how.  Each slide is designed to answer these basic questions about every study.  It will make it more complicated for researchers to post their studies but it's much better for patients!

If you are uninterested in flipping through a slideshow, then I guess you're out of luck. OH WAIT! You can just simply click the buttons below the slideshow for access to the information you would want in figuring out which study is for you.  It has its goal, its qualifications, contact information, study location, and more.
The tell me more page is organized very similarly to this page except instead of a slideshow, it has an explanatory video by the investigator of the study, and underneath it has buttons for the timeline, study procedures, informed consent page, and participant testimonials.  The informed consent page will contain all the jargon most of us hate, but it's required so I guess we have to deal with it.

Below I have included a few more screenshots of the app and how it should look.  I hope it passes the ultimate test on the app market and I get a bunch of phone calls begging me to work for them because of my genius (a man can dream).

I decided I didn't like the way the app interface from the previous design.  The introductory slideshow just wouldn't give the patients access to the information in a manner they would like.  I decided to go with a homepage that gave access to all the features of the website with a click of a button rather a slide of a slideshow.  This way, they can easily sift through the information at their leisure and know what information what about to be displayed, at least for the opening page.  For each individual study however, a slideshow can still be used.  The who, what where, when, why, and how model will allow for easy access to the information and knowing what was about to be shown.  For the website, the opening page can still have the introductory slideshow since that could be at the top of the page and have all the information below it.

This is the new home screen.  I like the quick access it offers to all the information they would need at the click of a button.  The color scheme can be changed adding a background image to make it more interesting.
I also decided on a color scheme for the whole app; the light blue and white alternating colors.  This was on Rebecca's suggestion to make the whole app a unanimous color scheme as most apps don't change that up for every page.