The app is assisting professional meteorologists to develop accurate and precise forecast

Snow42 is a project of two amazing entrepreneurs who are inventing a whole system to prevent avalanches.

The main purpose is to create an app that helps to predict weather accurately and develop a precise forecast using simple and convenient interface.

The weather station interface is part of the system that helps predict avalanche danger, so the main challenge was to immediately provide for the flexibility of the application.

It is important to create a user friendly application for meteorologists that allows them to analyse a large amount of data using weather parameters.

Role

User Experience
UX Research
Visual Design

Industry

Meteorology

Client

Snow42

Year

2023-2024

Overview

Alexey and Mikhail decided to start with the creation of a high-precision meteorological station, which will later help to create accurate forecasts of weather conditions and especially the alternation of snow and rain in the spring.

While the customers were testing the weather stations in difficult conditions, I began to study the best practices in developing weather applications and planning interviews with potential users.

We had already worked with Alexey before, so the guys completely trusted my approach to creating applications.

By the time I started working on the project, I already had experience creating applications for equipment designed to conduct environmental monitoring.

That project was exciting
from the very beginning

Snow42 is a project of two amazing entrepreneurs who are inventing a whole system to prevent avalanches

Design process

1

2

User flow and Wireframes

UX Design

6 weeks

4 weeks

Moodboard and Hi-fidelity prototype

UI design

3

4

Competitor analysis and User Interviews

Research

4 weeks

Interactive Prototype

Presentation

1 weeks

Interview with users

The first stage of design process includes competitors analysis and User Interviews.

The initial task is to define everyday problems of meteorologists while observing parameters from weather stations and forecasting weather

Communicating the professionals and asking a lot of questions

92%

of users access the service via laptops or PC

"I would like to see the full range of information and to analyse it from different visual dashboards"

Taylor

"Incomprehensive navigation is confusing. I would like to customize the app to my needs"

Stephen

"I need to be able to check all the data shown in the form of graphs and charts, so I would like to download raw data from weather stations"

Amanda

"I need to analyse data of previous
period to develop more
precise forecast"

Karen

Visual Identity

The visual style is quite restrained, with colour accents only in the main controls and to indicate notifications.

Сolour as an assistant

Also, colour is used in graphs and tables to display the main parameters when making a forecast.

Tipography

Colours

UI Elements

Buttons

Icons

Weather conditions

Weather cards

Graphics and charts

Dashboard

The main tool for developing a forecast

Weather conditions are presented in 3 types: graphic, table and raw data.

This feature was implemented after user research, because meteorologists often analyse all data simultaneously.

It helps to see data in dynamic to predict weather trends.

Graphic section divided with 5 sections: wind speed and wind direction are united in one section for analysis.

Colour scheme serves to highlight and compare various weather parameters quickly.