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Wthr: Weather App Inspired by Braun

June 25th, 2012




David Elgena created this beautiful Braun/Dieter Rams inspired weather iphone app called Wthr. The app is very nicely done and I’d say it’s definitely worth downloading from the App Store.

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  1. Jessie says:
    06/26/2012 at 9:32 AM

    Beautiful!

  2. Sean says:
    06/26/2012 at 10:28 AM

    Skeuomorphism done right

  3. Joshua Jenkins says:
    06/26/2012 at 12:52 PM

    Inspired by Braun / Dieter Rams on an entirely superficial level. What’s innovative, honest, or unobtrusive about this? To echo Rams’ famous principle: “good design is as little design as possible.”

  4. mg33 says:
    06/27/2012 at 9:09 AM

    It’s a shame there’s not a “Totally Fucking Scorching Hot” designation for the weather we’ll have in Chicago tomorrow. It’s supposed to be 103. Gross.

  5. Shelby White says:
    06/27/2012 at 9:31 AM

    @MG33 Ha! The problem with this weather app in Portland is that it’ll always say its raining.

  6. Cory says:
    06/29/2012 at 5:51 PM

    Inspired more by the products themselves, than the ethos behind them. But nonetheless really pretty; if you’re going to do skeuomorphism, do it like this.

  7. Steve says:
    06/29/2012 at 9:45 PM

    Has anyone else experienced that this app will turn on…but never turn off your location services on the iphone?

  8. dc says:
    07/02/2012 at 8:02 AM

    Yes. I love the design but the app is useless since it’s written poorly and that location services bug is a huge oversight/failure.

  9. Henning von Vogelsang says:
    08/17/2012 at 1:08 AM

    “Good design is as little design as possible.” – exactly, and this is not as little design as possible. It is decorative design with skeuomorphic elements. The driver for this UI is a warm retro effect and slight resemblance with Braun devices. But these Braun products were physically implying what they were doing, not mimicking physical appearance under a glass surface.

    http://itunes.apple.com/app/solar-weather/id542875991?mt=8

    Check out Solar, a weather app that has actually “as little design as possible”. I am not a fan of apps with invisible gestures you have to learn first. But in this case the gestures are intuitive and easy to adopt.

    I am a developer of the iPhone productivity app Steps. We used the same principles of reduced design, without sacrificing usability by leaving away clues of the user interface.
    (http://itunes.apple.com/app/steps./id505791739?mt=8)


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