Embedded GUI Design Tools

Powerful GUI Design & Development Tools for Embedded Applications

Storyboard’s collaborative environment encourages embedded GUI designers to create their best UI experience while enabling developers to validate and perfect at the same time.

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User and future friendly embedded GUI development solutions

The goal of embedded GUI design / development is to create an interface that is intuitive, clean, and helps products stand out from the competition. Design elements are more effective if they are given thoughtful touches that align with the end users' interests and needs. Having the right GUI design tools at your disposal is critical to ensuring an optimized user experience, on anything from a widespread consumer appliance to an extremely niche medical tool. Dedicated platforms such as Crank AMETEK's Storyboard enable the construction of future-friendly designs, ensuring you have a highly marketable and effective GUI.

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Embedded GUI on laptop screen showing HMI with circular gauges, developed using Crank Storyboard.

Own the GUI design

Imagine the possibilities if the UI/UX design was able to become the building block for GUI application development. Storyboard's unique parallel workflow allows designers to be focused on perfecting the UI/UX design, while their software developer colleagues continue to work on the backend integration at the same time.

This collaborative environment encourages UI designers to own their design by iterating when required without impacting the work being done by software developers. The result is a faster time-to-market, without ever having compromised the integrity of the intended design.

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Laptop and embedded display running Crank Software for HMI design and development.

Design compelling experiences

Creating compelling embedded GUI experiences demands diving beneath the surface level, getting to know your target demographic, and comparing against older designs to see where there is room for improvement.

Tools such as Storyboard can help you refine your UI/UX focus while harnessing the full potential of GPU and CPU processing power for high-resolution 2D and 3D graphical elements.

With Storyboard, you can even start with a digital sketch created in the design tool of your choice, export it as needed, and create a compelling animated GUI with just a few clicks of your mouse.

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Optimize for performance

Whether creating a proof of concept or prepping the project for launch, you shouldn’t hesitate to test and validate the performance of every single element. It helps keeps code cleaner and helps minimize complications down the road.

Storyboard makes it easy to incorporate UI testing and validation into the embedded development workflow. Enabling the fine-tuning of UI performance while enhancing the overall customer experience.

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Design smarter. Deliver faster. Delight users.

From concept to code, great design is what sets great products apart. We teamed up with our UX partners at Fresh Consulting to bring you the top 10 must-follow best practices when designing embedded graphical user interfaces.

While user expectations continue to evolve, these tried-and-true guidelines will help you build intuitive, efficient, and scalable UIs ensuring a strong return on investment and keeping your project on track.

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