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The keywords of XR: your guide to starting out with confidence
FOV, presence, play area: the vocabulary of XR explained simply, so you can follow the conversation and choose your tools.
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The XR designer’s essential toolkit in 2025: your starter guide
Figma, Miro, 3D engines: the tools worth knowing when you start designing for XR, and what each one actually brings.
A checklist for designing an XR experience: the steps you cannot skip
Understanding your users, making the experience accessible, defining its architecture: the steps not to skip, in order.
From UX-UI designer to XR designer: transferable skills, and the new ones to learn
Empathy, visual hierarchy, user journeys: what you already know still holds. A look at the transferable skills and the ones to pick up.
XR ethics through pop culture: when fiction prepares us for tomorrow’s questions
The Matrix, Black Mirror: fiction asks the ethical questions of immersion before we do. Autonomy, consent, and what that means for design.
UX in XR: why the more intuitive it is, the more immersive it feels
In XR, the click gives way to the gesture. Why building on behaviours people already have lowers mental load and deepens immersion.
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The keywords of XR: your guide to starting out with confidence
FOV, presence, play area: the vocabulary of XR explained simply, so you can follow the conversation and choose your tools.
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