For this project, we revisited the design system used for the first UWS website and updated it slightly to reflect a more modern, bolder UI. The key to the success of this project was to ensure that all of the Questions, structure and conditional logic made sense for both the user and the researchers. We worked extensively with the project team at UWS to ensure, from an end-user perspective, that the data capture was as simple and easy to follow as possible.

We designed the interface as a multi-step form and used embedded repeaters to capture the initial user information which is then used later in the form to autogenerate new sections of questions. Users could also add in additional fields ‘on-the-fly’ to include ailments and symptoms that had not been considered in the design process.

Here is an example of one step which includes the option to include additional symptoms:

This was an excellent project to collaborate on and we look forward to seeing the benefit to UWS and the associated research publications which will hopefully help us all understand better how Covid-19 is affecting public health in the medium to long term.