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Good and Bad Design in Weather Apps
I've gone through multiple weather apps and am now defaulting to the Apple Weather app.
I used to like Intellicast. It forced me to upgrade to "Storm" It was related to both The Weather Underground and Intellicast, but they forced a change to "Storm Radar" by the Weather Channel.
I hear you! Why don't developers just leave a great piece of software alone? Transit.app was brilliant, until a redesign smooshed the map and the schedule into the same 'page'/screen (before you clicked to access the schedule). The effect was to cause unintended UI events whenever you try to explore the map. Maps always want to be large. Period. In over 5 years they still haven't learned this basic principle. The UI remains wonky.
The problem with software, especially software like a weather app which takes data from a third-party, is it frequently needs to be updated as the environment where it runs changes: OS updates, scripting library changes, and, of course, API changes. So, if software developers did nothing once they hit a home run with an app, eventually that app would degrade and finally fail to work properly at all due to lack of updates.
And I guess no one likes to update old software. They want to evolve it, which means redesign.
I wonder who it is who has the privilege of being the perceiver of perceived temperature? In how many spaces, inside or out, have you been where one person says "I'm cold" and another says "I'm comfortable"? That is, measured temperature seems to be the only common reference that all people can then interpret how they feel. Otherwise it is as if an opinion piece in the newspaper is perceived as fact.
I used to like Weather Underground [*], but they redesigned and turned it into a feemium GUI candy fest.
Have you tried Yr.no (Norwegian-based app)? https://apps.apple.com/jo/app/yr-no/id490989206