The takeaways from these resources helped me grow immensely as a designer and thinker in the space of Virtual and Augmented Reality. These creatives have generously shared their methods, findings, and ventures with the public, and I have slowly curated these over time into categories for later reference.
I hope you find this content just as valuable for your journey as it was for mine!
UX of VR: One of the most thorough Learning resources I have found!
Design Principles: General Design Principles to always keep in mind
VR Glossary: Terminology and definitions
VR Design Cheat Sheet: Excellent article by Ryan Betts
UI Optical Effects: Informative UI Optical Effects article by Slava Shestopalov
Unity, Unreal, and Blender Tutorials: From beginner to expert set of tutorials. Highly recommend dabbling across and finding the platform the works best for you.
Empathy maps: Invision’s Empathy Map process
Applying Human Centered Design: IDEO’s take on designing for emerging technologies
These are some other prototyping methods I found very insightful. Depending on what you’re prototyping, the size of your team, and the timeframe to develop a project, different methods can be more or less useful for you.
AfterNow: Our Process: Excellent physical prototyping techniques
Quick VR Prototypes by Mozilla VR
VR Browsing Explorations by Josh Carpenter
Google Daydream’s Process, Lessons Learned, and Designing Screen Interfaces videos from their I/O 16 conference. A bit dated but still great resources.
1. How to use subtle AR filters to survive your Zoom meetings?
2. The First No-Headset Virtual Monitor
3. Augmented reality (AR) is the future of Restaurant Menu?
4. Creating remote MR productions
UnSplash free content images
Flickr 360 Images for free 360 hi res images
Coolers: Free Color picking tool
Material Design UI Color Tool by Google
Google Fonts examples in use: Fun examples of Fonts in context design
Free Typography List: Extensive list of resources for free fonts
Practice briefs and prompts: Briefs to keep your design skills sharp
Designers Guide to DPI: Great resource to get familiar with DPI and PPI for cross-platform design
ARBA Meetup Group: Bay Area
Project Soli: No touch hand tracking
UI Interations: New posting each week of delightful and inspirational work
Arts & Culture Experimentation by Google
List of AR/VR Tools and Hardware: Great Trello board of hardware in the space!