Discover Storyboard 8.1 - Import Design Files from Figma, Photoshop & Sketch

Unleash The Potential Of Embedded GUI Experiences

Execute your UI vision without compromising performance

One unifying framework, fewer feedback loops, and faster iterations for modern embedded GUI development.

Why Storyboard for embedded GUI development?

Storyboard helps embedded teams unleash the potential of their products embedded UI experiences

Regardless of the market that a product is being built for, the user experience has quickly become a crucial element of the final product. Therefore, ensuring the UI/UX designer’s vision is the same as the final GUI app that goes to market is vital.

Hence, making the whole development and testing process of UI applications more efficient enables project teams to deliver exceptional product experiences in fewer development cycles.

Shorten the development time of your embedded GUI applications

Get to market faster and do not lose valuable development time lost trying to recreate the designer’s vision.

Reduce the costs of developing GUI applications

Optimize your development process by minimizing iteration cycles, saving both time and effort, and ultimately reducing overall costs.

Ensure your embedded GUI applications look and perform as intended

Better collaboration between designers and developers and ensuring the UI/UX designer’s vision is the same as the final GUI.

Make GUI testing an intrinsic part of the development process

Enhance user satisfaction by delivering a flawless product through thorough testing, leading to increased sales.

Refined development workflow for a more intuitive UI development process
Leverage Lua or JavaScript (Duktape) to develop actions and events for UI applications
Integrated automated testing framework for a more streamlined UI development workflow

Learn more about Storyboard JavaScript API▸

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Decrease GUI development time (and time-to-market) by directly importing design files created in Figma/Sketch/Photoshop into Storyboard.
Support for the native importing of Figma design files to enable developers and designers to easily create a distinctive UI/UX for their product.
Support for reimporting changed Figma design files, decreasing the amount of time and effort it takes to adapt GUI applications to changing user needs.

Design Import Guide Using Figma, Photoshop & Sketch▸

Create repeatable, automated test cases saving on valuable time (...and money) using our integrated testing framework - Validator.
Test more frequently thereby catching issues earlier in the development process.
Test GUIs directly on your hardware ensuring it perform as intended.
Validator-Lua plugins are available for adding test points via Lua.
Generate test reports to share with other team members.

Learn more about Storyboard Validator▸

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Improved search and filtering capabilities within the IO connector.
Live and saved tabs now share a common code for the event list, providing a consistent experience and facilitating easier event location in projects with a high volume of events.
The Font Mapping process now displays previous mapping selections. This streamlines the importing and re-importing of changed files, reducing the likelihood of overlooking font files during the selection process.
Engine and JS debugger launch syncing has been enhanced removing the need for an NPM install command before launching an application with JS debugger.
Enable/disable the option for scanning Lua files for reference images that are no longer needed, making image resource cleanup quicker.

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Top UX-led brands rely on Storyboard for their GUI development

Crank Software is trusted by thousands of customers, from Fortune 500s to the smallest of small businesses for their own and Crank-developed GUI for embedded devices.
Crank Storyboard is the #1 most preferred GUI design and development tool from leading semiconductor hardware partners.
Over 3M+ devices use Crank Storyboard to power rich graphical UI in consumer and industrial devices globally.
Storyboard won ‘Best in Show - Embedded World 2020’ - for reducing resource costs while maximizing GUI reusability.
Crank Storyboard’s collaborative workflow and unique rapid design import and iteration technology help speed up development time and time to market 10-15x faster than leading competitor GUI development alternatives.

The ultimate in sophisticated UX and performance with less programming effort.

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Broad hardware support

With its unique decoupled architecture, Storyboard-built GUI applications can move seamlessly between a wide range of hardware platforms, from MCUs to MPUs.

Our pre-built, optimized runtime engines enable the flexibility to develop UI applications once and deploy it to the hardware best suited for the product or range of products.

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OS agnostic platform

With Storyboard, you have a choice when it comes to selecting the UI-based OS that is best suited for your embedded project.

By establishing relationships with the top OS vendors, Crank enables you to develop optimized user experiences in resource-constrained targets including - QNX, FreeRTOS, Integrity, iTron, MQX, Segger, ThreadX, μClinux, µC/OS-II, µC/OS-III, VX Works, and XIP Linux... and more!

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Webinar

Learn about Storyboard's new streamlined Designer workflow and how it can help accelerate your GUI development in this webinar

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Validator - Automated UI Testing

Unleash The Potential of your embedded GUI with our new automated testing framework, Validator

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Import Design Files

Support for native importing of Figma, Photoshop or Sketch design files.

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Re-import photoshop and sketch content in Storyboard

We had 3 months to deliver on our technology concept car for CES. Choosing Storyboard for our UI development proved to be an excellent decision.

Andy Gyrc

QNX

We were able to get up and running within a few days, have fully functional prototype units available within a few months, and have a produt ready to launch in record time.

Rocko McCombs

Autometer

Crank provided the best 3rd party development team I've ever worked with. They delivered on their promises and ensured our product launched on time.

Rishi Siravuri

Emerson

Storyboard is by far the easiest and most lightweight front-end engine we've encountered. It's extremely stable. We will definitely continue using it in future products.

Henk Bezuidenhout

Embedded IQ

We couldn't have created our new product in 3 months without the speed-to-prototype of Storyboard.

Engineering Manager

Fortune 100 Manufacturer

For the first time ever, I’ve found a platform that allows me to prototype mobile solutions as quickly as I have been able to do for computer-based solutions.

Scot Sutherland

Pondera Solutions

The certainties Crank showed about Storyboard-built GUI apps — their small RAM footprint and low power consumption — were important factors in its selection for the Dash.

James Stemper

Stages Cycling

I definitely would say they exceeded our expectations. They were nailing it every time with the GUI.

Brian Gallagher

Aptera Motors

	Import graphics, Figma, PSD files, or Sketch documents directly with layers and names preserved
	Add animation to objects easily with built-in animation timeline
	Manage Iterations in a collaborative and parallel workflow without code disruption
	Automate Test & Validation of your prototype functionality with Validator