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https://tenki.so is a tabular representation of the 7-day weather forecast across Japan, which I made for traveling opportunistically.

After the JMA updated their 7-day forecast to be harder to read at a glance, I started pulling and processing the data hourly using Cloudflare workers and trying to present it densely and intuitively using Flareact. It’s been fun exercising the limits of workers (streaming XML at first), organizing the data effectively, and playing with visualization… as well as having a great way to pick a destination when a spell of dark weather is approaching home.


Mega thanks for making and posting this. I've been searching for a tool to "destructure" exactly this way... not necessarily down to radicals, but to any part that has meaning by itself.

Thank you for citing your sources too. As others have mentioned, much of the fun of learning is developing the tools, and this thread helps fill a gaping hole in mine.


How is viewing Chernobyl from that angle useful in this context?

The Houston Ship Channel has the potential to become an environmental disaster similar to Chernobyl, but affecting the fourth-largest population and economic center in the US.

It's not hyperbole -- if you drive down 225 and 146 from Houston to Galveston, it feels like you're in the Sonic the Hedgehog Chemical Plant Zone... it just goes on and on at an unbelievable scale. It self-perpetuates partially because expanding existing petrochemical complexes seems to meet less opposition than building new ones.

https://www.google.com/search?q=houston+ship+channel+plants&...

https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7348066,-95.1345542,13223m/d...


Graphically representing all times wastes space, making the rules easier to understand for those who can read them, but decreasing legibility.

This is a tradeoff, not an all-around win.


Consistency is more key than minimalism.

Plus producing identically sized signs has economies of scale that variable sized ones likely won't counteract.


Not minimalism. Information density. Visibility.

Representing time with colored spaces decreases information density. Green & red blocks aren't enough -- the primary data, the numbers, are still required labels, and are made smaller to accommodate the new elements.

Shrinking the primary data decreases visibility, so you, with decent eyesight, need to be closer. My grandmother will have an even harder time resolving it.

Visibility hasn't been addressed, but deserves to be in any conversation about signage.


Wcd's quality (most recordings are posted in multiple formats including FLAC and 320 & v0 mp3) is assured -- the community is serious and self-policing about encoding. Is the same true of Soulseek?


This has been done for a long time on many sites. The Firefox download is one that comes to mind.

I see this as more of a no-brainer for a software download than a standout example of brilliant UX.


UX isn't about who did what first. It's about doing what makes sense for the user, then reapplying it in every scenario that works. Pull to refresh on the iPhone was utter genius and everyone adopted it. No one is saying, "Well Tweetie did that first!"

Also, it seems like a "no brainer" now, but during the development it's easy for these no brainer things to either be ignored or written off as a waste of valuable engineering time.


Well said. I wasn't trying to say DropBox is the only or the first. They had the will and attention to detail that so so many sites don't.


Well, apart from Apple who often claim they did it first...


The Firefox one gives you Safari screenshots on a Mac, regardless of what browser you are using. So Dropbox did take it one step further.


Same here. When writing instructions about how to install the historious bookmarklet, I had to take screenshots of all the browsers, including the iPhone. I don't think of it as a nice touch, it's integral to people's understanding of how to install it.

I haven't had a single request for additional instructions, ever.


Well said, this is been done in many sites for many years. I don't know why dropbox is always hitting first page.


Also, this was the case in plenty of printed technical manuals for any dual platform software.


It's not brilliant in the sense that it's innovative, but rather because it's attention to detail that 95% of sites don't bother to touch.

Sometimes it's something ever so slight that makes the difference between a conversion and a bounce.


Tufte, who we all seem to worship, would praise separation of elements with whitespace instead of dividing lines.

This article, like most things from uxmovement.com, would be a lot easier to stomach with data backing up the author's preferences.


I don't even know who is Tufte, and don't worship anyone, thanks.


Not surprising at all. Conventional layout wisdom says give the eye a clear path in a direction it knows.

A multi-dimensional grid takes you in a Z shape, whereas a vertical lineup's images and text are all aligned and easier to distinguish.


I guess it was surprising for a bozo like me :)

I think I'd overestimated "pretty" and underestimated "functional" in this case, so the results were a wakeup.


I was surprised that the author was assuming everyone would guess the grid view would do better. It seems completely obvious to me that a list view is better.


I am surprised you would assume that everyone would think like you.


That body text is borderline illegible, even rendered on a Mac. Horrible choice.


Readability toolbar shortcut to the rescue!

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I think it is sad that they got rid of the old page, which was so nice and helpful (and obvious and free).


The 20-year-old office clerk at a Beijing cosmetics manufacturer knows it could set him back more than $1,000. He'll have to save for months. But he said it would be money well spent. "As a man, you must have one of those bags," he said. "It will bring you status, dignity and boost your image."

Petrifying though that may be, that's only months. We saddle ourselves with six years of payments for the status symbols we can't afford.


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