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4. Smartwatch Design Considerations: Watch Face States

Wallace Jackson1 
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Lompoc, CA, USA
 

In this fourth chapter of the Smartwatch Design Fundamentals book, let’s look at the second most important consideration you will be making regarding (other than the attractiveness covered in Chapter 3) your watch face design: optimizing power (battery) usage. At the end of the day, this will also greatly affect the sales volume of the watch face, even if it’s by word of mouth between smartwatch users. By optimizing power, I am referencing the design’s ratio of off (Black) pixels to fully on (White) and partially on (red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, ...

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