Technology has changed nearly everything about the way that people in society exist and function. From smartphones to the Internet, technology has transformed the world in just a few decade’s time. For architects, home builders and home designers, technology has taken a front seat in the experience of designing and building a structure. From start to finish, technology affects the way that architects design buildings and even the way that clients experience the design process. Technology can improve building efficiency and durability while making it easier for architects to more accurately render a building design.

Smart Technology Affects Home Designs and Building Designs

Clients now demand smart technology in their homes and buildings. Smart technology can be used to increase security, improve comfort and heighten efficiency. Smart HVAC systems, security systems and lighting systems make homes more intuitive and more beautiful. Now architects are integrating smart technology into their designs to meet customer demand.

While older homes and buildings are being outfitted with these new products retroactively, it can be hard to seamlessly integrate smart technology into an older structure. Smart technology works perfectly with new buildings because the buildings were designed with smart technology in mind.

Climate Change Predictive Software

Climate change affects the environment where buildings exist, and therefore, will affect the way the buildings themselves perform. The new software allows architects to predict the way that differences in climate will affect a building before it is ever made. This enables architects to create more flexible, durable structures. Using specialised software tools, architects can create buildings that will last longer and function better over a period of decades.

Virtual Reality Makes Models More Realistic Than Ever

In the past, clients who hired an architect would be dependent on 3D models and 2D renderings to view the product before it was built. While these renderings can get the job done, there are limitations. 3D models and 2D drawings can leave clients wondering about their finished product. Now architects use virtual reality headsets to allow clients to explore a rendering to their heart’s content. People who hire an architect to design a home, building or home remodel can use the VR headset to walk in the front door, explore the entryway, walk down hallways, open closets, look out windows and experience first-hand what it would be like to walk around in the structure.

Photo-Realistic Renderings Create a Colorful Picture of Finished Product

Virtual reality has changed client presentations, while photo-realistic renderings have changed the way that architects envision buildings. Photo-realistic renderings allow architects to create ultra-realistic images of buildings that are not yet in existence. This enables architects to create a more accurate representation of their final product, which makes it possible to more precisely capture an idea and perfect a design before it is built.

Architecture Continues To Advance With Technology

As technology advances, so will architecture. Technology is constantly improving human life on a day-to-day basis, solving age-old problems encountered by humans. How can we work faster? How can we be more comfortable? How can we improve our quality of life? What can we do to live longer, more efficient and more productive lives? By changing the way buildings are made and by changing the functionality of buildings and homes, technology can positively affect civilisation, one building at a time.

Greg Geilman is a Los Angeles native of over 40 years and owner of South Bay Residential www.southbayresidential.com

Animated titles within media projects are almost a given, especially at the level of output that video production studios are expected to meet or exceed. It helps to have a few tricks stored away to generate impressive titles with minimal time and effort when client demands increase.

Beginner 1. Minimalistic Title Animation 2. Corporate Title Animation 3. Title Animation That Follows Video Shots

Intermediate 4. 3D Corner Text Title Animation 5. Write on Title Animation. Perfect for Travel Videos. 6. Dots to Lines to Letters Title Animation

Advanced 7. Glitching Title Animation 8. Kinetic Typography 9. Dynamic, Rhythmic Typography

1. Minimalistic Title Animation

This tutorial will help you create modern and clean animated titles for the minimalist video. There’s also a handy tip in this one about how to make sure that, when you’re resizing a shape, you don’t have any issues with the scaling of the shape’s edges.

2. Corporate Title Animation

Brush up on two different corporate title animations. The video is very similar to the minimalist title animation tutorial, however, the second animation starting at 8:12 covers a corporate info title that’s more text-heavy, left aligned, and has different movement patterns.

3. Title Animation That Follows Video Shots

Discover how to create call-out titles that follow the movement of an object in a shot or video. The title essentially looks like it’s connected to the object and a true part of the video as opposed to being an effect laid on top.

4. 3D Corner Text Title Animation

Create text that goes around the “edge” of an imaginary shape and rotates like a 3D object. This title is perfect for effects creators and animators who haven’t yet entered the world of 3D.

