From the course: Designing for Virtual Reality

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Creating design principles

Creating design principles

- Designing for virtual reality can be fun, and it's tempting to start listing design requirements and begin building your VR experience right away. But good VR design starts with user-centered needs and principles. But what exactly are design principles and how can you use them? Design principles can help lead the entire design process and keep your team on the same page in terms of priorities. Creating design principles based on user data can also keep your user's needs at the forefront of your design process. So often during VR development, we need to make design requirement decisions. For example, how will the user navigate the environment? Having a clear set of established design principles can help you to make a user-based decision. Principles are not requirements. Principles are global drivers of the entire process that help us to keep the user in mind and make user-centered designs along the way. Principles help us focus on the user's key needs and outcomes. So where do…

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