In Automotive Retailing UX Rubber Hits the CX Road
ICS' work in automotive touches both UX and CX.
ICS Insight Blog
Informed Opinions and Industry Insight on Tech, UX and Product Development
Connecting tech leaders with insight to move the needle, and developers and designers with inspiration to build really cool touchscreen-driven stuff people will love.
Beautiful But Dangerous: Cinematic Interfaces in the Real World
The dangers of intentionally sacrificing usability for the sake of visual coolness.
Questions & Answers from Qt for Beginners Part 4 - Doing More
More of your Qt Questions answered in Part 5 of our QA series.
The Lite Mobile Site: Designing a User Experience for Slower Internet
Global expansion of mobile phone use has many subscribers operating on a slower Internet, are you designing UX for them too? Read more...
Questions & Answers from Qt for Beginners Part 3 - QML and Qt Quick
Ask your Qt Questions for Part 5 Q&A.
Did the Auto Industry’s iPhone Moment Just Happen?
I was present at the 2007 MacWorld Expo where the iPhone was announced.
Qt and OpenGL: Loading a 3D Model with Open Asset Import Library (ASSIMP) - Part 2
In this blog, we're going to cover how to write a program to actually render these models.
Media Manager for Automotive Infotainment (Part 4)
In this blog post, we will explain the core architecture of the media manager.
Left Out in the Kold: The User Experience of Keurig
UX design lessons learned from a cup of Joe.
Questions & Answers from Qt for Beginners Part 2 - Widgets
In the case of designing an application for an embedded platform instead of desktop, are there any differences in the approach?
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 8 - Reduce Short Term Memory Load
Eight Golden Rules - Eight is great.. Read the final entry on this intelligent series of user experience principles to help you make your UX great! Read more...
Questions & Answers from Qt for Beginners Part 1 - Overview and Key Concepts
Questions and Answers from Qt for Beginners Part 1 - Overview and Key Concepts
What's New in Qt 5.6.0: Logging to syslog and journald
In this blog post, we'll look at how the new features of Qt in version 5.6.0.
Questions & Answers from Qt for Beginners Part 1 - Overview and Key Concepts
Questions and Answers from Qt for Beginners Part 1 - Overview and Key Concepts
Automotive IVI Media Manager Announcements
Look no further when looking to build a media manager for automotive IVI...ICS just released open source code and all of our events around our Media Manager. Read more and download the code!
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 7 - Support Internal Locus of Control
Do you have an internal or external locus of control? What do you users have? Find out the importance of designing UX for this one thing....read more...
Render to Texture: Fixed Function vs. Modern OpenGL
A look at an advanced feature in OpenGL -- render-to-texture.
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 6 - Permit Easy Reversal of Actions
A look at Ben Shneiderman's sixth rule of interface design: allow easy reversal of actions.
Media Manager for Automotive Infotainment (Part 2)
In this blog post, we will show how to address some of the challenges when multiple users bring devices into the car.
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 5 - Make Errors as Impossible as Possible
Check out the fifth of Schneiderman's Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design.
A Media Manager for Automotive Infotainment (Part 1)
We came up with an interesting architecture that addresses many of the vexing issues with existing IVI solutions.
Fixed Function to Modern OpenGL (Part 4 of 4)
Texture setup in modern OpenGL is nearly equivalent to what you are used to in the fixed-function API.
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 4 - Design Dialogs to Yield Closure
In this blog post, we will explore the fourth rule of Schneiderman's Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design.
The Oprofile Profiler
Integrated Computer Solutions. Be Open (Source) to new testing tools...see how useful Oprofile can be! Check this blog out!
Fixed Function to Modern OpenGL (Part 3 of 4)
Next up, we're going to talk about OpenGL lighting, its origins, and theory and how to implement that theory in your shader programs.
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 3 - Provide Informative Feedback
In this blog post, we will explore the third rul of Schniederman's Eight Golden Rules to Interface Design.
Fixed Function to Modern OpenGL (Part 2 of 4)
In this blog post, we will compare and contrast Fixed-Function OpenGL with Modern OpenGL.
Fixed Function to Modern OpenGL (Part 1 of 4)
In this blog post, we will outline differences between Fixed-Function OpenGL with Modern OpenGL.