Sponsor: Altia

From Pixel to Production: Bringing Embedded GUIs to Market

Building such graphic displays is a complex issue that requires expertise in many areas. Designers bring stunning graphics and a set of features to product development teams that struggle to accurately translate requirements into precise visuals and behaviors of hardware. A carefully crafted artistic vision for a product is altered or abandoned due to various constraints related to hardware, software, team know-how and deadlines. The end embedded user interface runs slowly and arrives late, frustrating users.

Download the webinar "From Pixel to Production: Bringing Embedded GUIs to Market". Learn how the right software and workflows can help teams efficiently and successfully design, develop, and deploy rich, top-performing GUIs for their products.

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Getting Embedded GUls to Market

Join Altia for this live event on Thursday, October 27th at 10:00 AM EST/ 04:00 PM CEST. Can't participate live? If you register, we'll send you a recording after the webinar.

Beautiful branded embedded displays and touch screens are a must-have for everyday devices in the car, in the home or out in the world. These screens offer more than just aesthetics; they enable access to features and functionality that inform and empower users to interact with technology to make their lives better, smarter and simpler.

Building these graphical displays is a complex problem that requires expertise in many areas. Designers hand gorgeous graphics and a series of features to the product development team, who struggle with accurately translating requirements to precise visuals and behaviors on hardware. The carefully crafted artistic vision for the product shifts or is abandoned due to a variety of constraints related to hardware, software, team know-how and deadlines. The final embedded user interface runs slowly, arrives late and is a disappointment to users.

Register here for the live webinar "From Pixel to Production: Bringing Embedded GUIs to Market". Learn how the right software and workflows can help teams efficiently and successfully design, develop, and deploy rich, top-performing GUIs for their products.

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Altia Engineering Services Solution Brief – End-to-End Expertise in Embedded Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)

With decades of experience in real-world embedded display scenarios, Altia’s Engineering Services Team is expert at solving difficult customer challenges—utilizing best practices to create custom software solutions, employing modern UX principles and quality testing practices.

Key Benefits

  • Gain expertise and productivity without adding headcount.
  • Obtain the best results and highest performance with your GUI projects.
  • Get the most of our team’s deep technical knowledge, urgency and keen eye for quality.
  • Work with local points of contact for your project – team members available worldwide.
  • Fill in the gaps in your team’s expertise with Altia’s artists, UX specialists and embedded experts.
  • Overcome tight turnaround times and performance challenges.
  • Simplify your certification with our experts trained in ISO 26262, ASIL, MISRA and others.

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Altia DeepScreen Solution Brief – Automatic Graphics Code Generator

Turn your Altia Design model into compact, deployable graphics code with Altia DeepScreen. Get artwork from any popular graphics software to production hardware from all popular silicon providers.

Key Benefits

  • Automatically generate graphics code—no hand coding required.
  • Build one GUI model and run on any hardware, any OS (or no OS).
  • Pre-validate optimum processor and memory during development.
  • Realize better quality, reduced risk and lowest possible price point.
  • Simplified certification with efficient C source code.
  • No loss of concept –the artist’s vision is deployed to production hardware.
  • Save time and effort by scaling the same GUI model to a variety of hardware.
  • Get your best UX by testing GUI model early and often with customers and key stakeholders.
  • Go to market quickly with time-saving workflow that engages all members of your team.

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Altia Design Solution Brief – A WYSIWYG GUI Editor

Altia Design is the centerpiece of Altia’s toolchain, used for building high-performance, professional-looking prototypes and GUIs without hand coding graphics one line at a time.

Key Benefits

  • Collaborate efficiently with cloud-based access and pre-configured projects.
  • Design and develop GUI models that can be scaled to a variety of hardware.
  • Deliver your vision to production by importing 2D/3D assets from popular graphics tools.
  • Connect to professional-grade logic tools to test your production code.
  • Get your best UX by testing GUI model early and often with customers and key stakeholders.
  • Go to market quickly with time-saving workflow that engages all members of your team.

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Pre-Project GUI Development Technical Checklist

To set your next GUI project up for success, it is important to begin with some basic understanding of what your GUI needs will be. Your Marketing and User Experience team are undoubtedly working on what the GUI needs to look like and what features need to be included. As a member of the GUI development team—responsible for getting their visions to production.

Here is a checklist you can use to ensure you are covering all the bases for your next GUI project.

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How Medallion Improves Versatility and Cost Savings

After the graphical display revolution started, Medallion quickly found that their original GUI design tool was becoming cumbersome. It did not easily support the rapid design iterations required to keep up with the changes occurring in various vehicles and industry segments.

After completing their evaluations, Medallion concluded that Altia would best provide the agility and efficiency it was looking for. Altia Design, Altia’s embedded GUI editor, is the core of its design environment, supporting every step of the design process from prototype to final product.

DeepScreen is Altia’s code generator, transforming designs into efficient graphics code for any of dozens of popular processor target.

“At the end of the day, Altia gets the most out of our hardware platform, compared to the alternatives,” said VanderWall. “We’ve tried other tools and previous platforms—and Altia’s efficiency improvement is very good. So, we’re very happy about that.”

