You're reading from Mastering UI Development with Unity Develop engaging and immersive user interfaces with Unity

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803235394

Length 638 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Unity

Concepts

UI Development

Author (1):

Dr. Ashley Godbold

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Designing User Interfaces

2. Chapter 1: Designing User Interfaces FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Designing Mobile User Interfaces

4. Chapter 3: Designing VR, MR, and AR UI

5. Chapter 4: Universal Design and Accessibility for UI

6. Chapter 5: User Interface and Input Systems in Unity

7. Part 2: Unity UI Basics

8. Chapter 6: Canvases, Panels, and Basic Layouts

9. Chapter 7: Exploring Automatic Layouts

10. Chapter 8: The Event System and Programming for UI

11. Part 3: The Interactable Unity UI Components

12. Chapter 9: The UI Button Component

13. Chapter 10: UI Text and TextMeshPro

14. Chapter 11: UI Images and Effects

15. Chapter 12: Using Masks, Scrollbars, and Scroll Views

16. Chapter 13: Other Interactable UI Components

17. Part 4: Unity UI Advanced Topics

18. Chapter 14: Animating UI Elements

19. Chapter 15: Particles in the UI

20. Chapter 16: Utilizing World Space UI

21. Chapter 17: Optimizing Unity UI

22. Part 5: Other UI and Input Systems

23. Chapter 18: Getting Started with UI Toolkit

24. Chapter 19: Working with IMGUI

25. Chapter 20: The New Input System

26. Index

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Designing User Interfaces

When working with UI, it is important to understand a few design basics. This chapter will cover the foundation of designing UI and a few key concepts to start you off in the right direction.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

Defining UI and GUI
Describing the four types of interfaces
Laying out your user interfaces
Discerning and setting resolution and aspect ratio

This book is not about the art of designing UI. It is a technical text that discusses the implementation of UI functionality. However, I do want to discuss some basic design principles of UI design. I don’t expect you to be an amazing UI designer after reading this chapter. I do hope that you get some basic understanding of layout and design principles from this chapter, though, so that maybe your artist friends won’t make too much fun of you.