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GUI for Embedded Applications: Expert Design Insights & Trends

Fabrizio Trotti — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:03:10 GMT

Modern embedded devices are ubiquitous, found in a wide range of applications, including medical equipment, automotive dashboards, and industrial control systems. Yet creating an effective GUI for embedded applications remains one of the most challenging aspects of product development. We recently hosted a webinar featuring four industry veterans with over 60 years of combined experience to discuss the realities of embedded GUI design, what's working, what's still broken, and where the field is headed.

Our panel included:
• Shawn Dorsey - Senior Manager of UI/UX at Qt
• Jason Manns - Senior Technical Artist at Qt
• Dennis Lenard - Founder and Managing Director at Creative Navy
• Sven Heller - CEO at Create Next

Here's what they had to say about the evolution, challenges, and future of GUI design for embedded systems.

Building on Diverse Experience: Shaping the Future of Customer Success at Qt Group

Qt Group — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 08:42:39 GMT

My name is Nobuko Echizen, and I work as a Customer Success Engineer at Qt Group. My role is to help customers who adopt our products make the most of them from a technical perspective.

Congratulations Qt Champions 2025!

volker.hilsheimer@qt.io (Volker Hilsheimer) — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:42:39 GMT

Through the Qt Project, both The Qt Group and a global community of developers, open source projects, customers, and partners work together to evolve the libraries, tooling, and documentation. 2025 has been a very active year again, with consistently well over 500 commits merged into the different Qt modules and branches every week. Nearly 200 contributors to the code base are not working for the Qt Group and account for about 15% of all commits. A big Thank You to all of you!

Contributions to Qt go beyond code: the community actively participates through bug reports, forum discussions, technical support, documentation improvements, and more. All of which are essential to ensuring Qt’s quality, popularity, and continued growth.

All of this makes Qt a truly collaborative project, and each year we want to recognise members of the Qt community that have stood out through their participation in the project. You have replied to our call for nominations, and now the wait is over.

We proudly present the Qt Champions for 2025:

Design Handoff to Developers: How to Stay True to Your Original Vision

Jason Manns — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:25:51 GMT

The design handoff process - transferring design vision from the designer to the developer - is one of the most critical yet challenging phases in product development. When executed poorly, it leads to misaligned expectations, inconsistent UI implementation, frustrated teams, and a very poor customer experience. This guide explores how to hand off design to developers effectively while maintaining your original design vision.

Qt for MCUs 2.8.4 is released

maija.metso@qt.io (Maija Metso) — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 11:55:51 GMT

Qt for MCUs 2.8.4 LTS has been released and is available for download. It's the last patch release in the MCU 2.8 Long Term Support series. This patch release provides bug fixes and other improvements while maintaining source compatibility with Qt for MCUs 2.8 (see Qt for MCUs 2.8 LTS released). This release does not add any new functionality.

Qt for Android Automotive 6.8.6 is released

bruno.vunderl@qt.io (Bruno Vunderl) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:23:25 GMT

The latest patch release for Android Automotive 6.8.6 was just released. This release is based on Qt LTS 6.8.6 with 430 bug fixes, security updates, and other improvements done to Qt base. There are no additional Qt for Android Automotive features delivered.

Qt 6.11 Beta 1 Released

jani.heikkinen@qt.io (Jani Heikkinen) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:45:04 GMT

Qt 6.11 Beta 1 is now available! You can download it through the Qt Online Installer. Source packages are also provided: commercial users can access them via the Qt Account Portal, and open‑source users can find them in the open-source download area.

Introducing the Qt Task Tree Module, Part of Qt 6.11

Jaroslaw.Kobus@qt.io (Jarek Kobus) — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:58:49 GMT

The new Qt Task Tree module, available soon with Qt 6.11 as a technology preview, is a comprehensive solution for managing automated asynchronous tasks. But what truly sets this module apart is its completely new approach to C++ API design in Qt. It also changes the way we think about writing and reading asynchronous code. Furthermore, it unifies various asynchronous APIs, and provides means for adapting any asynchronous task to work with the module.

Figma to Qt: The Fastest Way to Bring Figma Designs to the Product

lussy.kim@qt.io (Lussy Kim) — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:58:29 GMT

Let’s talk about Figma to Qt — the plugin that closes the gap between Figma designs, Qt, and the final product. After launching our first public beta in September, we’re back with powerful new updates. Here’s what the plugin can do today.

How to Learn Qt in 2026: Free Courses, Tutorials & What's New for Developers

Emilia Valkonen-Damjanovic — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:30:49 GMT

As we wrap up the year, we’re excited to share what’s been happening in Qt Learning and what’s available for developers in 2026! Our mission is to keep expanding and improving our learning resources to support developers, students, and future talent worldwide.