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Making a lasting impression through animation

Strong user engagement is the key to understanding users and building a loyal audience. For every brand, company, and product this is a struggle. One way to create a higher level of engagement is by using dynamic elements in UI design, such as animations. This powerful tool can allow you to showcase your brand personality and create small but impactful interactions that stand out to audiences. Visual cues and animations can serve as a guide or highlight features of your UI. For example, with a progress bar or an animation to indicate success you create a tailored experience.

The Journal of the Association for Information Systems study on the Effects of Animation on Attentional Resources of Online Consumers concluded that dynamic elements increase user enjoyment and time spent on a page. When it comes to animation implementation there is one problem many designers and developers encounter – performance and efficiency. That is where Lottie comes in.

From a dinosaur to a puppy

GIF, video and image sequences, and more. There are multiple ways to export your animations, but with problems such as limited color availability and compression, they are likely to become low-quality and unscalable.

Lottie, developed in 2015 by Hernan Torrisi, is a file format that significantly decreases file sizes, loading, and shipping time while keeping the best possible quality. Named after Charlotte Reigners, a German silhouette animation pioneer, Lottie is a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) based animation file. This file format mixes vector raster elements and applies the animation at run time. Lottie is supported by many great design tools such as After Effects, Figma, and Canva. Why else do we think Lottie is great?

• Small file sized
• Increased loading speed
• Scaling without pixelation
• Easy to edit and convert into code
• Access to a large library of animations online

The Incari Studio 2022.2 and Lottie workflow

Sounds good right? Let’s go over how to employ your animation in our software. To start, add your Lottie animation to the Incari Studio Asset manager and create a Lottie Sprite. The Lottie Sprite Object allows you to incorporate any Lottie animation into your user interface. To create this object click the plus icon in the Scene Outliner and select Lottie Sprite Object. Drag the file from the Asset Manager into the Attribute Editor.

For more information on how to import and place Lottie animations in your project, you can check out our in-depth documentation article on Lottie, here.

From documentation to implementation

Lottie is a format that focuses on seamless project handoffs and easy implementation for developers. Create your animation with the design tool of your choice, and export your file as a Lottie to utilize dynamic elements for your interfaces.

Start playing around with Incari Studio 2022.2 with our 30-day free trial. Interested in purchasing a license for you and your team? Reach out to our sales team for more information on our enterprise plan.

从你的用户界面设计中获得更多

在设计用户界面时，可以在不同阶段使用各种二维和三维工具。 事实证明，将二维和三维元素结合起来是很困难的，会带来挑战。 Incari Studio 2022.2允许你通过在2D和3D工作流程之间有效切换并优雅地结合起来，从你的UI设计中获得更多。 所有这些都在一个工具中。

简化和优化工作流程

• 二维和三维的无缝互动
  无缝地将你的2D设计和物体放在3D场景的像素空间中，并在导入时对齐它们的位置。
• 提高了效率
  创建一个画布并轻松地添加2D组件，如按钮、文本字段输入和菜单。 你不再需要一个一个地创建元素。
• 外部设计方案的互操作性
  我们使项目的分享和工作变得容易。 从而消除了转换文件的需要。 将您的Figma或Adobe Photoshop设计直接导入Incari，并继续不间断地工作。
• 使用CSS进行定制
  有经验的CSS程序员可以定制并为Incari的GUI组件添加额外的样式。

迅速地结合2D和3D元素

现在比以往任何时候都更容易在3D场景中叠加你的2D场景。 例如，创建一个带有隐藏3D元素的简单UI菜单，可以通过创建一个占位符并将所需的3D场景导入该占位符来完成。 当你的菜单被展开时，你的3D对象将被看到，而不会影响质量。

Incari是您的解决方案

通过Incari studio，你能够为任何行业创建项目，而不需要编码知识。 从设计师到工程师，通过我们新推出的2D工作流程，我们在每个人之间创造了一个易于使用的、简化的协作。 如果你想更深入地了解我们的新2D场景，请参考指定的文档页面。

在这里下载Incari Studio 2022.2的30天免费试用版。 希望与Incari在您的最新HMI项目上合作？ 请联系我们的销售团队，了解有关我们企业计划的更多信息。

Easily create high-quality visuals

A post effect, also commonly known as a post-processing effect, is a visual effect that is placed over an object, scene, or image. Post effects visually manipulate light and darkness. Once applied, it will change the appearance of the selected component or scene. This operation occurs after the frame has been rendered. The effect interacts with the color value of each pixel to create the desired result.

