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Augmented reality design guidelines for Lenovo

Contractor at Lenovo • 2019–2020

The Lenovo ThinkReality design team wanted to create AR design guidelines, for guiding creators who are new to augmented reality.

As a freelance design contractor, I scoped the contents of the 1st release together with the team, formed the information architecture, authored the pages, while also managing all pages through an editing & review process.

Information about the case restricted on public web.

Responsibilities:

  • Technical writing
  • Information architecture design
  • Project management

Artifacts

An example of a published page:
Input Options

A page explaining input options which were relevant to the Lenovo ThinkReality devices at the time of writing.

Note: Some of the original styling of the pages has been edited and lost after my departure from the project (e.g. columns and image sizes, wording, capitalization of words).

Design guidelines: Input options

Examples of content:
Contextual factors affecting AR design

One key difference of AR design compared to traditional UX design are the various comfort, environment and hardware factors that should be considered.

Enterprise AR environment has additionally some special contextual factors to consider: e.g. if the user is wearing a hard hat or hearing protection.

Examples of content:
Input and feedback

Examples of pages guiding the reader on input and feedback. Clear and efficient input & feedback from the system is critical for professional AR users.

Testimonials

She (Taru) is always organized, analytical in her approach, customer centric, knowledgeable in design principals in general and AR / VR specifically. She has a good understanding of Unity and her ability to general prototypes in Unity was an excellent bridge between UX and Development. She is a great addition to UX teams with AR/VR experience and also for teams just starting in this emerging environment. Karen Kluttz, Senior Staff Designer at Lenovo (at the time of the contract)
I had the pleasure to work alongside Taru on Lenovo's ThinkReality Team. She always brought her A-Game to every project and did a phenomenal job of advocating for the users of the product. She has a wealth of experience in Spatial Computing and can spot usability and design issues ahead of most other designers. Taru will absolutely make a positive impact to any team and immediately add value to any project! Vinny DaSilva, Technical XR Product Manager & Engineer at Lenovo (at the time of the contract)