Not just these icons -- the entire site is both jam-packed with information and nearly unreadable.
I think this might be an example of when an engineer or a developer design the user-facing portions of a system. A deeply technical perspective, at a complete loss in how to relate to an average outsider.
I don’t see the information overload issue in this Safecast map. If anything, it lacks info (a good air quality map should at least come with wind indicators, like earth.nullschool).
However, it seems to have limited coverage, which makes it useless for many.
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If somebody assigned you to design a map that's extremely difficult to interpret, you probably wouldn't be clever enough to come up with this.
https://ibb.co/TLDxBZF
Not just these icons -- the entire site is both jam-packed with information and nearly unreadable.
I think this might be an example of when an engineer or a developer design the user-facing portions of a system. A deeply technical perspective, at a complete loss in how to relate to an average outsider.
It really looks like an exercise in obfuscation.
I don’t see the information overload issue in this Safecast map. If anything, it lacks info (a good air quality map should at least come with wind indicators, like earth.nullschool).
However, it seems to have limited coverage, which makes it useless for many.