The Autodesk Innovation Forum 2025 (AIF) brought together industry leaders to shape the future of design, visualization, and digital prototyping. We were proud to take the stage alongside our partner FORVIA, showcasing how design and HMI development go hand in hand with Incari Studio.
FORVIA is an automotive technology supplier pioneering transformative solutions: safe, sustainable, customized, and affordable. With a history stretching back more than a century, they are a global sustainable mobility leader. A position giving them a decisive role in shaping the future of the industry.
Fragmented Workflows Due to Late UI/UX Integration
Classic development processes are often fragmented, with late-stage UI integration, tool-switching, and multiple alignment loops. To fully realize FORVIAS vision, HMI development needed to become more integrated into their existing design workflows, using trusted tools like Autodesk VRED.
The goal: a smoother, more connected process that starts much earlier, running in parallel with overall product development. FORVIA set out to transform this approach by integrating HMI development directly into their toolchain, with Autodesk VRED continuing to play a central role.
That’s where Incari Studio came in.
With the native integration into VRED, Incari Studio brings visualization artists and UX/UI designers together on one shared platform. Workflows run in parallel from day 1, enabling seamless collaboration and faster feedback loops. Multimodal interactions such as lighting, audio, haptics, and sensors can be implemented and tested in real time from the earliest stages of development. That makes Incari Studio the ideal tool for prototyping.
The challange: Fast rebuilt of the CES 2023 demonstrator
To put Incari Studio to the test, FORVIA challenged us to integrate the UI of their CES 2023 demonstrator — fully functional and multimodal — within a short timeframe and to rebuild the interaction logic from scratch based on FORVIA’s specifications. All UI design assets were provided by FORVIA and seamlessly integrated using Incari Studio. Together with VRED, we delivered the updated demonstrator in just 1.5 weeks.
This success story was presented live on stage at AIF 2025 and was met with enthusiastic feedback from across the industry. It proved that the vision of a more efficient, agile, and streamlined development process, starting from the earliest design stages, can become reality through the combined strengths of Incari Studio, and VRED.
AIF 2025 Presentation:
“From Concept to Demonstration – Seamless Integration of Incari Studio and VRED in Automotive Design”In this joint presentation, Gert-Dieter Tuzar (Senior Expert UX / HMI at FORVIA) and Osman Dumbuya (CEO at Incari) demonstrated how HMI development can be fundamentally improved.
Gert-Dieter Tuzar highlighted the typical challenges of traditional HMI workflows, from late UI integration to fragmented tools and misaligned processes. Osman Dumbuya presented Incari Studio as a powerful tool: a visual, no-code development platform that integrates directly with Autodesk VRED.
Together, they showed how FORVIA and Incari successfully rebuilt a fully functional HMI demonstrator in just 1.5 weeks, proving that design, prototyping, and validation can happen faster, earlier, and more efficiently than ever before.
Thank you, FORVIA, for taking us along on this journey.
FORVIA is currently evaluating how Incari Studio can be integrated into their standard development workflow. This partnership marks a shift in thinking, away from siloed workflows toward integrated, collaborative, and accelerated HMI development. What FORVIA and Incari presented on stage at AIF 2025 wasn’t just a success story, it was a real-world example of how modern HMI development should work.
“Working with Incari has been a positive experience,” said Cédric Habert, Industrial Design Director at FORVIA. “Incari Studio as an HMI development platform has exceeded our expectations. It clearly demonstrated added value in terms of time and cost efficiency. The entire development process becomes leaner, more flexible, and significantly more agile. What we’ve seen so far is so promising that we’re now evaluating how Incari Studio could become a standard part of our internal processes. Thanks to its seamless integration with VRED, already a core part of our workflow, Incari Studio appears to be the ideal addition. It closes exactly the gaps that have slowed us down in the past and enables us to develop the multimodal cockpits of the future: Faster, more flexibly, and on an entirely new level.”
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“From Concept to Cockpit – Setting New Standards in HMI Development”
Gert-Dieter Tuzar, Senior Expert HMI & UxD Forvia, and Osman Dumbuya, CEO at Incari