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SmartWatch Design Fundamentals

WatchFace Design for Samsung Galaxy SmartWatches

verfasst von: Wallace Jackson

Verlag: Apress

Enthalten in: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

Chapter 1. Smartwatch Design History, Concepts, Terms, and Installation

Abstract

In this first chapter of the Smartwatch Design Fundamentals book, let’s look at the history of some of the popular smartwatches of the past decade, some of the concepts involved with smartwatches, as well as popular terminology used for watch face design components.

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Chapter 2. Smartwatch Design Assets: Acquisition, Concepts, and Terms

Abstract

In this second chapter of the Smartwatch Design Fundamentals book, let’s look at how you can acquire free for commercial use smartwatch face design resources (I call them assets) online for digital images and digital illustration resources for use in watch face components. We will also be discussing the terms and concepts used for working with these assets, as we will be transforming them for our own watch face designs using the software which you downloaded and installed in Chapter 1.

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Chapter 3. Smartwatch Design Considerations: Watch Face Types

Abstract

In this third chapter of the Smartwatch Design Fundamentals book, let’s look at the most important considerations you will be making regarding the attractiveness of your watch face design, which will greatly affect the sales volume of the watch face. By attractiveness, I am talking about the watch face’s visual design, which we are obviously going to learn how to maximize over the course of this book, and about the display of its sensor features. We’ll be using Analog Watch Face and Digital Watch Face features with sensors indicating how much power the watch face uses, steps taken, date, weather, and heart rate.

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Chapter 4. Smartwatch Design Considerations: Watch Face States

Abstract

In this fourth chapter of the Smartwatch Design Fundamentals book, let’s look at the second most important consideration you will be making regarding (other than the attractiveness covered in Chapter 3) your watch face design: optimizing power (battery) usage. At the end of the day, this will also greatly affect the sales volume of the watch face, even if it’s by word of mouth between smartwatch users. By optimizing power, I am referencing the design’s ratio of off (Black) pixels to fully on (White) and partially on (red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow) pixels. This ratio will determine how much battery power your watch face design will use. This in turn determines how fast your watch face design drains the smartwatch battery and how well it passes the watch face store design inspection process (i.e., does it closely follow their Always-On Rules). This is why I included milliamp-hours (mAh) in the first part of Chapter 1.

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Chapter 5. Smartwatch Design Motion Assets: Watch Face Animation

Abstract

In this fifth chapter of the Smartwatch Design Fundamentals book, let’s look at making your watch face design animated, using motion assets. These are usually implemented as a series of numbered PNG graphic elements, so we will be able to continue to build upon your knowledge of digital imaging concepts, covered in Chapters 2 through 4, when we add in the fourth dimension of time to create motion using a series of images which will be played over time much like an old-school “flip-book.” This will involve using a specialized area of the Galaxy Watch Designer software called the Animation Component, which is located right above the Complications Component.

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Chapter 6. Smartwatch Design Testing: Software and Hardware Testing

Abstract

In this sixth chapter of the Smartwatch Design Fundamentals book, let’s look at testing your watch face design. There are several ways of testing your watch face design, including inside the Galaxy Watch Designer software using the Run (Play Icon) feature, in a Samsung Tizen Developer Testing Website (which is considered software-based testing) called The Remote Test Lab, and on Samsung smartwatches.

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Chapter 7. Smartwatch Watch Face Layer-Based Design Using GIMP

Abstract

In this seventh chapter of the Smartwatch Design Fundamentals book, let’s take your watch face design skills thus far and develop a watch face design from scratch, using all new elements that we design in GIMP 2.10.6. What we want to do is synchronize the layer compositing pipeline in GIMP 2.10 with what we are doing inside the Timeline pane in the Galaxy Watch Designer.

