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EU Cyber Resilience Act: Compliance Essentials for Selling Digital Products in Europe
A practical roadmap to help you prepare your products for the new regulatory reality in Europe.
Top 10 Ways to Cut Risk & Accelerate Development
Discover 10 ways early formative testing cuts risk, accelerates development and builds defensible usability evidence from day one.
Medical Device Cybersecurity: A Practical Guide for Compliance and Security
Protect your medtech from evolving cyber threats. Our free guide offers essential insights to help streamline FDA compliance.
Checklist for Cybersecurity Documentation
The FDA now mandates that medical device manufacturers achieve elevated levels of cybersecurity compliance. Streamline the process with our handy cybersecurity documentation checklist.
Tips on Usability, Safety and Compliance: Designing Better Medical Devices
Boston UX, ICS' design studio created this free eBook to explain why it makes sense to join the growing number of medtech companies prioritizing UX design in order to create better, safer products.
Developing Software as a Medical Device
Explore software as a medical device (SaMD), an increasingly important health technology. In this eBook we define SaMD and look at key topics, from compliance to ways to build secure applications for mobile platforms.
Securing the Cloud with AWS
Learn about technologies, best practices and resources to help you secure cloud-based data and shrink your risk. We'll show you proven ways to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your systems and data.
Industrial Controls UI Case Study
Discover how Boston UX improved the user experience for an arc welding device, creating a more intuitive, usable and visually appealing UI and streamlining the workflow — all on an accelerated schedule and tight budget.
Driving Innovation in Medtech Development
As medical devices get more connected and more capable, developing them becomes more complex. We offer actionable advice, effective processes and best practices to follow as you work toward certification.
Creating QML Controls From Scratch
QML provides a powerful and flexible framework for developing user interfaces. We show you how to build 16 bare-bones QML controls to use as a starting point as creating common QML controls can greatly reduce the overall development effort of your project.
A Smarter, Faster Way to Build Embedded Touch Devices
Your product development team can benefit from ICS' rapid-development approach. Read about some of those benefits, including rapid prototyping and the ability to adjust the UX even late in the development cycle.
Create Better, More Profitable Products: The Value of UX Design
Are you investing in UX design? You should. This handy eBook shows you how investing in user experience design can lead to better products and greater profits.
The Qt Developer's Bag of Tricks Part 1
In this two-volume eBook we share the tools the ICS development team finds incredibly useful for Qt developers programming in C++ or QML for embedded, desktop and mobile platforms.
The Qt Developer's Bag of Tricks Part 2
In part two of our two-volume eBook aimed at Qt developers programming in C++ or QML, we look at memory leak detection tools, simulators, debuggers and a variety of other useful tools.
Accelerating Product Innovation with the Right Development Team
With innovation comes risk. Minimizing risk in software product development takes insight gleaned from years on the front lines. ICS CEO Peter Winston lays out steps to get you across the finish line.
The Benefits of UX Design: ICS' UX-First Approach to Device, Web and Desktop Application Design
This whitepaper explores UX, UI, human factors engineering and the many advantages of choosing a development approach that prioritizes UX.
Internet of Things: Using MRAA to Abstract Platform I/O Capabilities
This white paper explains the general usage of the MRAA APIs that can greatly simplify working with various types of devices.
QML for Qt 6.8.2 Quick Reference
Your go-to resource for QML syntax, components, and essentials that speed up Qt development.
Qt OpenGL FrameBuffer Quick Reference
Master framebuffer objects at a glance with key functions, workflows and best practices for OpenGL in Qt.
Qt OpenGL Buffer Quick Reference
A fast-access guide to OpenGL buffer management, helping you move data efficiently and optimize rendering performance.