Dark Sky Interface Update

14 February 2012

Adam Grossman and Jack Turner’s weather predicting app, that we backed on Kickstarter, is starting to take shape.

Today they posted a screenshot of the iPhone interface.

The main interface component of the iPad version; the rain intensity timeline, has been compressed into the top third of the iPhone’s screen to make room for other information.

The middle of the interface consists of two horizontally stacked panels containing written descriptions of a) the current weather situation and b) what the next hour will bring.

Putting this information right in the middle of the screen, in prominent type, calls attention to the most important function of the app: Answering the questions, “Will I get rained on if I go outside now?”, and, “What about if I wait a while?”.

Smart move.

The bottom of the screen has a thin bar dedicated to location information. The compass icon on the left of the lower bar will presumably be for getting your current location, via GPS. The right panel of the lower bar has a text description of the currently selected location and a little cross icon, which seems a little confusing: I assume it’s for manually selecting a different location.

Looks like good progress to me.