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Chapter 8. Smartwatch Conditional Design Using the Timeline

Abstract

In this eighth chapter of the Smartwatch Design Fundamentals book, let’s take your watch face design assets we created in GIMP in Chapter 7, and use the Galaxy Watch Designer Layers and Timeline to develop a watch face design from scratch, using all new 2D and 3D vector elements that we created and optimized using 3D Studio Max and GIMP. What we want to do in this chapter is show you how to leverage PNG8 and PNG32 assets you created in a layer compositing pipeline in GIMP, and how these design assets are assembled into a watch face design using the Layers and Timeline panes in Galaxy Watch Designer.

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Chapter 9. Watch Face Battery or Steps Taken: Percentage Conditional Design

Abstract

In this ninth chapter of the Smartwatch Design Fundamentals book, let’s build upon your watch face design assets we created using GIMP 2.10 in Chapter 7 and use the Galaxy Watch Designer Layers and Timeline in Battery Power Mode to develop a watch face design that turns red as the battery power drains from the smartwatch. What we want to do in this chapter is show you how to alter the PNG8 and PNG32 assets you created in Chapter 7 using different tools in GIMP, to create the PNG8 assets which will turn your watch face from black to red as power fades.

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Chapter 10. Watch Face Complication Design

Abstract

In this tenth chapter of the Smartwatch Design Fundamentals book, let’s get into designing those little “watch faces within a watch face,” called “complications.” These are very common on watches typically referred to as “chronograph” watches, although with the proliferation of different sensors on smartwatches; these little subdials often contain information regarding steps taken, heart rate, battery power used, altitude, and so on. There is a special Complication Component at the bottom of the Component pane, and you could think of this as a “subroutine” for a watch within a watch, since you can design component faces much like you can design a watch face, which we will see later on in this chapter.

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Chapter 11. Watch Face Gyroscopic Design: Using the Gyroscope

Abstract

In this eleventh chapter of the Smartwatch Design Fundamentals book, let’s get into designing what are called “Parallax” watch faces with gyroscopic or gyro-based watch face components, called “gyroscopes,” which was a recent feature added in V.1.5.2. These are used on watch faces that are customized, that is, those which use components dragged out of the GWD Components (Left Pane) ➤ Complications (Bottom Icon) ➤ Effects (Pop-out Menu) ➤ Gyro Effects (Autobahn | Cube | Gyro_Effect | Leveler | Light_Effect | Sub-Menus).

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Chapter 12. Watch Face Weather Design: Using Weather APIs

Abstract

In this twelfth chapter of the Smartwatch Design Fundamentals book, let’s get into designing what are called “Weather” watch faces which utilize an open-source weather API, called “OpenWeatherMap” which was a recent feature added in V.2.0. There are some complaints from developers online regarding how the OpenWeatherMap API works and support for it in combination with health-related features provided by the S-Health (Samsung Health) Applications.

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Chapter 13. Watch Face Algorithm Design: Using Tag Expressions

Abstract

In this thirteenth chapter of the Smartwatch Design Fundamentals book, let’s get into designing what are called “Algorithmic” watch faces which utilize an algorithmic coding approach, called “Tag Expressions,” which was a recent feature added in V.1.6.0. There are some complaints from developers online regarding limitations on how these Tag Expressions work and support for Tag Expressions in watch faces with health-related features provided by S-Health (Samsung Health) Applications.

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Chapter 14. Watch Face Publishing

Abstract

In this final chapter of the Smartwatch Design Fundamentals book, let’s take a look at how to publish your watch faces in the Samsung store. There are two types of Seller Office Accounts, the Private Seller Account, which allows Free watch faces to be published, and the Corporate Seller Account, which allows for Paid watch faces. The Private Seller Account can be upgraded to the Corporate Seller Account at any time by submitting some paperwork. We will be focusing on the Private Seller Account in this chapter, as most readers will be starting with this, as getting into doing corporate paperwork is not an option for most readers, who are not going to be corporations.

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Backmatter

Titel: SmartWatch Design Fundamentals
verfasst von: Wallace Jackson
Verlag: Apress
Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4842-4369-5
Print ISBN: 978-1-4842-4368-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4369-5