Introducing Incari Studio post effects

With the 2022.2 release of Incari Studio, we have now added the possibility to employ post effects in your project. Here are the two main post effects that we have introduced:

• Bloom
  Bloom relates to light exposure and creates the effect of light bleeding onto surrounding areas and objects. Highlights over a specific threshold are blurred and brightened. The borders of these bright areas get a fringed or feathered light look.
• Lens flare
  Lens flares are rings or circles that provide a haze to your image or scene. This flare happens when a bright light source shines directly into the camera lens.

With future releases, we will continue to add new post effects to help you create even higher-quality visuals to stimulate the user experience and optimize your user interface designs.

Quickly and easily apply your post effects

Using the new Incari post effects is simple. To see all settings go to Global Preferences and open the View Port tab. Afterward, select Screens and now you can apply the desired post effect in your Attribute Manager. You can also add a drop shadow or glow effect by using a vector effect. You can manage the vector styling easily and adjust them to your needs in the Attribute Editor.

Incari increases efficiency and quality

Post effects elevate the look and feel of your design. By utilizing Incari Studio, your HMI projects will be reduced up to 70% in average development time.

Download your 30-day free trial of Incari Studio 2022.2 here. Looking to work together with Incari on your latest HMI project? Are you looking to work together with Incari on your latest HMI project? Reach out to our sales team for more information on our enterprise plan.

Every person has their own preferred workflow. The creation of HMI solutions involves a lot of different team members and departments. Tagging and grouping metadata makes applying operations and filtering much more organized and straightforward, regardless of your department and role within a project.

Metadata: the matriarch of all things data

Metadata refers to data containing information about other data. Metadata is a summary of various pieces of data.

Accommodating changes and workflow optimization

Tagging provides a simple way of assigning labels to objects within your scene. A tag creates a relationship between them. If you are, for example, looking for objects with shared properties, you can efficiently search in the logic and filter based on their communal tag.

Assigning tags is done in the Attribute Editor. Filtering and applying changes can now be done quickly and efficiently in your project logic. Select the objects within your scene that you want to alter by selecting their shared tag and applying the changes. The rest of your scene will stay unaffected.

Creating efficiency and simplicity with Incari Studio

Whether you are a designer, engineer, or supplier, Incari Studio has been developed to be used by everyone. No coding knowledge is needed, just a creative problem-solving mindset. The new Tagging system complements the seamless workflow between all teams and departments.

Download your 30-day free trial of Incari Studio here. Looking to work together with Incari on your latest HMI project? Reach out to our sales team for more information on our enterprise plan.

When I started working in the 3D industry around 8 years ago, there were two widely used 3D model transferring routes, OBJ and FBX. This left two options – rebuilding assets if transferred between software or biting the bullet and leaving all designers to learn the same software. Today, there are more options and ways to seamlessly transfer and create high-quality graphics.

glTF, the Jpeg for 3D

A new file format is paving the way for software application file transfers. glTF, Graphics Language Transmission Format, is an open, royalty-free 3D Data Format with top-level elements like animation data, textures, materials, and object hierarchy, to name a few.

Easy to incorporate external 3D designs without retouching and modifying and memory efficient. This makes it a great candidate for web and cases of limited resources. glTF 2.0 now also supports modern physically-based rendering materials, compatible with all rendering APIs. The list of software supporting glTF is growing with some services even built around it, like Sketchfab.

The 3D artist’s bread and butter

PBR uses a physical understanding of light transport to define lighting rules for 3D-based images in the shading and rendering process. Visualizing material properties like roughness and metalness to create highly realistic 3D models.

The extension of PBR materials in Incari Studio offers even more customization. You can use texture for more granular control over spots of roughness. Think of black as 0% and white as 100%.

With the help of multiple textures, like color, roughness, and ambient occlusion, you create a PBR material. All textures are automatically mapped correctly in Incari with a dedicate PBR Shader. Creating higher visual fidelity and reducing manual work. Here is an example of an interactive render made with Incari Studio.

“With the newly introduced features, Incari Studio users will be able to import state-of-the-art 3D models, place and animate them with ease in the scene, then enrich them with interactivity via logic and finally create a reusable and customizable prefab that can be shared with other team member and across projects,” says Abdallah Huballah, CTO of Incari. “With Incari Studio 2022.1 users can focus more on their work and their creativity and less on the tool and the technology.“

Here is an overview of what’s new in Incari Studio 2022.1.

