Incari´s CPO Alexander Grasse recently joined the Car Design News couch for an interview at the Autodesk Automotive Innovation Forum 2025. The key message: In todays HMI development, design, UX, and development still run in parallel instead of together. Incari Studio changes that.
Alexander shared insights into the current challenges of HMI development and how Incari Studio helps overcome them. The key message: In todays HMI development, design, UX, and development still mostly run in parallel. This leads to late UI/UX integration, limited time for testing, disconnected workflows, endless handovers, and slow feedback loops. These issues create bottlenecks that waste time, restrict creativity, and slow down innovation.
To make HMI development faster and more efficient, designers and engineers need to collaborate from day one. Incari Studio as HMI development platform makes this possible. Multimodal interactions, including audio, lighting, haptics, and sensors, are supported right from the start and can be tested in real time during the earliest stages of development.
Thanks to its high interoperability with tools like Autodesk VRED and Figma, Incari Studio closes the gap between visualization and implementation.
At the Autodesk Innovation Forum 2025 in Darmstadt, the spotlight was on the future of design, visualization, and digital prototyping. For Incari, it was a special honor to take the stage alongside our partner FORVIA, showing what it truly means to rethink HMI development.
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.”
Speech Recording now Available!
“From Concept to Cockpit – Setting New Standards in HMI Development”
Gert-Dieter Tuzar, Senior Expert HMI & UxD Forvia, and Osman Dumbuya, CEO at Incari
We’ve updated our tutorials! They show you how to effectively use Incari Studio as an HMI development platform, whether you're a designer, engineer, or developer.
We’ve just launched our updated Incari Studio Basic Tutorial Series on YouTube. It´s designed to help you get started faster and work smarter with our HMI development platform. Whether you’re a designer, engineer, or developer, these tutorials will guide you step-by-step through the essentials of Incari Studio.
Learn how to:
Import and manage assets
Work with vectors, images, and masks
Create powerful logic with Incari’s intuitive no-code tools
Build prototypes and full-scale multimodal HMIs
From first concept to final implementation, Incari Studio enables seamless collaboration across disciplines and accelerates your development process. Even if you already know your way around Incari, this series offers helpful tips and deeper insights to bring your HMI projects to the next level.
With Incari Studio, Incari´s no-code HMI development platform, the digital instrument cluster for the EV converted Restomod Renault R5 GTL had been developed by Incari and R-Fit. With the custom-developed „RetroBox”, Incari enabled seamless connectivity for all types of inputs, whether vintage or modern.
Incari cooperated with Factory Unit, 2CV Méhari Club Cassis, L2Concept and R-FIT to electrify a Renault 5 GTL for the television show, Vintage Mecanic on French channel RMC Découvert. The Incari team took on the challenge of integrating 1970s instrument signals alongside the requirements of the EV drivetrain and modern convenience features in a classic car.
From analog to digital with Incari Studio
To tackle the R5 project, the analogue speedometer was replaced with a digital screen, which provides relevant information at all times to enhance the driving experience. One of the key features of this instrument cluster is the possibility to change the design from classic (analog style) to modern (digital). Incari Studio played a key role in bringing the project from concept to reality in a very short timeframe. This led to a lower cost for the entire project.
From Incari Studio…
…to the R5 GTL cockpit.
Essential information, such as battery charge status, has been integrated into the HMI.
For an enhanced driving experience, the driver can switch between a modern digital design and a classic analog look.
The iconic R5 GTL has been converted to electric.
Retrofit is an excellent solution for extending a vehicle’s lifespan.
Celso Albuquerque, Managing Director of Incari Labs, Incari´s innovation hub in Sophia Antipolis, France, commented: “Incari´s development platform has allowed us to “Restomod” the Renault 5 in a sensitive fashion, keeping the look and feel of the original instrumentation but bringing in driver displays that the original Renault engineers in the 1970s could never have dreamed of being possible. We had a bespoke task, with a short time frame and a limited budget, and Incari delivered a stunning driver information system that feels perfectly suited to this updated classic.”
