Spatial UX Design, Verve Augmented Reality : AR Interface Design

Role: Product Design Consultant  ·  Duration: 2023–2024  ·  Type: Remote contract  ·  Domain: Augmented Reality

Designing for augmented reality means designing without a screen. No established UX conventions, no existing playbook. Users interact through gesture, motion, and spatial depth — and when those interactions fail, they fail visibly and expensively. Verve needed a designer who could bring product design rigour to an environment where most UX principles had to be invented from first principles.

· Gesture-based control design — simplified interaction models for AR environments, reducing user confusion by 33%

· Spatial onboarding — designed onboarding experiences that accounted for depth perception, motion, and low-light conditions

· Environmental responsiveness — improved how the AR product responded to real-world conditions, cutting calibration issues by 22%

· Heuristic evaluation — ran structured evaluations to identify and remove friction points

· Prototype-to-demo handoff — supported engineers in translating spatial prototypes into functional demos

· → 33% reduction in user confusion through simplified gesture controls

· → 24% improvement in AR feature adoption via better onboarding

· → 22% reduction in calibration issues through improved environmental responsiveness

· → 19% improvement in user task accuracy across spatial interfaces

→ 25% reduction in friction points via heuristic evaluation