What is Pollen Tally for ?
Evaluate how your medication helps with each of your pollen-season symptoms
Questionnaire
Choose how long your pollen season lasts…
the process can be edited back and forth until content
Timers
Record symptoms before and an hour after medication is taken to see what difference it made
submissions may be amended for up to fifteen minutes after committed
Submitting Symptoms
Okay, let’s get the elephant in the room out of the way: these multilayered shapes are hypotrochoids (think Spirograph®). Each has three thresholds to convey slight, moderate, and severe symptoms
Records
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MEDICATION ANALYSIS
Track whether you take medications together or separately to see how each one affects your symptoms
a high-level overview of the entire season is also available
EASTER EGG
Rotate horizontally to reveal text in Medieval Old English :)
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EXPERIMENTATION
This project had me experiment a lot with different combinations of hypotrochoids and epitrochoids, as the visuals were so key to the user's experience and ate up a lot of time.
But I can honestly say that I really enjoyed it and here are just some of the more complex designs that could not be used...
I also had a blast with Alde English translations (h/t ChatGPT)
Advertising
Usually an afterthought, it important to have something to flip out in person for another to scan, or post online
the concept was to communicate the volume of unseen pollen in the air
Skills Employed
Storyboarding
I planned extensively for this ambitious release, including support for multiple, deeply layered views and ensuring that all elements would reflow appropriately in horizontal orientation
Timers
Both submissions and amendments were held hostage by time-based gatekeepers, a frustration that grew when medications were taken at staggered intervals, obliging timers to run concurrently
Data Analysis
Interrogating numerical data to conjure a natural reading summary of how effective a medication was working for a specific symptom was my stab at "AI"