What is Pollen Tally for ?
Evaluate how your medication helps with each of your pollen-season symptoms
For what purpose serveth the Pollen Tally ?
Ponder how thy physick doth succour thee against all thy afflictions of the pollen season
Questionnaire
Choose how long your pollen season lasts...
the process can be edited back and forth until content
Inquisitioun Schedule
Select how long the season of pollen endureth for thee...
the processe may be amended to and fro til thou be y-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
Keepers of the Tyme
Set down thy afflicciouns ere, and one houre after, thou hast taken thy physick, that the change thereby wrought may be seen
submissiouns may be altered for fiftene minutes, an they be once y-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
Present Thy Symptomes
Let us first speak plainly: these multilayered formes be hypotrochoids (as in the wondrous Spirograph®). Each doth bear three thresholds, to show light, middling, and grievous symptoms
Historical Records
Dig through months or years of your recorded misery, every symptom preserved so you never miss a thing
Present Thy Symptomes
Delve through moneths or yeres of thy writen miserie, for every symptome is kept, that naught be forgotten
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
Inquest of the Medycines
Mark well whether thy physicks be taken together or apart, that thou mayest see how each doth work upon thy symptomes
a broad survey of the season entire is also made ready for thee
Secret Marvel
Turn thy frame to landscape, that the writing may be revealed in Alde English :)
Easter Egg
Rotate to portrait to reveal text in present day English :)
Experimentation
This project had me experiment a lot with different combinations of hypotrochoids, 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 is an example of a more complex design that could not be used...
I also had a blast with Alde English translations (h/t ChatGPT)
Tryal of Arts
This undertaking did set me to much trial with diverse combinations of hypotrochoids, for the likenesses were of great moment to the user’s experience, and did consume no small portion of time
Yet may I truly say that I took great delight therein; and here is but one example of a more intricate design which could not be employed...
I did also find great delight and merriment in rendering these words into Alde English (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
Announcing of Tidings
Albeit oft left aside, it behoveth to hold a thing to display afore another, that they may scan it, or post it upon the scroll of the web
a moving semblance (‘Brain’s Throbbing’) wrought its effect with great grace
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 landscape 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"
Craft and Cunning Put to Use
Laying Forth of the Tale
Full diligently did I prepare for this venturesome release, furnishing it with manifold and richly layered views, and seeing that all elements should reflow properly when the frame were turned to landscape
Time-Wardens
Both submissiouns and amendements were held in thrall by keepers of the tyme, a vexation that waxed sore when physicks were taken at staggered hours, compelling sundry timers to run at once
The Reckoning of Numbers
To question the numbers and draw forth a natural tale of how well a physick wrought upon a given affliction - this was mine own poor venture into ‘artificial wit.’