SmartWatch Design Fundamentals

1. Front Matter

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2. Smartwatch Design History, Concepts, Terms, and Installation

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   Pages 1-32

3. Smartwatch Design Assets: Acquisition, Concepts, and Terms

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   Pages 33-65

4. Smartwatch Design Considerations: Watch Face Types

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   Pages 67-96

5. Smartwatch Design Considerations: Watch Face States

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   Pages 97-122

6. Smartwatch Design Motion Assets: Watch Face Animation

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   Pages 123-153

7. Smartwatch Design Testing: Software and Hardware Testing

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   Pages 155-193

8. Smartwatch Watch Face Layer-Based Design Using GIMP

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   Pages 195-220

9. Smartwatch Conditional Design Using the Timeline

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   Pages 221-258

10. Watch Face Battery or Steps Taken: Percentage Conditional Design

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    Pages 259-281

11. Watch Face Complication Design

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    Pages 283-313

12. Watch Face Gyroscopic Design: Using the Gyroscope

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    Pages 315-343

13. Watch Face Weather Design: Using Weather APIs

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    Pages 345-383

14. Watch Face Algorithm Design: Using Tag Expressions

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    Pages 385-408

15. Watch Face Publishing

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    Pages 409-435

16. Back Matter

    Pages 437-446

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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.

• Smart Watch
• Watch Face
• Galaxy Watch Components
• SmartWatch Design
• Graphics Design
• Digital Imaging
• SmartWatch Animation
• Feature Design
• WatchFace Design
• Wearable Design

• Lompoc, USA

  Wallace Jackson

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.

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