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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Top 5 Best Practices for Developing Embedded GUIs
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.
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.
New Independent Practice Checklist
Taking the decision to establish a new independent practice is an exciting first step in your journey as a clinician. While transitioning to an independent practice comes with new responsibilities, it also opens the door to a more intimate way to provide care for your patients and deepen the patient-physician relationship. Whether you are coming from a different practice or are straight out of medical school, we’ve developed this brief guide to give you a step-by-step overview with resources and advice from successful independent practices.
Empowering Sustainable Primary Care
Throughout the pandemic, the resilience, dedication, and heroism of primary care professionals across the nation was put on full display. But even before the pandemic reshaped the healthcare landscape, there has been a growing consensus around the idea that primary care can and should play a more central role in U.S. healthcare.
But while primary care is being recognized as a key lever in providing a better patient experience, improving health outcomes, and delivering care at a lower cost, many primary care physicians are being driven to serious burnout and experiencing unsustainable pressures.
In this ebook, we’ll try to unpack the broken economics surrounding primary care that are contributing to these challenges. We’ll also explain why we believe another system is possible: A healthcare system where primary care clinicians can take the driver's seat in making healthcare sustainable again. Where we can advance the craft of medicine and transition of payment models while staying true to what’s most important about medicine: the patient-physician relationship.
EHR Buyer’s Guide
The advances in healthcare EHRs have spurred practice efficiencies, improved care through patient data sharing, and improved workflows within the practice. Technology Advances have also caused some providers to stress over how to pick the right one. At the same time, a purpose-built EHR may be the key to mitigating the increasing rates of provider burnout and making for a financially solvent practice.
Although the increased use of technology, including the requirement to implement it in independent practices to secure certain value-based care reimbursements, has been shown to contribute to the burnout rate, integrated healthcare technology can be the solution needed to help improve and simplify care team workflows, reducing the stressors that contribute to burnout.
For example, the research on physician burnout found that, on a scale of 0 to 100, a 10-point increase in the usability of an electronic health record (EHR) will decrease the odds of physician burnout by 30%.
Measuring the ROI of Customer Learning
The Three Key Pillars of Learning
As the learning industry matures, one question comes up time and time again in our conversations with customers about their learning programs. “How do we measure the business impact of extended enterprise learning initiatives?”
With our experience across multiple learning segments, from professional training and customer education to partner enablement and more, we’ve isolated three key pillars that describe the value of customer learning, and, alongside real-world examples.
Download this white paper to discover the metrics you can track to prove ROI in each of these critical areas.
Make the Business Case for a Modern Customer Learning Platform
A cutting-edge customer education platform can radically improve your customer acquisition, retention, and expansion – three fundamental elements of business success.
If you’re in charge of bringing education to your organization’s customers, you won’t need convincing of the operational advantages offered by cutting-edge training solutions. But to help you convince the board or executive leadership, our team put together an in-depth eBook that will guide you through:
- The four major shortcomings of (most) traditional learning systems.
- Why a third-party solution makes more economic sense than a custom build.
- Why the current timing is critical to making your business case.
- The five keys to crafting a successful business case for a next-gen learning solution.
The Ultimate Guide to Continuing Education, Badging and Certifications
Over the past few years, certification and micro-credentials of all kinds have been growing in popularity. Certification can impact product adoption, recurring revenue, annual contract value, and active users. It also helps to create brand champions who advocate for your product, enhancing the loyalty of your existing customers and helping with retention in an increasingly subscription-based and virtual world.
Learn how to:
- Build effective continuing education, badging and certification programs with advice from leading experts in their field.
- Increase learning program engagement and business performance.
- Measure the effectiveness of your continuing education, badging, and certification programs.
Complete the form to access the full guide!
How Great Customer Learning Programs Create Value
We’ve interviewed countless leaders in the customer learning space to deliver a comprehensive guide to moving the needle on your program.
We share our most recent research on:
- The roadmap for how superior customer learning programs grow.
- The common stages – and barriers – of program development.
- How to build a plan and get executive buy-in for your customer training initiatives.
Fill out the form to download your copy.