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Production-Proven Software and Services

If you’re a new company creating a ground-breaking medical device or you have a complete team of experienced embedded engineers, Altia has worked with companies around the world to deliver brand-defining embedded UIs for embedded devices –and our software is designed into over 100M devise worldwide.

With Altia’s model-based development approach, development teams gain the power to create custom, working user interface models in Altia Design, our GUI editor. These models offer a means for clear communication, fast feedback and iterations for the best possible UI design.

Altia’s automatic code generation allows for fast, early tests on hardware in real-life settings to refine user experience and performance. Altia’s DeepScreen code generator provides production-ready C code that is optimized to leverage all the resources available on target hardware.

Learn more about how Altia’s software helps your artists, UI developers and engineers get your artwork onto hardware.

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Evaluating GUI Design Software

Creating a GUI will allow your customers to directly interact with your product through an embedded display or touch screen. It’s incredibly exciting to kick off a project like this, but simply getting started can be the hardest part.

Whether you’re a graphic designer in charge of mocking up the actual UI design or you’re the software engineer assigned to coding it, we’re going to help you through the process of evaluating GUI design software so you can make the best decision for your team and project moving forward.

To set your next GUI project up for success, it is important to begin with some basic understanding of what your GUI needs will be. Your Marketing and User Experience team are undoubtedly working on what the GUI needs to look like and what features need to be included.

As a member of the GUI development team—responsible for getting their visions to production. Here is a checklist you can use to ensure you are covering all the bases for your next GUI project.

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Top Five Best Practices Developing Embedded GUIs in 2022

Whether you’re developing an automotive instrument cluster, a security keypad or a medical device display, there are numerous challenges that arise from the time you receive your design decisions and plan from marketing to when your device goes to production.

Altia has helped companies all over the world deliver beautiful, feature rich embedded graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for production—and we have collected a series of best practices for getting your best next generation GUI on the road, on the store shelf and in the hands of your customers.

In this eBook, we’ll outline these best practices and how to apply them using the production-proven Altia GUI development solutions.

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5 Ways to Get Your GUI to Market Quickly

The graphical user interface (GUI) is the face of your product. It's where your customers meet your device—so it's imperative that you make a great impression.

In the midst of all the pressures of user experience design and product development, how can you still put the best "face" on your product on time and at the best possible cost and performance?

Designers often have exciting ideas for a GUI that is attractive, convenient and adds measurable value to your product. Converting those concepts to a finished look, without compromising the initial vision, takes knowledge and the right tools.

Here are five tips that will ensure your GUI is the tremendous success your team wants.

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Medallion Instrumentation Systems Success Story

After the graphical display revolution started, Medallion quickly found that their original GUI design tool was becoming cumbersome. It did not easily support the rapid design iterations required to keep up with the changes occurring in various vehicles and industry segments.

After completing their evaluations, Medallion concluded that Altia would best provide the agility and efficiency it was looking for. Altia Design, Altia’s embedded GUI editor, is the core of its design environment, supporting every step of the design process from prototype to final product.

DeepScreen is Altia’s code generator, transforming designs into efficient graphics code for any of dozens of popular processor target.

“At the end of the day, Altia gets the most out of our hardware platform, compared to the alternatives,” said VanderWall. “We’ve tried other tools and previous platforms—and Altia’s efficiency improvement is very good. So, we’re very happy about that.”

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GUI Development Checklist

To set your next GUI project up for success, it is important to begin with some basic understanding of what your GUI needs will be. Your Marketing and User Experience team are undoubtedly working on what the GUI needs to look like and what features need to be included. As a member of the GUI development team—responsible for getting their visions to production.

Here is a checklist you can use to ensure you are covering all the bases for your next GUI project.

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Altia GUI Development Toolchain

If you’re a new company creating a ground-breaking medical device or you have a complete team of experienced embedded engineers, Altia has worked with companies around the world to deliver brand-defining embedded UIs for embedded devices –and our software is designed into over 100M devise worldwide.

With Altia’s model-based development approach, development teams gain the power to create custom, working user interface models in Altia Design, our GUI editor. These models offer a means for clear communication, fast feedback and iterations for the best possible UI design.

Altia’s automatic code generation allows for fast, early tests on hardware in real-life settings to refine user experience and performance. Altia’s DeepScreen code generator provides production-ready C code that is optimized to leverage all the resources available on target hardware.

Learn more about how Altia’s software helps your artists, UI developers and engineers get your artwork onto hardware.

View Now

Evaluating GUI Design Software

Creating a GUI will allow your customers to directly interact with your product through an embedded display or touch screen. It’s incredibly exciting to kick off a project like this, but simply getting started can be the hardest part.

Whether you’re a graphic designer in charge of mocking up the actual UI design or you’re the software engineer assigned to coding it, we’re going to help you through the process of evaluating GUI design software so you can make the best decision for your team and project moving forward.

To set your next GUI project up for success, it is important to begin with some basic understanding of what your GUI needs will be. Your Marketing and User Experience team are undoubtedly working on what the GUI needs to look like and what features need to be included.

As a member of the GUI development team—responsible for getting their visions to production. Here is a checklist you can use to ensure you are covering all the bases for your next GUI project.

Get Whitepaper