Foundations Understand how fundamental design elements help you create rich experiences. Accessibility Accessible user interfaces empower everyone to have a great experience with your app or game. App icons A unique, memorable icon expresses your app’s or game’s purpose and personality and helps people recognize it at a glance. Branding Apps and games express their unique brand identity in ways that make them instantly recognizable while feeling at home on the platform and giving people a consistent experience. Color Judicious use of color can enhance communication, evoke your brand, provide visual continuity, communicate status and feedback, and help people understand information. Dark Mode Dark Mode is a systemwide appearance setting that uses a dark color palette to provide a comfortable viewing experience tailored for low-light environments. Icons An effective icon is a graphic asset that expresses a single concept in ways people instantly understand. Images To make sure your artwork looks great on all devices you support, learn how the system displays content and how to deliver art at the appropriate scale factors. Immersive experiences In visionOS, you can design apps and games that extend beyond windows and volumes, immersing people in your content. Inclusion Inclusive apps and games put people first by prioritizing respectful communication and presenting content and functionality in ways that everyone can access and understand. Layout A consistent layout that adapts to various contexts makes your experience more approachable and helps people enjoy their favorite apps and games on all their devices. Materials A material is a visual effect that creates a sense of depth, layering, and hierarchy between foreground and background elements. Motion Beautiful, fluid motions bring the interface to life, conveying status, providing feedback and instruction, and enriching the visual experience of your app or game. Privacy Privacy is paramount: it’s critical to be transparent about the privacy-related data and resources you require and essential to protect the data people allow you to access. Right to left Support right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew by reversing your interface as needed to match the reading direction of the related scripts. SF Symbols SF Symbols provides thousands of consistent, highly configurable symbols that integrate seamlessly with the San Francisco system font, automatically aligning with text in all weights and sizes. Spatial layout Spatial layout techniques help you take advantage of the infinite canvas of Apple Vision Pro and present your content in engaging, comfortable ways. Typography Your typographic choices can help you display legible text, convey an information hierarchy, communicate important content, and express your brand or style. Writing The words you choose within your app are an essential part of its user experience. Next Accessibility Previous Designing for games 11 of 172