Update #5: A couple things to show
Dark Sky update time! We've been hard at work on both the interface and the backend infrastructure, but we wanted to highlight two things:
1) The iPhone interface. You've seen the radar animation on the iPad in our original Kickstarter video, but now we'd like to show you what the app is starting to look like on the iPhone. We've also made some neat changes to the precipitation graph that we think make it clearer and easier to read. Check out the video of it in action here: http://vimeo.com/34575091
2) Now that the backend weather prediction magic is farther along, we've decided that we want to open it up to other developers. So we've created a short-term weather prediction API that we hope will be available around the same time the app comes out. If you or someone you know is a developer and you want to get in on a closed beta, let us know! We've written up a draft API spec here: http://darkskyapp.com/api/
Oh, also! We'll be sending out emails in a few weeks regarding t-shirt sizes and whatnot. So be on the lookout.
-Adam and Jack
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We're two guys, Jack Turner and Adam Grossman. We work as mild-mannered web / mobile developers, operating our company (Jackadam) out of an office in beautiful downtown Troy, NY. Visit our website, at http://jackadam.net
I like Luke's idea of having the original visualization (map + graph) in landscape and the new textual view in portrait. Regardless, I think presenting both views of the data on both iPhone and iPad is essential. I have an iPhone myself and I'd be sad if the added data gleaned from the overlaid graph was lost.
Kim: Yup, the graph will appear over both the original radar view and the new textual view.
I don't like the wobble. Maybe the lower probability could be less dark or cross-hatched.
Critiquing as a user interface-- wobbles mean you have to look at the screen for several seconds, and process the wobble - no wobble data and make an interpetation.