Mac OS X’s weather widget does a good job of showing current weather conditions, and what information it doesn’t show, you can get through its link to the Accuweather website. It sounds good, but I really hate having to leave my dashboard to get to that information, not to mention that Accuweather’s information design isn’t exactly stellar. I would love to scale the weather widget larger and be shown something like this:
Yes! Right? They designed the current widget to be glance-able which is great, but I’d bet it’s the most “used” widget, and so it would probably be beneficial to support more granularity. Maybe it’s a case of Apple’s minimalist design aesthetic getting in the way of giving people what they want. But rather than linking me out to Accuweather.com I’d really prefer they keep me in the dashboard experience, and display the extra information with Apple-like clarity.
