Hi Weather

Oct 2020
Collaborate with: Yeji Kim



Overview

I redesigned a weather app with my partner Yeji Kim. Our target users are children and our aim was to create a more delightful and understandable experience for children who are using this app. We added outfit suggestions and activity recommendations to our app to create more interactions with the children and build a concept of weather and temperature. We also applied a series of animation to make the experience more enjoyable and immersive.



Painpoints

Children usually do not have a concept of weather and temperature, especially for younger kids who have not learned any mathematics. They rely on their parents to make their outfit decisions and they might not know what are the most suitable activities based on the current weather condition. Our app reaches out to these pain points and solves these common problems among kids.



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Fitting Room Display




Activity Suggestion Display




Value Proposition

Affordance: Since our app was designed for children, we simplified our interfaces and made them really easy to read and interact with. We created a navigation bar on the bottom and users can shift between different pages by clicking on the buttons. We didn't make any subpages because the operation might be too complicated for kids.
Delightfulness: We created several interactive animations in this app to attract the kids' attention and arouse their interest in using this app. We also added sound effects to the fitting room while they click on different items of clothing and put them on. We thought the experience would be more fun and enjoyable.
Feedback: We thought the fitting room should give in-time feedbacks to our users to make the experience more engaging. We added this fitting room function in the form of a dress-up game.
Aesthetics: We wanted to make the app more friendly for children. So we basically used illustrated information as our content. The illustrations we picked were cute and lively. Our bouncing animation added more savor to the app. We created a vivid color scheme and the background color would change in response to the weather.
Learnability: The interactions and hierarchies of the app are very direct and simple. The users can find easily learn about how this app was structured and use it for different purposes.
Accessibility: We noticed that many kids could not read numbers, so numbers and other abstract indications might not be applied widely in our app. On our profile page, we used the image of different numbers on dices to make them select their age. We put a series of icons, illustrations, and colors to convey information about the weather and temperature.