September 2022

The Typical AR Workflow | Augmented Reality Design Principles | Adobe Creative Cloud

Learn Augmented Reality Design Principles in this Adobe Aero series led by artist Heather Dunaway Smith.

Augmented Reality Workflow & Best Practices:
Learn augmented reality workflows & best practices for creating AR experiences in both 2D & 3D.

AR Workflow:
The typical AR workflow, including storyboarding, prototyping, AR scene creation in Adobe Aero, & user testing.

What you learned:
• Goal Setting: Whenever you start a project, it’s important to establish your goals and the audience’s goals. This will bring clarity to your decision-making throughout the development process.
• Sketching & Ideating: By brainstorming and sketching, you can quickly come up with a number of ideas and begin to articulate your plan.
• Storyboarding: This is the phase of the project where you sketch out all of the key moments, the overall story arc, planning out how the participant will get from point A to point B, as well as any important interactions or animations that might occur in between.
• Prototyping: It can be difficult to intuit what these spatial experiences will feel like, so it’s important to create a prototype of your plan (layout, interactions, etc.) so that you can test it in physical space.
• Designing & Creating Assets: Once you’ve tested your experience and you’re happy with how the basic composition and the interactions are working, it’s time to actually design and create your assets.
• Creating an AR scene: Once your assets have been created, it’s time to import them and lay them out in Adobe Aero’s 3D workspace. • Starting your designs on the desktop version, followed by testing on a mobile device, allows for easy importing and precision while ensuring that the composition is working in the physical world.
• Adding Animations & Interactions: Once your layout is completed, it’s time to add custom animations and interactions using The Behavior Builder.
• Testing: When the project is complete, double-check all of the final details. Look at the composition from multiple angles, test on different mobile devices, and perform user testing. This will ensure that your project is ready to share with others.
• Sharing With Others: To share your experience, simply click on the share icon and it will generate a URL and QR code. When your audience opens that link on a mobile device, it will launch Aero and start your experience.

Learn more about Aero: https://bit.ly/aeroaugmentedreality
Visit our Aero Tutorials page: https://helpx.adobe.com/aero/tutorials.html

Get Aero for free:
Download on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/adobe-aero
Download on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.aero.android
Download for desktop: https://helpx.adobe.com/aero/get-started

Get inspired: https://www.behance.net/galleries/aero
Connect to a global community of AR creators:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adobeaero/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdobeAero

Tag your creations with #AdobeAero for a chance to be featured.

Presenter: https://www.dunawaysmith.com/site/

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AR Interaction Design Best Practices | Augmented Reality Design Principles | Adobe Creative Cloud

Learn Augmented Reality Design Principles in this Adobe Aero series led by artist Heather Dunaway Smith.

Augmented Reality Interaction Design:
Learn why interaction is an important part of AR & how to create successful interactions using a variety of techniques.

AR Interaction Design Best Practices:
Learn best practices for creating successful interactions in augmented reality, as well as, tips & tricks for creating immersive worlds.

What you learned:
• How to create clear, easy-to-use interactions in AR using visual hierarchies.
• Responding to a participant’s input is vital. By listening and reacting, you build trust and encourage them to interact with the rest of your AR experience.
• Hit areas must be large enough to be tapped easily and have enough space around it, so you don’t accidentally tap something else.
• Using a participant’s pre-existing knowledge is an easy way to make your experience more intuitive.
• If an interaction is essential, make sure that it is discoverable by creating multiple triggers.
• PROXIMITY TRIGGERS and ORBIT ACTIONS are two powerful ways to leverage the space around a participant’s body.
• By using a blend of essential and optional interactions, you can create interactive depth. This gives authenticity to the world you are building and encourages exploration.

Learn more about Aero: https://bit.ly/aeroaugmentedreality
Visit our Aero Tutorials page: https://helpx.adobe.com/aero/tutorials.html

Get Aero for free:
Download on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/adobe-aero
Download on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.aero.android
Download for desktop: https://helpx.adobe.com/aero/get-started

Get inspired: https://www.behance.net/galleries/aero

Connect to a global community of AR creators:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adobeaero/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdobeAero

Tag your creations with #AdobeAero for a chance to be featured.

Presenter: https://www.dunawaysmith.com/site/

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Adobe Creative Cloud gives you the world’s best creative apps so you can turn your brightest ideas into your greatest work across your desktop and mobile devices.

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Tips and Tricks for 2D Assets in AR | Augmented Reality Design Principles | Adobe Creative Cloud

Learn Augmented Reality Design Principles in this Adobe Aero series led by artist Heather Dunaway Smith.

Augmented Reality Workflow & Best Practices:
Learn augmented reality workflows & best practices for creating AR experiences in both 2D & 3D.

Best Practices for using 2D in AR:
Learn tips, tricks, & best practices for using 2D images & animations in AR scenes.

What you learned:
• JPG compression can help you keep your file sizes down.
• Due to the way computers (and graphics cards) process data, it’s often a good idea to use power of two images. A power of two image is one that has an aspect ratio of 1:1 or 2:1, where the sides are either a multiple of 2 or 8.
• 2D animations are imported as a PNG sequence that is then zipped into an archive. The files can get large, so try to keep your file dimensions and frame rates as low as possible (while maintaining fidelity.)
• If you use photoshop files that contain layers in Aero, it will automatically create an illustration with depth. Simply drag and drop the PSD file onto Aero’s 3d workspace, then adjust the layer spacing in the properties panel.

Learn more about Aero: https://bit.ly/aeroaugmentedreality
Visit our Aero Tutorials page: https://helpx.adobe.com/aero/tutorials.html

Get Aero for free:
Download on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/adobe-aero
Download on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.aero.android
Download for desktop: https://helpx.adobe.com/aero/get-started

Get inspired: https://www.behance.net/galleries/aero

Connect to a global community of AR creators:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adobeaero/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdobeAero

Tag your creations with #AdobeAero for a chance to be featured.

Presenter: https://www.dunawaysmith.com/site/

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Adobe Creative Cloud gives you the world’s best creative apps so you can turn your brightest ideas into your greatest work across your desktop and mobile devices.

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