[Free] Xr Ux Foundations: Immersion And Presence

It’s way more than just the UI and the flow – Free Course

Added on April 22, 2024 Design 2 min read

What you’ll learn

Explain why embodiment and presence are essential to immersive experiences.
List some of the key elements that break immersion.
Identify mitigations to counter technical limitations that can break immersion.
Analyze the embodiment and presence considerations of an existing experience.

Requirements

An eagerness to learn
Favorite note-taking tools
A VR headset is very beneficial, but not required

Description

For those of you that come from a 2D design background, youre probably used to only worrying about the UI design, the interactions and the flow of the experience.

Any good designer thinks about these things. However, with head-mounted XR – or more specifically VR – there are a lot more things to think about than just the flow, the UI and the ease of use. With VR in particular, the goal is usually to create an immersive experience that makes you feel like youre somewhere else, and there are many different aspects of an experience that can make or break that feeling of immersion and presence.

Some of those things we can control, and some of those things we cant. While we cant control all of the external distractions people may be dealing with in their own personal space, we can control the design of the experience.

When we design an immersive experience, of course we still need to pay attention to the interface, the interactions and the flow. Thats always going to be the case with any platform. However, with VR, there are tons of things to think about that may have never occurred to you.

In this course, I’ll teach you what to think about when you’re designing immersive VR experiences, and show you how to counter the technical limitations that can break immersion. This is a curated course of content that Ive created over the years around immersion and presence in XR, and it will lay part of the foundational knowledge of UX Best Practices for XR that youll need when creating your own experiences.

Author(s): Aleatha Singleton