Earlier this year, we visited Toradex at its headquarters in Horw, Switzerland. We saw up close how the team brings hardware, software and services together to make embedded product development simpler.
We came back with a clear picture of where our work fits. Teams building embedded devices need solid foundations. They also need someone focused on the people who will use the product every day.
Today we're announcing that UXDivers is part of the Toradex Partner Network. You can read Toradex's announcement and find us in the partner directory.
Toradex describes its partners as the people product teams turn to when they "need to go beyond" the hardware and software it provides. Our role is specific: product design, UX/UI and interface development for embedded and complex software products.
A device has to work at two levels. The platform has to be reliable, secure and maintainable for years. The interface has to make complex tasks clear for the people operating it.
Toradex covers the first: computer-on-modules, carrier boards and the software ecosystem around them. We cover the second: understanding users and their tasks, designing workflows and screens, and implementing the UI so it behaves on the real display the way it did in the design.
For product teams, that means a shorter path between the two: fewer handoffs where design intent gets lost, and earlier validation on target hardware.
Torizon is a central part of Toradex's offer. Torizon OS is a Linux distribution for the device that runs applications in containers, with tooling that integrates with Visual Studio Code.
Torizon also covers the device's life in the field. It provides over-the-air and offline updates with automatic rollback if an update fails, remote access for support, and fleet monitoring. Its update system is based on the Uptane standard.
What Torizon doesn't define is the application itself: what it shows, how it responds, how people move through it. That is the layer we work on. Keeping the platform and the interface as distinct concerns makes each easier to build and to maintain.
Toradex lists medical and healthcare among the sectors Torizon is built for. The applications it names range from patient monitors and infusion pumps to laboratory robotics and PCR systems. In these products, reliability, security and long-term maintenance are baseline expectations. A platform with secure updates and fleet monitoring helps teams meet them, though it doesn't replace the device's own regulatory work.
Our part is the person at the screen. Clinicians and lab technicians often run multi-step procedures under time pressure. They need clear status, unambiguous controls and error messages that say what to do next. That is where interface design directly affects how safely and efficiently a device is used.
We know this context from our own projects. For Stellaromics, we designed and built the instrument control software for Pyxa, turning a research prototype into a product lab technicians can run.
Figma to Qt. We recently compared manual and plugin-assisted workflows for taking a Figma design to Qt. The study is covered in an interview on the Qt blog and in our whitepaper. The project was a three-screen embedded dashboard for The Climate Box, validated on a Toradex Verdin iMX8M Plus running Torizon OS.
The study showed where an assisted workflow saves the most time and where hand-built work remains. It also reflects how we work: find where design intent gets lost on the way to code, and protect visual fidelity on the actual device.
.NET and Avalonia. Our work also has deep roots in .NET UI, and we've been bringing that experience to embedded through Avalonia, which Toradex lists among the GUI options for Torizon. Our Avalonia demo app, Ambient Weather, runs on Toradex hardware and shows a .NET interface working on an embedded display.
Each project chooses its UI technology based on its own requirements. The partnership doesn't depend on any one framework.
Whether you're bringing a first device to market or improving the experience of one already in the field, we'd like to hear about it. We can help you define workflows, design the interface, and implement it on your target hardware.
Get in touch with UXDivers to start the conversation.
