Weather Data
Making the all-too-familiar information more approachable

Faculty Leads:
Tomoko Ichikawa
Jody Campbell

Teaching Assistants:
Rachel Huvard
Cagla Kuzu

Class:
Introduction to Visual Communication

Students:
Aamena Ansari
Samar Anwar
Rodrigo Dyer
Samar Elhouar
Lizzy Engele
Jessie Gao
Hugo Hsiao
Noah Keppers
Evija Kristopane
Eddie Kure
Shinichiro Kuwahara
Stephanie Meng
Anand Nagapurkar
Veronica Paz Solden
Zack Schwartz
Faye Sun
Pukka Tackie
Julian Walker
Alison Yang
Minyi Zhang

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Viewing a sea of numbers in a weather report is uninviting. Foundation students exercised their newfound visualization skills to make everyday data more approachable. As a result, readers can perform information tasks more easily, such as comparisons between geographical locations, between days, and between high and low temperatures. The addition of icons and use of typographical hierarchy together improve the scannability of the data.

The ID Foundation program at the Institute of Design welcomes students with no design background. Students take Foundation classes in Communication, Product, and Interaction Design, together with Photography, to become versatile, well-rounded, designers.