5. Write on Title Animation. Perfect for Travel Videos.

You’ll learn a few things in this tutorial by Motion Array. First, how to write on an animated title using your own handwriting, then speed ramping the footage, and finally, adding texture.

6. Dots to Lines to Letters Title Animation

Learn how to create the movement of dots to lines to actual letters. This animation is a little more advanced because you’ll have to start out in Adobe Illustrator to create your letters versus downloading a font.

7. Glitching Title Animation

Glitching is a title animation style you’ll absolutely want to have in your tool kit. This tutorial will teach you how to achieve this animation completely within After Effects so you don’t have to source any footage.

8. Kinetic Typography

What’s trending besides paint brush travel style titles and glitching? Kinetic typography is. Basically, kinetic typography is the coordination of typography with on-screen motion.

9. Dynamic, Rhythmic Typography

A kind of subset of kinetic typography is rhythmic typography. Whereas most kinetic typography is associated with text that reiterates the words being spoken or sung, rhythmic typography is animated to the rhythm or beat of the song underneath. This tutorial is a more hands-on approach that will break down in about 8 minutes how to recreate the example given in the beginning.

There are many more After Effects tutorials across the web. Here we have highlighted a selection that will give you ideas about how to extend your After Effects knowledge.

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Adobe’s Creative Cloud software makes it extremely possible for nearly anyone to learn a thing or two about communication design. UI/UX (User Interface and User Experience) has become a major forefront of the marketing and selling process. Adobe has gradually made learning its ins and outs more accessible anyone can start learning the Experience Design (XD) software for free.

About Adobe XD

Adobe XD (Experience Design) is a groundbreaking UI/UX application that allows almost anyone to model and design from wireframe outward – going as far as allowing users to prototype them. Adobe’s experience design app is useful not only because of its streamlined UX-building process for current designers but also because it has opened up the forum for newcomers and those in need of incredibly powerful computers to render the files they’ll create. Artboards for various devices allow users to see how their app could look between a series of timesaving tools that honestly changes the game. With XD, Adobe has enabled the belief that, as ideas grow more intricate, so do designs and the overall execution of ideas.

Adobe’s XD CC plan looks to broaden the scope of users through a free basic user plan and upgrades between £9.98 (for unlimited, individual app use) and £49.94 per month for access to all of the Adobe CC apps. While for businesses, the same free plan exists for team members, going up to £25.28 per month for unlimited access to XD and up to £59.00 per month for all-in access. The free “starter” plan is designed for those just testing the waters of UI/UX, granting them 2GB of space plus a single active shared prototype and one design spec.

For Anyone & Everyone

While designing a beautiful app is an incredible feat in of itself, bringing said app to life is the real ticker, Adobe’s free download option for XD makes it easy for almost anyone to add input to UI/UX design.

For automotive designers prototyping and testing their vehicle’s UX and ergonomics, XD’s streamlined, teamwork-enabling software allows for any and all valuable input to be heard, tested, changed and implemented. Apps that allow car buyers to customize their vehicles, learn more about the building process, and compare interiors, parts, mileage, reviews and durability all create a better, more interactive user experience. Because almost anyone can intricately create, design and prototype UI/UX, they’ll need powerful computers to help render and smooth out their designs.

What It Means for the Future

With reports of Adobe smoothing and ironing out the kinks in their XD software, its increased compatibility with other Adobe CC software—namely Photoshop—along with Sketch, users can also play around with multiple artboards and create variations of their choosing in singular actions. Automobile and videogame designers and film producers/editors alike could benefit from this Adobe XD CC, as it allows them to go as far as creating plug-ins for third parties and other accessible features to showcase their brand and test the effectiveness of their user experience.

Those newly utilizing Adobe’s state-of-the-art XD software could benefit from high-powered workstations that easily render, save, and process their work, so as to avoid unexpected shutdowns, buffering, system failures, and many other hair-pulling issues that come with computers lacking the power these brilliant minds need. If these businesses want to stand out, they should begin with Adobe XD CC and reliable software.

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