From a color palette decision, isn't green a bad choice? "I'm in the green, ok perfect I'll stay at home!" Why not use a perceptually uniform color gradation that has a vague connotation of danger, like the (aptly named) plasma, inferno, or magma color schemes from R's viridis color package? [1].
From the images further in the article, it looks like CrisisReady uses a standard color palette.
The green color used in the banner image and the side-by-side image seem to be for emphasizing how the shape looks similar to an avocado, not for use in the actual reports.
> Forcing a user to relearn a system that may not be broken is poor design, so we wanted to maintain as much of these design characteristics as possible.
...which seems to conflict with this statement later in the article.
> As CrisisReady explained to us, people expect to see the cone of uncertainty in hurricane visualizations, though the avocado of uncertainty should remain the focus.
I get that unexpected and quirky titles drive clicks, but please, authors, give at lease some basic explanation in the beginning of your article. I shouldn't have to scroll almost halfway down the page to find out what "avocado of uncertainty" means.
It was pretty clear what it was going to be after the first sentence. Maybe run it by ChatGPT next time in lieu of reading or scrolling, it was able to figure it out when I asked just now.
[1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/viridis/vignettes/in...