BB-9E Trainer

With the release of BB-8 and BB-9E, the product team wanted to add a new augmented reality (AR) experience in which the droids could be virtually driven in the app.

The AR experience required a user's phone camera to be able to determine the droid's direction of movement (and thus its navigation on screen). For the in-app controls to work, the camera needed to be able to recognize, through distinguishing graphics, the various orientations of the trainer base. I was recruited to help the product team establish a design that the app software could interpolate for use in the AR experience. I worked with the industrial designer and software technician to draft a design that tested successfully. The design graphics released on the final product are a result of close communication with their team on a creative, yet technical goal.