Yahoo Weather

Purpose

Yahoo Weather was launched on mobile in Aug 2013, on iPad in Dec 2013, and on Apple Watch in Apr 2015. The photo editors selected high-quality city photos from Flick, which was acquired by Yahoo, and used them as the background for the city's weather information. The background photo was matched with the city's weather; a landscape photo of rain on a rainy day and a photo of snowing on a snowy day.

Roll

I was responsible for: Visual design, UI, and UX of the Yahoo Weather application, not only IOS but also Android. I was able to reinvent the dry information on weather, through curated photographs for background images and dynamic information design. Rather than being satisfied here, we added special weather effects (sunny, rain, snow, lightning, heatwave, fog, and frost effects) to the photos. This enabled users to feel as if they were looking out the window and intuitively grasp the weather.

Result

Yahoo weather App got design awards: Apple Design Award (2013), Apple App Store Best of 2014, Lovie Award in Europe (2014), Best Visual Design in Webby Award (2014), Bronze in IDEA (2014), Crunchies Awards (2013), etc.

Near-Term Forecast 

It was launched Aug 2015. Research to find the information needed by users continued. It started with the idea of helping users by letting them know that it is going to rain soon before going outside. Therefore users can bring their umbrellas. Yahoo Weather sends out a notification 15 minutes before rain or snow, and users can find near-term forecasts from the main screen with precipitation information.

Pollen  

We provided some ideas because serious issues about air quality are coming out. One of the ideas was about pollen which is a severe cause of allergies in the spring.

Apple Watch

Yahoo Weather was launched along with the first generation of the Apple Watch. At Apple's request, it had to be made in three weeks to launch alongside the first-generation Apple, and we did it.
The first-generation Apple Watch had many limitations, and the functions that could be implemented were limited. My engineer and I tried ways beyond the essential technical guide provided by Apple to adopt the dynamic layout and animation used in the existing Yahoo Weather app. So, when it was launched in Apr 2015, it received good reviews by providing more dynamic interaction than other applications. Seven years after its release, it is still voted the best weather app. (https://www.imore.com/best-weather-apps-apple-watch)

Yahoo Weather iPad

It was launched Dec 2013. The layout has been changed from vertical to horizontal to enjoy high-quality landscape photos of each city on the widescreen like a picture-framed picture. Useful weather information was added to utilize the widescreen, and the interaction was more dynamically updated to add fun elements.
Added a world map view that allows you to see the weather of the selected cities you are interested in at once. You can also view the weather for all cities by time zone at once through simple interaction.