Try it out!

The biggest improvement: Prefabs

Prefabs enable the user to create multiple individual instances of a combination of objects, and then make changes that are enacted across all instances. This allows one to easily create several objects with the same functionality that retain unique properties via overrides. Moreover, Prefabs have their logic encapsulated within them. Any alterations in the Prefab properties or its logic affect all of its instances.

This makes it significantly easier for users to build increasingly complex applications without repetitive logic or inconsistent components. In most projects, many objects (such as buttons, list items, toggles and more) are designed with small alterations from a base component. Prefabs bring the same functionality to Incari Studio – enabling you to carry over base logic and design between components with a single click. Packing all of the assets and logic into a single exportable object, Prefabs are significantly easier to share, import and export, allowing for a better collaborative workflow and enabling users and teams to build a consistent component library. In a real-world use case, having built Prefabs for buttons, sliders and a slider bar, it would take the user only a few clicks to build a multi-page HMI system from scratch.

Local / Global transformations for more freedom

In previous versions of Incari Studio, object transformations could only be made in global space – that is, with respect to a global origin. This new release adds a new mode for transformations: local. With local transformations, it is possible to rotate and translate objects with respect to their local origin.

As projects get more complex, it is difficult and unintuitive to modify transformations within the project scopes. The introduction of the local transformation mode gives the user more control for rotating and translating objects. Now, building a sliding carousel menu can be done with simple offsets from the parent container or a gauge with multiple moving sprites can be easily transformed with local transformations on the appropriate axis. Working with local transformations enables you to compartmentalize and expand the scope of your projects without the need for redundant calculations or modifications.

Plugins for more control over resources

This release introduces Plugins, which allow activating or deactivating modules of Incari Studio as per the needs of the user, meaning that you only include the functionality you need – optimizing hardware resources and reducing visual clutter in the Toolbox and building the foundation for a self-scalable structure.

Incari Studio is designed to be the go-to tool for building functional systems wherever humans and machines interact. As we expand our feature base to cater to a wider range of requirements, we believe it is important to give the user the freedom to build their own Incari Studio by making it as comprehensive as they need it to be. That’s why, with this new feature you can disable a communication module you don’t need or add a whole new Plugin for your needs, for example.

glTF support for efficient transmission and loading of 3D scenes and models

Incari Studio also now supports importing and rendering glTF files. glTF is a file format for efficient transmission and loading of 3D scenes and models – often called the “JPEG of 3D”. It packages all features into one file, such as geometry, textures, and shaders. The preferred version in Incari Studio is glTF 2.0.

This new file type makes it easier to incorporate external 3D designs that are ready to use without retouching them. Acknowledging the increasing use of glTF models in user-facing software applications, Incari Studio now enables you to natively interact with them. Since glTF models have their shading, masks and such already baked in, this makes it super easy to use pre-built models from various resources without making any other modifications.

New extended PBR material for realistic appearance of 3D models

The new extended Physically-Based Rendering of Materials (PBR) offers more customization options than in previous versions, ensuring that Incari Studio is in line with the conventional standards of other real-time rendering engines. Incari Studio now implements the metallic-roughness PBR workflow by allowing users to use maps for these material slots as well as ambient occlusion. This means that 3D objects have more visual fidelity with less strain on resources.

Using PBR, you can now work on improved and more realistic materials, simulating the reaction of objects to the flow of light in the actual world. Using this powerful feature, users can shade their models and render them using standards they are accustomed to without ever leaving Incari Studio.

 

Monaco/Berlin (15.6.2022)

The MC-one prototype, a one-seater electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL), has been presented by MC CLIC at the Top Marques Monaco show. It is the first project to arise from the UI development cooperation between Berlin software company Incari, French prototype development company L2concept and Factory Unit.

“The interface design of the MC-one paves the way for the future of the industry,” says Osman Dumbuya, Founder and CEO of Incari. “Our collaboration is pioneering the way human-machine interaction will be experienced in the future. With Incari technology we push the limits on what is already possible today in UI design for all vehicle types from cars to eVTOLs.”

