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Hello all. I just launched a side project that I have been working on for that past year: https://www.studydesign.io/

StudyDesign.io provides statisticians and data scientists tools to design studies with a focus on clinical trials. My goal with this site is to move the tools from very expensive Windows PC based programs to a website that the user could use from anywhere.

I would appreciate any feedback that you have on the site, especially the presentation.

Chris Louden

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    Hey louden!

    First of all - congrats on your launch!

    I’m not really in the target demographic, so take everything I say with a grain of salt, but here are my first impressions:

    • Landing page seems a bit unfocused, no clear hierarchy
    • Explain what it does better
    • make the examples more prominent. What if they were interactive? Can you animate them the way you do on the calculators?
    • Overall it’s not very good looking (you’re using Bootstrap, right?) but with some small CSS tweaks you could make it look way better (get in touch if you’d like a hand with that)
    • The site doesn’t work at all without adding www to the front
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      Thanks! This is exactly what I'm looking for. I will work on these things.

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    Sounds like an exciting project. Care to share the backstory to how you started working on this?

    I'll keep the feedback to constructive criticism for brevity's sake and not include any duplicate feedbacks from other comments:

    • Design: Your <p> font size is too small and the blocks of text are too wide in the case of your first section of text on the landing page. 50-75 characters per line (including spaces) is considered optimal for legibility.
    • The name: study design sounds like a service where you can study design - this may or may not be a problem for you, depending on how well you can target the service to informed potential users who instantly think of designing scientific studies when they see the name.
    • Streamline your study design process is a weak value proposition. Save {amount} of time/money/pain in your study design process is a better starting point.

    Good luck and congrats on getting something out into the real world!

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      Thank you for the feedback!

      I have been involved in the design of dozens of clinical trials and scientific studies. The toolsets that we use are primarily Windows based (some are even DOS based) and very expensive. I wanted to make something to help design these studies that was easy to use, accessible and reasonably priced.