Designing Immersive 3D Experiences

Renée Stevens is an interactive and immersive designer, educator, author, and speaker. Her creative work focuses on innovative ways that design can help overcome learning disabilities and create more accessible and inclusive learning environments. She is the founder of the XR tech startup, tagAR. For more than a decade she has run her own interactive design studio consulting and designing on XR projects and working as a motion designer for Forbes. You can find her teaching at the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where she is the Associate Chair of the Visual Communications Department, overseeing the undergraduate and graduate design programs. She was named an Educator to Watch by Graphic Design USA (GDUSA). She has been invited around the world to speak about her research and design work in XR, including TEDx, SXSW, Sundance, VR/AR Association, and AIGA. She is the author of the book Powered by Design. She lives in New York with her husband and two children who keep her creating every day.You can learn more at www.reneestevens.design.

• CHAPTER 1 PICK YOUR REALITY The tech behind the acronymsYou are already using extended realityProsthetic knowledgeLooking aheadCHAPTER 2 TECHNOLOGY CHECK Is any of this actually new?The world in the palm of your handProjection mappingHead-mounted displaysSpatial computingReality checkCHAPTER 3 THE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE The world in 3DAffordancesMultimodal experiencesExperience designCHAPTER 4 IDEATION Identify the whyInnovation and practicalityOutside influenceKeep it humanThe answer to your questionsCHAPTER 5 CREATING THE PROTOTYPE Fake it 'til you make itSketch transparentlyThe power of prototypesUse what you knowProcess workCHAPTER 6      THE UX OF XR Approachable designSeamless user flowKnow thy audienceMaking reality accessibleUX challengeCHAPTER 7 THE UI OF XR The z-axis3D interface metaphorsTime and spaceMicrointeractionsInspiration is all around youCHAPTER 8 HUMAN FACTORS Designing the whole experienceTheories of perceptionCreating hierarchy in 3DHuman centeredCHAPTER 9 THE UNCONTROLLABLE BACKGROUND Expecting the unexpectedFigure-groundLocation, location, locationGetting emotionalControl is overratedCHAPTER 10 AUGMENTED TYPOGRAPHY Legibility and readabilityCreating visual contrastTake controlDesign with purposeCHAPTER 11 COLOR FOR XR Color appearance modelsLight interactionsDynamic adaptationReflectionCHAPTER 12 SOUND DESIGN Hearing what you seeSpatial soundAugmented audioVoice experiencesPower of soundCHAPTER 13 BRINGING IT TO LIFE To code or not to codeKeep it agileTry, and try againUser experience researchPrivacy and ethical considerationsKeep it superCHAPTER 14 UP NEXT Where to go from hereBreaking out of rectanglesWhy we need XR right nowExtend our physical space