AI enabled, declarative language UI development with live preview on Windows, Linux, and macOS development machines, or directly on target hardware, with production code generated by Altia DeepScreen.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., October 27, 2026. Altia, a leader in embedded UI development tools, today opened early access to Altia BluePrint, a faster way to build and refine embedded user interfaces with AI. Describe the screen you want and BluePrint builds it. Change it and the change appears immediately in the BluePrint Viewer: a live rendering application which runs on a Windows, Linux, or macOS development PC, as well as on target hardware.
Most of the time in embedded UI development is expended in iteration: adjusting layouts, refining behavior, and checking how each change looks on the real display. BluePrint shortens that loop to the time it takes to describe a change. Because BluePrint defines a UI as a readable description rather than an editor project, AI can write and revise it reliably, so each round of changes is a quick instruction instead of a rebuild.
โThe thing that slows embedded UI down isnโt building the first screen. Itโs the hundred rounds of changes after it,โ said Jim Mikola, VP of Engineering at Altia. โWith BluePrint, you describe a change and itโs on screen almost immediately, on your desktop or on the actual hardware. And because DeepScreen still generates the production code our customers already ship, none of that speed comes at the expense of what goes into the product.โ
Describe. Display. Deploy.
Describe. Tell AI the screen you want, or the change you want, and it writes the BluePrint. Engineers move faster, and a systems engineer or product owner who has never opened a GUI editor can contribute directly, producing a real UI rather than a mockup someone has to rebuild.
Display. See every change the moment you make it. The BluePrint Viewer runs on Windows, Linux and macOS development machines, and the UI can also be edited live while it runs on target hardware, so teams see how a change actually looks on the display that will ship.
Deploy. BluePrint feeds Altia DeepScreen, the same code generator behind Altia user interfaces in production today. The generated code contains no AI-written content, keeping performance predictable and validation straightforward for safety- and mission-critical applications.
Built for How Engineering Teams Already Work
BluePrint is authored in Visual Studio Code using the Altia BluePrint Extension and fits the workflows software teams already use, including code review, branching and merging. Several engineers can work in the same interface at once, and components are defined once and reused across screens, variants and product lines.
A Second Way In, One Path to Production
BluePrint sits alongside Altia Design rather than replacing it. Altia Design remains the right tool for work that is shaped visually and iterated on screen. BluePrint suits programs owned by software engineers, teams that want to iterate quickly with AI and organizations that want AI contributing to UI โ but not writing production embedded code. Both Altia Design and Altia BluePrint feed DeepScreen.
Early Access
Altia BluePrint is in use today with a global automaker, and Altia is now working directly with a limited number of additional teams through early access. To explore BluePrint, contact [email protected] or download the Altia BluePrint Extension today from the Visual Studio Marketplace: Altia BluePrint – Visual Studio Marketplace
About Altia
Altia provides embedded GUI and HMI development tools โ including Altia Design, BluePrint, CloudWare and DeepScreen โ deployed across more than 100 million devices in automotive, medical, industrial and consumer electronics. Altia’s toolchain produces deterministic C code with no runtime in deployed devices and supports safety certifiability requirements including MISRA, ASPICE and ISO standards. Learn more at www.altia.com.