Unity Interactive Guide to Cross-Platform User Interfaces

Design / Development

The Unity Interactive Guide to Cross-Platform UI offers a set of guided, in-editor tutorials for Unity creators seeking to learn the workflows for creating cross-platform user interfaces. It's intended for creators who are already familiar with core Unity concepts, but want to learn more about topics like creating screen-adaptive UIs, managing UI inputs, and UI performance optimization.

The Guide makes use of Unity's In-Editor Tutorial Framework, so each section of the tutorial guides users with visual indicators throughout the editor and verifies that they correctly complete each step before progressing to new concepts.

I collaborated on the design and development of this project as part of a team of two. We both were Unity Developer Advocates and spent much of our time pre-pandemic providing in-person workshops to teach complex editor workflows. When the pandemic hit, we started doing virtual workshops over Zoom instead. We noticed our users hit repeated snags that would normally be resolved by physically pointing out next steps on their screen, so we created the UI Guide to as a way to mimic this virtually. Not only could the project accurately guide our users, it also provided a much more scalable way to share workshop content with our community.