The finished restomod Renault 5 EV was featured on the Vintage Mecanic TV program, which was broadcast at Christmas 2024 in France.
Moderator and French TV personality François Allain with the retrofitted R5 GTL.
Typography in HMI development becomes even more efficient: Incari Studio now supports Variable Fonts.
Incari now supports Variable Fonts. Variable Fonts consist of a single font file, reducing storage requirements and shortening the loading times of HMI applications. One font file is enough to dynamically adjust all styles and weights within Incari Studio.
This not only optimizes the workflow but is also particularly beneficial for devices with limited storage or real-time environments where fast loading times are crucial.
Variable Fonts provide maximum flexibility, allowing fonts to seamlessly adapt to different scenarios without the need to upload a separate file for each variation.
Another advantage is the enhanced Figma integration: Incari Studio 2024.1 seamlessly adopts Figma typography settings without requiring font replacements. This ensures a smooth and consistent design transfer, enabling effortless further processing within Incari Studio.
The new Visual Logic Debugging feature in Incari Studio 2024.1 provides a powerful way to visualize and control the execution flow of logic.
The new Visual Logic Debugging feature in Incari Studio 2024.1 provides a powerful way to visualize and control the execution flow of logic. It allows stepping into logic blocks, which enables early error diagnosis and improved inspection.
Execution Flow: The execution flow precisely shows what happens and when in the code. Inconsistencies are directly visible in Incari Studio.
Traceability: The traceability is significantly increased. This enables more efficient and error-reducing development.
Breakpoints: Breakpoints allow you to stop on a node, inspect it, and execute the logic step by step.
Inspection: During the inspection, you can view the values of the inputs and outputs of each nodes to troubleshoot errors or make adjustments.
Logic creation is significantly simplified, making HMI development with Incari Studio easier and more efficient than ever before.
One of the new key features Incari 2024.1 is the localization support. It simplifies the translation of projects into multiple languages while reducing project complexity.
The integration into Incari Studio empowers users to control and customize localization settings directly within their project’s logic flow. Additionally, the new feature automatically detects errors or missing translations, ensuring a more precise and efficient localization process. This leads to shorter development times and fewer localization errors.
The HALF (Helpful-Affordable-Local-Fun) demonstrator was first presented at the recent Viva Technology in Paris. Developed in Antibes in collaboration with Incari Labs, L2concept, 2cv Mehari Club Cassis, and Sophia Antipolis, it sets new standards for connected, intuitive vehicle interiors, integrated into the iconic Mehari Eden.
During the filming of the December episode of Vintage Mecanic, we had the opportunity to breathe new life into a legendary Renault 5 GTL together with our partners. At the same time, we took the chance to introduce our “HALF Eden” demonstrator to moderator and French TV personality François Allain.
The HALF (Helpful-Affordable-Local-Fun) demonstrator was first presented at the recent Viva Technology in Paris. Developed in Antibes in collaboration with Incari Labs, L2concept, 2cv Mehari Club Cassis, and Sophia Antipolis, it sets new standards for connected, intuitive vehicle interiors, integrated into the iconic Mehari Eden.
Alexander Grasse, Celso Albuquerque, François ALLAIN and David Carvalho during the filming for ‘Vintage Mecanic’.
The HALF Eden showcases the mobility of tomorrow and promises to turn every journey into a unique and personalized experience, tailored to the needs and desires of each driver and passenger.
The front face and headlights of the HALF Eden are replaced by a dot matrix screen. This screen comes to life through embedded AI technologies, with the headlights transforming into expressive eyes that change their expressions based on interactions with occupants and passersby.
The core of the system is an innovative steering wheel with an integrated smartphone, a vertical central touchscreen on the dashboard, and a long display strip running across the dashboard to the base of the windshield.
