Mobile Weather App Site Plan

Purpose

The client would like a web based weather app created. The purpose of the site is to give current weather conditions in 3 different ways. The initial landing page will give the weather for the current location based on the Geocoding information given by the browser. The second is weather for 3 specific locations accessible through a dedicated link, and the third is weather for any location determined by a search string.

Audience

Primary audience is adults ages 18-30. Most will be students. Access to the site will be split between mobile devices and laptops.

Audience Goals:

College students move around quite a bit so one goal would be to quickly get the weather conditions for their current location as they head off to class or study. They are also often far from their homes so the ability to quickly get the conditions for a specific location is important as well. The third goal deals with planning for travels...the ability to get weather conditions for any location will help with last minute packing for road trips.

Personas

Joe Cool Lucy van Pelt

Content

All weather pages should include Location name, temperature, high, low, current weather descriptor, precipitation, and wind on small, and hourly temps should be added on larger screens. (See provided weather data file for more details)

Pages

  1. Home: weather for the current location. Current location should be determined by using the Geolocation API of the browser. This information should be passed to the WeatherUnderground API (https://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/) to retrieve the current conditions.
  2. Franklin, Greenville, Springfield: weather for each specific location. The weather for The Franklin and Greenville pages should be pulled from a local JSON file that will be provided.
  3. Search: Begins with only a search box, characters entered will cause a list of suggested matches to appear. Selected location will pull up the weather. The search term from the field should be sent to the WeatherUnderground autocomplete API(https://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/docs?d=autocomplete-api&MR=1), and the results used to pull the current conditions for the selected location.

Styles

Branding

The client provided the following initial concept for a name and logo: (You recognize that this logo could easily be re-created entirely with CSS using the right font and HTML entities… ⚀ ⚅)

Feeling Lucky

Typography

The client also expressed interest in the following fonts:


Heading Font:Sansita From Google Fonts

Letters
Heading Example

Body Copy Font: Helvetica

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k l m n o p q r s š t u v w x y z ž 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ‘ ? ’ “ ! ” ( % ) [ # ] { @ } / & < - + ÷ ×=
> ® © $ € £ ¥ ¢ : ; , . *

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Colors

terquoise Red Yellow Red
Primary: #A6D8DB Secondary: #F07C6C Accent1: #E7EF61 Accent2: #47556F

Elements

(add usability note on each element)

Navigation

Navigation Bar

Link:normal : #4A4653
Link:visited : #4A4653
Link:hover : #E7EF61
Link:active : #A6D8DB

Opaque rounded content box:

Gray Box

background-color: rgba(200,200,200,.6);
margin: .2em auto;
border: 1px solid;
border-radius: 5px;

Wire Frames

Small Screen

Mobile Screen

Large Screen

Large Screen

Greenville Redesign

Small Wireframe

Large Screen

Large Wireframe

Large Screen

Colors

Primary

#804615

Secondary

#D49B6A

Background

#F07C6C

Header Font: Amatic SC

Body Copy Font: Open Sans Condensed

A B C Ć Ć Č D Đ E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S Š T U V W X Y Z Ž a b c č ć d đ e f g h i j
k l m n o p q r s š t u v w x y z ž 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ‘ ? ’ “ ! ” ( % ) [ # ] { @ } / & < - + ÷ ×=
> ® © $ € £ ¥ ¢ : ; , . *

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Zoe's Comments

"Your body font is a little too decorative. It would be a better font for your header. Also your header font isn't there. Your colors are a little monotone. I would suggest an accent that would add more color."