6/02/2011

Reskinning the Corvette: 4 people, one month, no QNX experience

At QNX, we often claim that it's easy for automotive customers to customize our platform with their own look-and-feel. But how easy is it, really? Do customers simply need to be good UI/UX developers, or do they have to be QNX gurus as well?

It was time to put the claim to the test. So we called up Lixar, a local company with mobile UI experience, and asked them to reskin the multimedia head unit that QNX created for its Corvette concept car.

The folks at Lixar didn't have QNX experience. They didn't have any automotive experience, either. What they did have was 30 days — a fraction of the time typically allocated to creating an automotive UI...


 

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