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My Heat Journal App Design
I was responsible for mocking up and iterating upon two design flows over the course of the design process. For each, I started out with low fidelity designs so that the developers could have the time to implement, then I got feedback during our weekly design critiques, iterated on designs, and increased fidelity each sprint.
Add a new heat journal entry
Here users are able to use a slider to select their relative comfortability at that moment in time, take a photo of something in their environment that is impacting the heat comfortability in some way, and select ways that they could increase their comfort level at that time.
Viewing past heat journal entries
Being able to sort through past heat journal entries proved helpful for participants to be able to have conversations with each other about collective patterns that they noticed.
These localized data archives also allowed for any data to remain in the hands of citizen scientists unless they manually chose to share it to researchers.
Send data to UrbanHeatATL
researchers
If citizen scientists are in a position where they are interested in and willing to collaborate with academic researchers or other stakeholder, they are able to package up their heat journals and share as a zipped file. They have control over what days and specific data is included in this file to ensure a consentful data experience.