Incari played a key role in the development by enabling the intuitive and seamless integration of all functions and animations via Incari Studio, all through a single user interface. This technology not only ensures modern design but also introduces a completely new form of vehicle interaction that revolutionizes the driving experience. The project was completed with Incari Studio in less than 2 months.
We are excited to announce our new partnership between Toradex and Incari! Together, we are setting new standards in the development of Human-Machine Interfaces and driving innovation across various industries. By combining cutting-edge software with robust hardware, we are opening up entirely new possibilities in HMI development.
Toradex is a leading provider of embedded hardware and software solutions, offering a comprehensive portfolio of System-on-Modules (SoMs) and Single-Board Computers (SBCs). These are used in industries such as automotive, medical technology, industrial automation, and transportation. The reliable and high-performance products from Toradex provide the ideal foundation for HMI projects.
Incari Studio: Intuitive HMI Development Without Coding
With Incari Studio, we have created an all-in-one development platform that allows companies to develop multimodal HMIs from concept to implementation. Our no-code approach significantly simplifies the development process and promotes seamless collaboration between designers and engineers. This enables modern and user-friendly HMIs to be realized faster and more efficiently.
A Perfect Synergy for HMI Implementation
By combining the hardware from Toradex with Incari Studio, developers can now create powerful and intuitive HMIs in less time and at lower costs. This partnership leverages the strengths of both companies to offer innovative solutions for the technological challenges of the future.
Recent Projects Showcasing Incari’s Innovation with Toradex Hardware
3D Application for Digital Dental Impressions | Apalis iMX8QM
In collaboration with our partner CONZE Informatik GmbH, we developed an HMI for a 3D digital dental impression application in just two days. The demo ran on an Apalis iMX8QM, showcasing how quickly and cost-effectively HMIs for medical technology can be created using Incari Studio.
Digital Car Cockpit | 3x Ixora Carrier Boards with Apalis TK1
Incari developed the entire digital cockpit and HMI for the Piëch GT in a record time of just six months. This project demonstrates the power of our cutting-edge development approach, enabling high-end automotive interfaces with unparalleled efficiency.
User Interface (UI) for eVTOL | Ixora Carrier Board with Apalis iMX8QM
Incari designed a dynamiconboard display for an eVTOL aircraft, integrating real-time data from onboard sensors and peripherals. During flight, the UI utilizes augmented reality to overlay graphics and 3D assets, including multiple camera views. Additionally, the interface is fully interactive, communicating directly with the hardware via the standard NavLink protocol, developed by MC CLIC experts.
At Incari, we’re thrilled to have been part of an exciting project that blends the past with the future. In collaboration with our great partners 2cv Mehari Club Cassis, Link2concept, Factory Unit, and R-FIT, we helped electrify a vintage late 70s Renault R5 GTL for the popular french TV show "Vintage Mecanic", bringing this iconic classic car into the modern age.
The overall restomod design was proposed by Alan Derosier, a renowned French automotive designer known for his innovative and creative approach to car design, including the iconic Legende Automobiles Turbo 3.
The challenge? – Integrating cutting-edge technology into a vintage car without losing its classic charm.
Thanks to Incari Studio, our all-in-one HMI development platform, we were able to replace the original analog speedometer with a fully digital interface. Additionally, with our custom-developed Incari RetroBox, we enabled seamless connectivity for all types of inputs, whether vintage or modern.
This innovation ensures the driver always has relevant, real-time data at their fingertips, enhancing the driving experience without compromising on the look and feel of the original vehicle.
Celso Albuquerque, our Managing Director of Incari Labs, shared: “Our platform allowed us to “Restomod” the Renault 5 in a sensitive manner, keeping the spirit of the original design while incorporating displays the engineers of the 1970s could never have imagined.”
This project highlights how modern HMI technology can seamlessly blend with classic automotive design. A truly exciting example of how innovation and tradition can come together to create something exceptional.
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