 

Incari technology enables a revolutionary fully customizable interface

Developed with Incaris software platform Incari Studio, the proof of concept for the future of urban mobility offers a user interface (UI) as it has existed so far only in Hollywood productions. The team created a dynamic onboard display that leverages onboard sensors and peripherals as well as real time information to the passenger. During the flight, the UI leverages augmented reality to deliver an overlay of graphics and 3D assets including different camera views. Additionally, the UI is dynamic and interacts directly with the hardware through the standard NavLink communication protocol coded by MC CLIC experts.

Incari’s UI solution offers a system of interfaces connected in motion with a mix of graphic media content and no-code logic. Offering more than just a few motion graphics on a screen, it pushes beyond common interface standards. The display of the MC-one is a fully customizable interface activated by a unique NFT, which owners receive when they purchase the eVTOL. The NFT also functions as the key to initiate the onboard system and to register the passengers certified journey plan.

The autonomous eVTOL combines next generation UI with machine learning

The MC-one is a proof of concept for the future of urban mobility. It can carry up to 400 kilograms, flies autonomously, and enables anyone to move from point A to B without worrying about infrastructure or traffic. For now, the MC-one is intended solely for private environments but offers a fully accessible solution for early-adopters and pioneers who want to experience the future today. The MC-one is available for pre-order now at a cost ranging from 140.000 Euro to 180.00 Euro without specific requests on the design. The delivery will start in Q2 2023.

“The MC-one prototype combines a next generation UI with machine learning processes. We believe it is the first concept of its type,” says David Carvalho, Managing Director at L2concept. “This proof of concept is not only a step towards the future, but a revolutionary leap to bring back creativity in UI practices.”

The MC-one celebrated its premiere at the MC CLIC boot at the 17th edition of Top Marques Monaco, one of the world’s most exclusive shows for supercars, motorbikes, aerial vehicles as well as superboats and waterboats. The show takes place on the Esplanade of the Grimaldi Forum under the High Patronage of HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco.

About Incari

Incari was founded in April 2021 by Osman Dumbuya and Alexander Grasse, having evolved from the predecessor company CGI Studio GmbH. The company is based in Berlin and has offices in France and Poland. About 50 people work for Incari.

About L2concept

L2concept is a Transportation Design and mobility experience prototype company founded by Alain Grandjean in 2011 and joined by former Pininfarina SVP Design David Carvalho last year. The offices are located in Los Angeles and the French Riviera in Antibes, near Nice, and benefit from its proximity to the Sophia Antipolis Science and Technology Park, an ecosystem that curates the most advanced AI-based technologies and solutions in Europe. L2concept helps you communicate excitement and interest by involving human factors at the core of your product development strategy: Test Early, Fail Often and Succeed Faster.

About MC CLIC

MC CLIC is a company based in Monaco that, for more than 10 years, has created all kinds of sophisticated land, air and submarine drones. They have strong expertise on developing systems capable of carrying out heavy-duty work for specific applications. The MC-one is the result of consolidated advanced knowledge in this field and of Erwan Grimaud’s recognized experience as a professional advanced drone pilot.

 

June, 6, 2022.

Incari has formed a partnership with the renowned prototype development company L2concept. In the future, Incari technology will be used to develop trailblazing Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) for the French company’s visionary show cars.

“Digital technologies have changed the automotive industry. Today’s visionary show cars also need innovative interior interfaces to make the future tangible,” says Osman Dumbuya, founder and CEO of Incari. “With our technology, new ideas can be implemented in record time, enabling our partner L2concept to set new standards in the industry as early as the prototype stage.”

Fewer personnel, faster and more flexible HMI development process

The development process breaks with the established methods of traditional manufacturers, with designers and software developers no longer working sequentially on a new vehicle. Instead, they collaborate from the very beginning in a shared software environment. This approach helps them to subsequently avoid time-consuming and cost-intensive modifications that may result during the process. Using conventional development methods, changing the design of just one element often takes up to 14 days and generates costs in the five-figures. With Incari Studio, changes can be made in a matter of minutes.

Incari’s software also takes a 3D-first approach, offering entirely new possibilities in usability – especially in combination with augmented reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR). The Incari method promises a reduction in HMI development times of up to 50 percent, with lower personnel requirements and higher quality. The Berlin-based company was already involved in the UX development of the Piëch GT.

