Weather events and breathing
Where were you
People have a hunch that weather events have an impact on their breathing but focus of industry is on treating symptom (rescue inhalers, etc) - how do we empower people to verify and communicate these hunches?
What has changed
Focus. Wildfires again keep coming up this summer.
- https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/16/weather/canada-wildfire-smoke-air-quality
- Pandji in Anaheim ( AQI - 137) //screenshot in chat
- Lifelineaid Instagram post
- April in Chicago ; “family said their throat hurts outside”
- Could (period of time) be a way to constrain the project ; hotter summers -> wildfires -> ozone trapping Inspirations. Still very much thinking about calmness in how we communicate; more integrated design feel
- https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbGNp-TOlit/
- https://reframe.camera/
- https://www.gentle.systems/page/weather-machine Language : chronic conditions get compounded by layered environmental stressors
Where are you going
- Build the Asthma Weather Journal App
- Write Thesis Threads around (data) layering / (pattern) sense making / (public relaying) witnessing
2 week plan
Week 1 - Build POC webapp / Recruit testing / Micro-interaction design
Webapp: button that logs nearby weather events ; AQI metric ; how are you feeling?
Week 2 - Deploy and test webapp
6 week mvp plan
Week 3 - ✨ Can we stay as webapp, or do we need to leverage iOS native APIs for location tracking? / technical design week
Week 4 - data/layering
Week 5 - pattern/sensemaking
Week 6 - relay/witnessing
12 week product launch plan
Week 7 - test / iterate / build
Week 8 - test / iterate / build
Week 9 - test / iterate / build / package
Week 10 - package / present
As we go week by week let’s keep logs (kinda like how we’re doing with Laurel’s class) I advocated that the presentation as far as storytelling craft we focus less on; so that work can be the focus. JH agreed