Mid-‐West region, it’s apparent that most of the people use some kind of weather applica6on on their phone. • A free applica6on on the “Google Play” Appstore. • Received reviews from more than 35,000 users.* • Provides a range of features that increases the margin for improvements. * Google Play
when people leave their home, office, restaurant or any other place that involves coming out of a building and going to another place. • Also when they travel by car or public transport. • Users are heavily dependent on the accuracy and presentation of the weather information since they plan accordingly. • The scope of this project is to redesign the whole interface of the app to meet the user requirements and provide them an intuitive user experience but without changing the source of weather information.
based applica6on, the methods involving contextual inquiry or just interviews doesn’t provide much data and may invade users’ privacy. • Combina6on of Diary study, Online post usage ques6onnaire and short personal interviews are used in this project. • Users involved in the study – 4 • Every night a reminder sms was sent to every user.
documented by the users throughout the 2 weeks of app’s usage: • The app crashed when viewing a content heavy sec6on • The users couldn’t find various important naviga6onal menus and also were unable to figure out some interac6on techniques • They were annoyed with the Ad at the boYom of the screen • Since the app was tested during the month of heavy snowfall, users were oZen interested in the snowfall amount to be fallen in the coming days
baYery of the users • Many sec6ons of the app were confusing and presented advanced data to the users • Almost all the users were impresses by the anima6ons • They wanted a more intui6ve customiza6on op6ons • Some users were struggling to use the map view since it provides many op6ons and the icons were mul6-‐ func6onal • Some6mes, the temperature shown wasn’t accurate
diary study, I came to know about the App crashing for some of the users and from the cultural model, it is clear that the Android OS framework or the smartphone is the biggest influencer for the successful running of 1Weather app. So, this app must run on Android OS above 2.2 and with all phone screens’ sizes greater than 3.5 inches.
on the diary study and the interviews, the users complaint about the irrelevant informa6on present in the App. The flow model clarifies the informa6on flow to and fro between the users and the app. So, the app should strip down on some of the highly intellectual data or provide the user to select from a basic or advance seang. • Should provide users the commonly used icons and interac6ons and not the 3-‐dot drop down menu. The sequence model depicts the importance of the various icon sets used in the applica6on and how they were seminal in the comple6on of the tasks at hand.
model, the adver6sers request user informa6on through the app and provide relevant ads to them. These Ads shouldn’t obstruct the users or distract them from doing their tasks as seen from the diary study. The placement of the ads should be away from the important controls of the app as shown in the physical model. • Since the weather forecas6ng base sta6on are he main source of the weather informa6on, as shown in the flow model, they should provide with the accurate data to the app developers or the developers should constantly monitor data from mul6ple sources for accuracy. • The app should be easy to use by the users and provide customizable widgets.
baYery much and is op6mized for smartphone’s usage. • The app should display the snowfall informa6on or any relevant informa6on based on the environment in which the user is opera6ng the app. This can be supported by the presence of external environment in the flow model and the reason for breakdown in the sequence model as well.
users are one of the main influencers as seen in the cultural model and an important part of the flow, they should know how to operate an android-‐based smartphone and install & update apps regularly. • They must also make sure that the phone is connected to the Internet when using or refreshing 1Weather applica6on.
Consider you are using a high-‐end smartphone which has mul6ple applica6ons opened in the background. Your phone is 2 years old so the baYery life is not that great. You uses the 1Weather app regularly but since you are in front of your laptop most of the 6me, you just view the weather every hour. Set the refresh rate of the applica6on to 1 hour and locate the individual update op6ons to refresh the app manually. • Task 2: You have just finished with your classes at 1pm and wanted to have some lunch. It’s cloudy outside and may rain too. Look for the weather from 1:00pm to 1:30pm to check the precipita6on rate and note the 6ming when it is least likely to rain.
affordance of some of the elements in the interface such as in the map view. • The user expected the maps to be more interac6ve and with more func6ons to play with. • Some users wanted to have the advanced op6on right away instead of selec6ng it from the drop down seangs menu
so that the users would know what is clickable on the maps. • Provide a self adap6ve interface to the users so that the more tech savvy users get the advanced op6ons right away. • Make the map view sec6on more fluid and playful. • Improve upon the overall interface of the applica6on to meet the ever changing needs of the users.
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