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The First Design Tool for Real-World Experiences

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Design That Runs on Real Devices

Clate is the first AI-native UX design tool for crafting the full user experience of embedded and HMI applications, without writing code. Designers who have never touched Qt will feel at home, confident that what they hand off is working QML for developers to build around.

Design for Real-World Devices

Built by Designers for Designers

AI is Built Into the Workspace

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Real Code Behind Every Design

As you craft the experience of your HMI applications, in the background, Clate matches your design to QML code - Qt’s own declarative programming language that powers more than one billion devices worldwide.

When you're ready to share your design with developers, just export it. They can pick it up in code format, review it, and start building around it, instead of having to figure out design choices from a static mock-up or PDF file.

Clate AI Assistant for UI Design

With the AI Assistant, you create elements and screens directly on the infinity canvas or within the chat window, so you can continue editing them before moving them to the project files.

Choose your AI model and start crafting designs for your next embedded project. At launch, Clate supports Claude, yet more LLM service options will be added soon.

In addition, Clate also has an in-built MCP server, so you can connect your agents from any MCP-operated applications.​

An Intuitive UX Design Tool for Embedded HMI Projects

Popular design tools are easy to use, but they’re for web and mobile design. Embedded UX tools are for devices, but they force designers into a code editor.

Clate combines the simplicity of the first with the focus of the second.

Built by designers who have worked on embedded HMI applications for years, Clate gives you the intuitive controls and panels you need to craft and edit a user interface for an embedded device.​

Components, Assets, and Project Files

Coming in 2026

In Clate, you can create components from scratch and reuse them as instances across your projects. Select and edit shapes, pick a color, set paddings, anchors, and opacity.

Save the components to your local library, where you can also upload and store visual assets. You can create, edit, and delete different project files simultaneously, and move objects between them.​

Variables and Data Bindings for Real Device Behavior

Coming in 2026

A real-world experience is more than a pretty user interface. It’s functional. As a designer, you want to define which values the UI elements are associated with and how they behave under different conditions.

For example, the temperature meter ranges from 10 to 35 degrees and turns red when it is above 27. Instead of storing this information in a text box in your design files, Clate lets you associate values and behaviors with UI elements, so developers can pick them up directly in the code.​

A mockup of the design system management for Clate, UX design tool for embedded and HMI applications by Qt Group.

Design System Management

Coming in Spring 2027

A change to a component's color shouldn't send you and your team on a scavenger hunt through every design file and line of code it touches.

Clate will have true design system management, on top of component and assets: tokens for color, spacing, and typography, and base components, defined once and reused everywhere in your projects.​

A mockup of the node graph feature in Clate, UX design tool for embedded and HMI applications by Qt Group.

Motion and Interaction Without Code

Coming in Spring 2027

Real-world experiences aren’t static, so Clate treats motion and interaction as part of the design. Screens, states, components, and signals connect visually on a single node graph, without ever writing code.

Animations are built by moving things, not by right-clicking menus: adjust a property while the playhead moves, and the keyframe is added automatically; or hit “record”, interact with objects, and let Clate convert that into keyframes. Developers don't get specs they have to reinterpret, but animations that match the build.​

A mockup of the collaboration capabilities of Clate, UX design tool for embedded and HMI applications by Qt Group.

Real-Time Collaboration

Coming in Spring 2027

Embedded projects are collaborative by nature, so Clate brings your team into the same workspace. See who’s online and what they’re editing in real time. Pin comments directly to the canvas, mention the person who needs to act, and resolve once they do.

Every decision stays attached to the work itself, turning scattered feedback into a clear, searchable record instead of a conversation outside the canvas that you have to piece back together.​

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Clate's Frequently Asked Questions

What is Clate?
Clate is an AI-native UX design tool for crafting the full user experience for embedded and HMI applications, without writing code. Designers work in a familiar visual workspace while Clate generates working QML in the background, so what they hand off is code developers can build on directly.

Who is Clate for?
Clate is for UI/UX designers who work on embedded and HMI applications for medical, industrial automation, and consumer electronics.

Do I need to know code to use Clate?
No, Clate is no-code. You can use the familiar toolbar and the controls in the panels to build your embedded or HMI application. Or you can get creative with Clate AI Assistant. As you work, in the background, Clate matches your design to QML code - Qt’s own declarative programming language that powers more than one billion devices worldwide. That's what you hand off to developers when your design is ready.

Which platforms does Clate run on?
Clate runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Is Clate free during the beta?
Clate is currently in beta and free to download and use during this period.

Does Clate only support QML code and Qt?
At the moment, yes. Clate's output is QML, the declarative language behind Qt user interfaces, so embedded and HMI applications designed in Clate are built and deployed with Qt.

How do I select between Clate, Figma to Qt, and Qt Design Studio?
Clate is for UI/UX, motion, and visual designers who want to own and control the full behavior of embedded and HMI applications, not just the visual mock-ups. Figma to Qt is for those already using Figma and happy with it who are seeking a dedicated conversion tool that delivers predictable, reliable QML code. Qt Design Studio is for technical artists, 3D artists, and front-end developers who need to create advanced 3D user interfaces and are comfortable using code to finalize their work.

Why should I consider Clate and not another design tool?
UI/UX designers working on embedded and HMI applications often use one of two types of tool. Either they use the most popular design tools, which are easy to use but were built for web and mobile design. Or they use niche tools built for embedded UX, which require a deep level of technical knowledge and familiarity with coding. Clate combines the simplicity of the first with the focus of the second.

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