Smartwatch Design Fundamentals

Gain concepts central to smartwatch design, editing and animation correction using the popular open source Galaxy Watch Designer software package. This visual guide builds upon the essential concepts of smartwatch design, decoration, digital imaging, animation, function integration, and visual effects, and gets more advanced as chapters progress, covering which digital new media file formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF, etc.) are best for use with smartwatch design.
Smart Watch Design Fundamentals also covers key factors in the data footprint optimization work process, designing and optimizing animation assets, and why these optimizations are important. Additionally, the book covers other advanced topics such as how to provide free smartwatch faces for the first few days on the smartwatch store, and how to post watchface designs for sale in the store.
What You'll Learn:

• Create a smartwatch design and visual effects pipeline

• Gain knowledge of the concepts behind smartwatch design

• Work with resolution, aspect ratio, animation, and color depth

• Use smartwatch design components such as ticks, numerals, feature markers, dates, etc.

• Optimizing digital image asset data footprint to create small smartwatch design file sizes

  Who This Book Is For:This book is primarily for smart watch and fashion designers.

  Learn the fundamental of smartwatch design in this unique and compact book Understand digital image and animation file formats and data footprint optimization Build a production pipeline utilizing Galaxy Watch Designer 1.60

  Autorentext
  Wallace Jackson is a seasoned multimedia producer for International Device Manufacturers as well as an Author for Apress covering Open Source, Software Development, Game Development and New Media content development.

  Inhalt
  Chapter 1: SmartWatch Design History, Concepts Terms and Installation.- Chapter 2: SmartWatch Design Assets.- Chapter 3: SmartWatch Design Considerations: Watch Face Types.- Chapter 4: SmartWatch Design Considerations: Watch Face States.- Chapter 5: SmartWatch Design Motion Assets: Watch Face Animation.- Chapter 6: SmartWatch Design Testing: Software and Hardware Testing.- Chapter 7: SmartWatch Watch Face Layer-Based Design Using GIMP.- Chapter 8: SmartWatch Conditional Design Using the Timeline.- Chapter 9: Watch Face Battery or Steps Taken: Percentage Conditional Design.- Chapter 10: Watch Face Complications Design.- Chapter 11: Watch Face Gyroscopic Design: Using the Gyroscope.- Chapter 12: Watch Face Weather Design: Using Weather APIs.- Chapter 13: Watch Face Algorithm Design: Using Tag Expressions.- Chapter 14: Watch Face Publishing.