Owen Woertink

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Interaction Design and Urban Experience Studio

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IxD Design Graphic Design

Designed for the ultra violet prone, this weather dashboard color codes critical information to reduce its users sun exposure. There are four differing information states, each expanding available information.


state one is a weekly view highlighting days with high uv indexes, as well as manageable weather conditions.
state two is a hourly forecast displaying, uv level, weather condition and temperature.
state three is an interchangeable alert page to highlight intense weather, temperature or uv levels.
state four is a detailed view of a particular hour within state two. showing off uv index, shade percentage and burn time.

The University of Michigan utilizes the popular educational organizer Canvas, however certain task-flows within the website are not up to snuff. Embracing gestalt principles we were required to test and identify lacking interaction architecture to render a redesigned Canvas, specifically tackling the process of editing ones profile. 


Final Canvas redesign states, honing on the thematics an ID card. 

Research was done through in-person observational studies, each attempt was cataloged into a task flow in which further findings could be synthesized. Informed by the research a final wireframe was then created to simplify the process of profile editing.