October 2026
Qt published our Figma to Qt study
Qt interviewed us on what Figma to Qt saves, and what it doesn't. Plus the .NET, MAUI, Avalonia and Blazor updates worth your attention.
Most of the distance between a design and a product is not in the design. It's in everything that comes after: exporting, rebuilding, testing on real hardware, and keeping up with platforms that keep moving.
This edition follows that path. We start with what we measured when we built the same embedded dashboard twice, move through hardware and tooling, and finish with the platform changes arriving in .NET 11, MAUI and Blazor that are worth planning for now.
Qt published our Figma to Qt study
Qt's blog interviewed our co-founder Pablo Germano about the study behind our whitepaper: the same embedded dashboard for The Climate Box, built twice on a Toradex Verdin iMX8M Plus, once by hand in QML and once with the Figma to Qt plugin. Standard screens and components took about 70% less time (3.3x faster), but custom work was 48% of the effort, so the project total dropped about 20%. The article also covers how we prepared the Figma file and where the plugin fell short.
Read the Qt article | Get the whitepaper
UXDivers joins Toradex Partner Network
Toradex brings the embedded hardware and Torizon; we bring product design and interface development. The goal: fewer handoffs and earlier validation on the target hardware.
What's changing in the ecosystem
Hot Reload for Avalonia
Now generally available: .axaml and C# changes apply to a running app without restarting it. It's in the paid plans and still an early release, so try it on a real app first.
Announcing .NET 11 Release Candidate 2
RC2 shipped October 13 with a go-live license. A good moment to run your build and tests against the new SDK before .NET 11 launches at .NET Conf, November 10–12.
Get your .NET MAUI app ready for Xcode 27
On Xcode 27 and iOS 27, MAUI apps using the classic lifecycle can show the splash screen and then close. The fix is adopting the UIScene lifecycle; check every build that ships.
Build agentic UI with the new Blazor AI components
Experimental components cover streamed responses, tool calls and human approvals. They're prerelease, so keep them to prototypes. The hard part is designing the interaction, not the code.
Working on something similar?
Taking a design to a device, or planning your move to .NET 11, MAUI, Avalonia or Blazor? Tell us where you are and we'll share what we've seen work.