L2concept designs the in-car experience of the future with Incari

The L2concept team now trusts Incari Studio. The company, based in Antibes, France, as well as in California (USA), has already worked in the automotive sector with brands such as Lexus, Mercedes, Renault, Venturi and Toyota. However, L2concept also develops submarine and boat prototypes and designs medical devices, electrical appliances, furniture and new forms of mobility – for example eVTOLs (electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing aircraft). The prototypes are manufactured by Factory Unit, part of the group and within the same space.

“The partnership with Incari enables us to visualize the future in a new way. With the know-how in AI and machine learning technologies coming from the local ecosystem in Sophia Antipolis, we have the ambition to transform the visionary ideas of our customers into a working proof of concept that is ready to learn and operate services. With Incari’s technology, we become pioneers of the next mobility experience that is enabled by data and connectivity from the prototype stage. This enables us to holistically redesign the interaction between human and machine in the exterior as well as in the interior,” says David Carvalho, Managing Director at L2concept.

About Incari

Incari was founded in April 2021 by Osman Dumbuya and Alexander Grasse, having evolved from the predecessor company CGI Studio GmbH. The company is based in Berlin and has offices in France and Poland. About 50 people work for Incari.

About L2concept

L2concept is a Transportation Design and mobility experience prototype company founded by Alain Grandjean in 2011 and joined by former Pininfarina SVP Design David Carvalho last year.  The offices are located in Los Angeles and the French Riviera in Antibes, near Nice, and benefit from its proximity to the Sophia Antipolis Science and Technology Park, an ecosystem that curates the most advanced AI-based technologies and solutions in Europe. L2concept helps you communicate excitement and interest by involving human factors at the core of your product development strategy: Test Early, Fail Often and Succeed Faster.

Our vision as Incari is an European operating system that does not only embodies the current zeitgeist of its own digital decade but also secures competitiveness in Europe as a business location.

Who owns the digital world? In the perception of many, probably those who can shape it with their power. And in the digital world, that is neither the sovereign nor the state. Rather, it is the platforms of international technology corporations such as Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Alibaba. “This results in problems relevant to democracy — both in terms of visibility determined by algorithms and in terms of the identity-forming function of the community,” explains our CEO Osman Dumbuya.

The path to a technologically sovereign society

We at Incari are working on our own European operating system and want to create a sustainable alternative to Windows, iOS, Android, and Asian platform models. This is also the direction we’re taking at Scale-Up Europe, the European innovation initiative by French President Emmanuel Macron.

The basis for this is a completely new digital ecosystem that conserves resources and is based on five pillars: an application development platform, a digital marketplace, proprietary hardware devices, computer components, and the Incari OS, a European operating system.

With a European operating system, we are moving technological sovereignty from the enterprise to the individual level. We are ending the one-sided dependence on current offerings and their technical linkages. We’re betting on a restart that unleashes the full potential hidden in an operating system.

European Data Security Shelter

A European operating system creates a protective space for data security, data authenticity, and the property rights of users, thus defying the seemingly overpowering logic of the market.

Incari OS is a completely new development and works particularly fast, energy-efficient, and can be operated visually-intuitively. We are advocating the empowerment of citizens in Europe and giving them nothing less than the opportunity to finally take responsibility for their data.

Civey survey shows desire for Europe’s digital decade

A recent representative survey conducted by the opinion research institute Civey in April 2022 shows that that we are striking a chord with the German population with this idea: More than 70 percent of respondents would prefer a European operating system over American or Chinese providers.

 

 

The results reveal users’ deep mistrust of the business practices of Microsoft, Google, Huawei, and Alibaba. Around 68 percent of respondents stated that they would use a European alternative based on values such as freedom and legal certainty. The same (or better) functionality, data security, and data sovereignty are the decisive arguments for changing the operating system.

“Only if we as a society become self-determined in our digital actions, i.e. technologically sovereign, can we secure Europe’s economic future and our prosperity in a globalized networked world in the face of aging digital infrastructures and an increasingly volatile geopolitical landscape,” says Osman Dumbuya. At Incari, we want to contribute to this.

 

 

Plea for a technologically sovereign Europe

For Europe Day 2022, we as Incari are now publishing a first impetus: an ‘Appeal for a technologically sovereign Europe’. With this whitepaper, we explain why technological sovereignty is a crucial milestone for Europe. The digital paper also shows what obstacles lie ahead on the path to a technologically sovereign society and what needs to be done and thought about — politically and economically — to resolve them.

Read our latest whitepaper now:

English >> An appeal for a technologically sovereign Europe.
German >> Plädoyer für ein technologisch souveränes Europa.