UX Design with Adobe Aero: What You Need to Know

Complete guide to design AR

Olha Bahaieva
UX Planet
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4 min readJun 17, 2020

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Augmented reality is a popular design direction in 2020. It has a wide range of capabilities for UX designers because we are not limited to the physical space of the device.

There are a lot of ways for how designers can create augmented reality. But brand new Adobe Aero provides an easy and quick option to see AR from your iOS or iPad device.

Adobe Aero on the App Store
Credit: Adobe Aero on the App Store

Why you should consider using Adobe Aero? Because you can translate any creative idea from your screen in the real world. It does not depend on level of your design — anything can be translated into AR. Here are more benefits:

User-friendly interface

Quickly preview AR results in real-time from your device without any line of code! This program is intuitive and it takes a couple of minutes to understand how it works.

Quality

You have a lot of design elements and you need all of them? Aero is able to transform each element into AR. It does not sacrifice the quality of the designer's idea.

Tips

Adobe Aero provides you the best tips on how to transform your design into creative AR. It has pre-build instructions, which explain how to interact with the functionality of creating your first AR scene.

Interaction

Use your hands to place each of your elements where you want, adjust paths, add triggers. This will allow viewers to interact with them.

Sharing

There are publishing and sharing options that run your project into the world via social media. You can also send your AR scene to other devices via Aero app.

3D design with Adobe Aero

If you are familiar with 3D or create your own elements for the app or web, then you know how long it takes to visualize your scene. It is super easy to present 3d characters or any design elements with Adobe Aero. There is no need to render long visualizations…

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Written by Olha Bahaieva

Lead UX/UI Designer, Mentor, UXDC Founder • UX/UI Design • Get 100+ UX/UI design tools collection: https://olhabahaieva.ck.page/52893cef89

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