Case Study - My RCSI Royal College of Surgeons Ireland

Our Design, Build & Manage strategy was implemented at each stage of the project development. In this case, specific guidelines in line with the current RCSI style and branding guidelines was a priority alongside a clean and simple design. This would ensure easy navigation for students using the app. 

There were four main components in the project: 

1. Web-based content editor – provides authorized users access to the content to edit and publish updates
2. Web API – provides an interface to manipulate all the content in the system from the web browser or read it from the mobile application.
3. Web site – provides browser-based view of the content and categories for students and other personae.
4. Mobile application – consumer application that reads content from the API.

A fully functioning cross platform mobile application based on the Xamarin framework  was proposed for the mobile application. Xamarin Forms was chosen as the framework as it allowed the same design to be used to target both the iOS and Android platforms and had a high degree of reuse. The mobile application would synchronise data from a bespoke web-based content management system. This system facilitated the editing and publication of content, allowing any updates to be category, duration and location specific. Authentication and authorization of users on the system was enabled through integration with Azure Active Directory enabling a SSO solution that fit well with RCSI’s infrastructure policy.