Climate Information Services · design diagnostic
Read your climate service as a designed service, dimension by dimension.
A guided interview for teams scoping or reviewing a Climate Information Service. It walks you through six design dimensions, records a self-assessment from 0 to 3 on each question, and returns a heuristic reading: where the service is under-designed, and the design brief each gap generates.
About 15–20 minutes · English · no account needed · your answers stay in your browser.
The research behind it
The instrument comes from a study that read two operational Climate Information Services in Northern Ghana as designed services, then built a six-dimension diagnostic grid whose unanswered questions become design briefs. The distance between a forecast being available and a forecast being used is treated as a design distance, not an information one.
A formative instrument
The grid is used before deployment. A scoping team works through the questions, and every question it cannot answer marks a design decision still to be made.
An attention map, not a ranking
The radar shows which dimensions are under-designed within one service, so scarce attention goes where it is most needed. It does not rank services against each other.
Earned in the field
The questions were tested in four weeks of fieldwork in two farming communities, where a forecast reaches most farmers, and almost all women, through a human relay rather than a device.
Under revision by use
If you choose to contribute, your anonymous ratings keep the grid under revision and show which design knowledge teams most often lack. No personal data is ever collected.
How it works
Three stages, one sitting. You can speak your answers or type them, and you can leave and resume later.
Guided interview
Six dimensions. Each opens with a short explanation, then five questions with a field example. You rate each from 0 to 3.
Heuristic reading
Your scores are mapped onto a hexagonal radar and turned into a reading of strengths, weaknesses and the brief that closes each gap.
Downloadable report
Take the reading with you as a PDF. Your written notes never leave your device.
The six dimensions
A synthesis of vocabularies from service design, behavioural science and co-production research, combined into a single reading protocol for Climate Information Services.