I had a change of heart of what to work on today. Instead of exploring other app building tools, I am going to explore survey apps. A lot of what IBDPromise is about is data extraction. The purpose of building the app is to make it easy for patients to record their symptoms. I am hoping to come up with new ways to approach this goal by replicating apps that to collect data.
What I found as I started this search was really interesting. There are many free survey apps that pay you to fill out their ready made surveys. While I haven't found a gold mine (it's $0.05-$0.25 a survey) in just this research I racked up earnings of about $1.45!
My first finding is that all of these apps only ask one question per page. The surveys contained anywhere from 4-20 questions, and each had a different way for the user to proceed.
What I found as I started this search was really interesting. There are many free survey apps that pay you to fill out their ready made surveys. While I haven't found a gold mine (it's $0.05-$0.25 a survey) in just this research I racked up earnings of about $1.45!
My first finding is that all of these apps only ask one question per page. The surveys contained anywhere from 4-20 questions, and each had a different way for the user to proceed.
 App: "survey" |  App: "datafield" |  App: "surveys" |
In the app on the left, the green bar on the top tracks how much of the survey has been completed. As I went through surveys on this app, I found submitting information to be simple and straightforward. After selecting my answer, I could always look to the top right corner to get to the next question while the green bar gave me an idea of how much more I had to go. In the app "datafield" I created my own survey to investigate the different types of data entry that are available. The sliding scale that is shown has a bubble that explains what each position represents. I was hoping to use a similar feature for our app when asking the SIBDQ. For this app, there was no progress bar and I think that makes it more difficult to use. The last screenshot is a third app that includes a percent completion in its "progress bar." I liked this design the best as it produces the feeling of a "location," which is an important notion in design.
While the app datafield did not have a progress bar, there were a lot of other great features we can replicate. This app used visual aid to make the questions and answers more clear. This addition makes inputting information easier, making the process go faster (as it takes less effort on my part) and in turn will make me more likely to complete the survey. I is important to pick up on tools like these because the success in IBDPromise depends on minimal user effort when putting in information.
Sorry for the stream of conscious but there is one last point I want to highlight. All of these apps showed consistency. The layout of each page was the same and there was therefore no need to re-orient once moving through the app. I have been playing with a lot of different designs for IBDPromise and I will have to settle on one template design for all the questions that will exits continuously throughout the app.
Sorry for the stream of conscious but there is one last point I want to highlight. All of these apps showed consistency. The layout of each page was the same and there was therefore no need to re-orient once moving through the app. I have been playing with a lot of different designs for IBDPromise and I will have to settle on one template design for all the questions that will exits continuously throughout the app.
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