Augmented Reality: Beyond Screens

New technologies are allowing us the opportunity to interact with our world in a variety of innovative ways. These new and exciting avenues of interaction are offering both amazing possibilities and unique complications. Designers are now challenged with designing outside the typical mobile device platform. As designers, we are compelled to adapt to these new and innovative technologies.

To become truly useful, AR interfaces and experiences must be adapted to human behavioral patterns, not the other way around. This seminar will provide you with tips and best practices for creating UI/UX designs for an AR environment. We will assist designers in how to create functional and intuitive, but also engaging and visually appealing, AR experiences.

What You’ll Learn:

• Design focused exploration of the hardware and software opportunities and limitations of Augmented Reality-capable devices.
• Suggested practices for design and development processes when designing for AR.

Topics Covered:

• Challenges of creating an effective user experience for Augmented Reality environments.
• The hardware and software limitations of a variety of emerging AR platforms.
• How factors such as device constraints, environmental constraints, and human constraints affect AR design.
• Types of user context considerations such as public, intimate, personal, or private when designing for AR.
• Knowledge of new and future emerging technologies that may benefit UI/UX designers.
• Considerations for making effective use of facial recognition, text detection, and location assistance.
• Utilizing AR technologies to create unique experiences for the visually impaired.
• Examples of successes and failures when designing for AR.
• UI/UX AR tips and techniques such as gestural considerations and other advanced design patterns.
• Employing user research and testing to increase effectiveness of your AR designs.