Qt from a Designer’s lens

Everything I’ve recently learned about Qt about UX designer and more…

Qt is an application to bridge the the gap between design handoff and coding. It is used a a plugin in Figma to export complicated prototypes and interactions into the Qt application in a simplified and automated way. Examples are variables, 3D animations, AR/VR and more. It provides the developers a QML or Python code to interactions that are otherwise very time consuming and complicated. It is widely used in industries such as medtech, automotive dashboards, industrial systems and advaced desktop applications.

It requires thinking in terms of states, animations, interaction behavior and hence frames as well as auto layout while designing is important. This means designers move from static design to functional UI thinking. Naming has to be clear as well for the application to identify the logic of how elements should behave. Some of the advanced features include 3D and 2D combination such as UI existing in a 3D space for example.

This feature helps in early validation. Issues can be detected well before actual development.

One of the drawback is a very tough workflow to implement changes in design after already being imported to Qt.

Lets end the blog with a few key advantages of Qt.