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I love the design of the app and the price is great too 😄. One question though: your website says that your goal was the answer questions like "should I bike to work today", maybe I'm reading too far into this, but how is your data and app any better at this than something like Dark Sky (besides the price)? With Dark Sky, I can even set custom notification settings for rain likelihood, etc.
@aldenmarshall Hi Alden, thanks, and good question! When we used Dark Sky (and other apps with multiple different screens and abundant detail)...we found it was hard to make quick decisions without digging through the many chunks of information, a lot of which was often irrelevant at that particular moment, or buried away in secondary screens.
So our goal was to show all the most important stuff in one place, so you don't need to poke around. There are a few ways we did that. First, we show the most critical details for Right now / The next few hours / This week, in one compact view, so you can just see it all right there. And second, we include extra details contextually only when it's relevant. So if it's unusually windy, you'll see wind speed. If it's foggy, you'll see visibility distance. If there's an alert, you'll see it, etc.
There's also something subconsciously awesome about those charts — you can see trends and immediately spot when the coldest / wettest / hottest day will be. So if you're planning a trip, you'll know not to pick that gross cold and snowy Tuesday. It's not obvious when you look at it for the first time, but once you start using it you'll see what I mean.
Hope that clears things up a little!
@jonasdowney Thanks for the clarification! I love the idea of contextual information and will keep an eye out for them as I use the app more. Looking forward to see where this app progresses to!
What David said - beautiful app!! One thing I'd like to see is an option to see both the low and high temperatures for the week at the same time vs. one or the other. Great as it is though!!
@nostradamion hey Damion, thank you! We tried showing lows at the same time, but found it wasn't all that useful, and made the design more complicated. (You can see those experiments in this post: https://medium.com/@jonasdowney/...) Maybe someday I'll come up with a better way to show them simultaneously though :D
I have been a big fan of the design decisions from folks at Basecamp. This is a side project from a couple of designers @ Basecamp and they wrote a cool story about it here https://medium.com/@jonasdowney/.... I really dig the funky rounded font used in BC3, KnowYourCompany and this app.
What a lovely weather app! Looking smart and essential, with the right amount of weather info. Got one feature request though: besides support for the international Celcius and kilometers system can you guys add the international 24-Hour Time format?
I really like this but there is a mistake in the settings of the app. It says Choose fahrenheit and Miles for US and Celsius and Kilometers for International. US generally uses fahrenheit yes but it uses Killometers not miles. In the UK we use Celsius and Miles but there is no option for that?
@peskygeek Thanks for the comment! In the US, Farenheit+Miles is the common format, but you're right we're missing Celsius+Miles for the UK. (Heard that from a few other people as well.) We're looking into adding that, so keep an eye out for it in a future update!
I like many, if not all, of the things other people have mentioned but it has that one annoying thing a lot of weather apps do, which is it seems to only work when GPS is on. I only use GPS when using maps so it's annoying that this asks me for it when I've saved my frequent locations already. Why not offer the option for it to function without GPS?
@tangandhara we may add the ability to start the app without Location Services on in the future. It'd require a bit of a redesign since we designed it to be as frictionless as possible (load the app, and then immediately see weather for where you are.) I'm totally sympathetic to Location Services feeling a bit creepy though—we don't do anything with location data other than retrieve the forecast for you.
For now if this bothers you, there is a way to turn off Location Services and still use the app. Turn it on, load the app, then add a location and switch to it. After that, you can turn off LS and the app will still work, since it automatically loads whatever your last selected location was.
One of the best weather apps I've tried so far. Everything I need in one place within a reasonable load time. To top it off it's free as well. Certainly wouldn't mind paying a few dollars such a nicely done app. Would love to see some pollen info as Poncho does. Also, for precipitation it would help to see if it's going to rain or snow than just simple precipitation %.
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