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▸

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  • 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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Download Storyboard 30 Days Free Trial

 

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tachometer-alt-fastest (1) Automate Test & Validation of your prototype functionality with Validator
 

Integrated testing framework built specifically for Storyboard

Crank's automated GUI testing framework, Validator was developed to provide a streamlined way to test, enhance, and deploy exceptional GUI experiences. 

Enhance your GUI application's functionality, speed up the development cycle, and get to market faster with Crank Storyboard & Validator.

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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