The scope of this design exploration was to produce a concept statement followed by three iterative designs that were revised and refined in order to best realize the goals stated in the concept statement (above.) Below are screenshots of the three versions that were developed:

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The first version was heavily influenced by the New York Times temperature graph. I chose a simple bar graph, with each bar representing a day, since the full historical data features only highs and lows.

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The second version split the historical data and daily recordings into two seperate charts, but it seemed too complicated and cluttered for a kiosk screen that would only be browsed casually.

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The third version simplifies the statement more, and integrates the current day’s high and low temperature into the same axis as the historical data. A pair of knobs on the kiosk face would allow users alternately scrub forward and backward in time and zoom in and out to show more or fewer days. The gray column represents the current day and remains static, while the historical data at left can be browsed. Thus the visitor can always be comparing the current day’s temperature data to any sequence of the historical record.