What are the development confidential stories and future possibilities the Pokemon GO designers mentioned

BySaMtRoNiKa

Google-sponsored design conference "SPAN 2016"Was held in Los Angeles, USA on October 27, 2016, and Mr. Dennis Fang, who is director of visual design at Niantic Labs of" Pokémon GO "developer, appeared. Mr. Fang is also in charge of design at Pokemon GO and during the conference the IT related media The Verge interviewed Mr. Fang and heard about the secretive development and future possibilities of Pokemon GO.

Seven questions for Pokemon Go designer Dennis Hwang - The Verge
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◆ Pokemon GO Launch
According to Mr. Fang, the development team of Pokemon GO continues to lose sleep for the launch, and Mr. Fung himself also seems to be ambiguous about the launch day of Pokemon GO due to lack of sleep. What I remember about Launch is that Pokemon GO was an explosive popularity from the day of launch, unlike Ingress where preparing with marketing, PR, event holding, etc., led to popularity. It began to feel that this popularity spread to all over the world and create a big social phenomenon when users began to hold events on their own or to conduct off-club meetings in parks and taverns. The fact that communication between users has been made in this way can be a factor that became a big hit involving the world later.

Mr. Fang, a designer of Pokemon GO.


◆ Pokemon GO and social network
Meanwhile, Mr. Fang also mentioned the possibility of Pokemon GO's social networking function that allows users to interact with each other. It is not only Pokemon GO but also the whole issue of Google and it seems that it is an ideal future that Google envisioned, to provide users with experiences that emphasize connection between people and people. However, it is not a story that social networking functions will be implemented soon in Pokemon GO, but it seems to be "to explore possibilities as one direction."

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◆ Pokemon GO and wearable
Pokemon GO is working on wearable terminals and plans to correspond to Apple Watch within 2016. In the future, it is highly likely that eyeglasses-type wearable terminals will appear, and Mr. Fang also said that "Pokemon GO corresponds to eyeglasses wearable terminals can happen in the near future and it will be a matter of time." It seems that it is necessary to overcome the problem such as whether AR can be displayed even under sunlight.

◆ Future design of Pokemon GO
Regarding the design of Pokemon GO, Mr. Fang who still feels that there is a need for improvement. For example, the details of Pokemon are small and difficult to see, users need to check their faces closely, change the size to display, change the notification to animation, change the notice to animation, audible rather than visual, It is said that they are considering improvement measures by various approaches, such as communicating information at the site.