The weathr blog.
Research and essays on the problems weathr exists for. Every figure is linked to its source, and every post says what weathr does not solve as plainly as what it does.
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What the research on social media harm says, and what an app would have to refuse
Less about hours online than about comparison, passive scrolling and an audience.
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Why everyone says "fine", and how to get a truer answer
People answer what the situation makes safe. Lower the cost rather than asking harder.
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What a social app teenagers could use would have to leave out
The evidence, the Anxious Generation norms and Australia's under-16 law, read as a design brief.
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Onboarding is lonely
New hires get documents and accounts. What they lack is a sense of the people around them.
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Better than a black screen
A feed or a black screen. Calm technology suggested a third thing in 1995.
See it rather than read about it
The demo needs no account and no download: a live map of invented people whose weather moves while you watch. Everything on this page is true of it.