BOWL®
No-code software for designers and developers to prototype their user experience
Start with a modular hardware and software kit with all Human Machine Interface functionalities
Create an interactive prototype using BOWL®
Experience your future product through test and play
Enhance the experience with a virtual twin or driving simulator
Build your experience
step by step
Manage your projects
Start to create an experience for a PoC, demonstrator, concept car, or user test
Select your components
Define your future product with hardware devices and software functions
Define your user journey
Create a scenario and generate your product user experience
Describe your controllers
Refine and improve all logic of the product experience
Configure your components
Integrate new devices, define and set associated parameters
Your experience is ready to test !
Pre-integrated technology
A collection of functional technologies that can be used to create smart cockpit experiences. Use only the components you need.
Tech ecosystem
Become the next best-in-class technology to be included in the
Automotive Component Catalog.
BOWL® An open platform for Innovation
BOWL® provides a large selection of software connectors to integrate various assets
Benefits of BOWL®
Develop product experience with no code interface
Bridge design and develop teams
Connect with professional tools – Figma, MBSE programs
Generate functional user interface
Deploy with generated embedded software
Save time with a ready-to-use technology ecosystem
BOWL® Software Suite Overview
Introduction
Turning systems (complex or not) into smart products is a matter of a perfect and nice orchestration between the user(s) interactions and the multiple functions to create a unique user experience.
The goal is to design an emotional link between the human(s) and the machine(s) and to establish a natural relationship between an organic system and a technical one.
When the question comes to specify what a user can feel in front of a system, and how it perceives its usage, difficulties appear.
How to imagine and specify the interaction with a complex system without prototyping it, without experiencing it thru short timeframe cycles?
When the issue is to define the user experience, who can’t be best placed than a UX Designer to imagine and describe the Customer journey.
When it becomes a matter of execution of this Customer journey, then the limits of the traditional approach are reached: how to turn ideas and thoughts into technical specifications? How to speed up a UX driven project execution and avoid the tunnel effect?
Based on a practical and successful approach of UX driven projects, epicnpoc has developed BOWL®, a software suite than captures the company know-how by empowering UX designers and software engineers, allowing them to collaborate and dramatically enhance the way innovation projects are run.
What BOWL® is
BOWL® is a process and a software product developed by epicnpoc to create Human Machine Interfaces for complex environments.
Its purpose is to break down the complexity into re-usable pieces (the components) that are interacting with each other and enable non-software people to understand how to specify their interactions with a no-code/low-code approach to shrink the development phase and maximize the validation one with real users.
BOWL® enables non-software people to turn their ideas into software with a no-code tool and empower these users to generate technical specifications if software development is required.
BOWL® insures a permanent and perfect link between the 2 universes: the UX/UI and the technical team.
With its no-code capability, BOWL® empowers non-software users to generate and deploy software on a large set of hardware targets with a simple press button function.
It is an open platform that connects the dots between humans providing a nice translation between people from various horizons (tech and non-tech) and the tools they use thanks to connectors that make them compatible.
It is an integration platform to speed up the team creativity and the project execution.
What BOWL® is not
BOWL® is not a graphical environment, a UI tool, a development environment nor a Model-based System Engineering tool.
It is a software platform that integrates the artifact of these tools to create a software prototype that can be validated.
BOWL® is not a cloud-based software that uses Internet resources in a non-responsible manner, it is a frugal software solution that run on your computer(s) or embedded platforms(s) and that does not capture and share your secrets with the others.
How is BOWL® Software Suite released?
BOWL® is released as an on-premise app that can be installed on a Windows or Linux PC.
The software is divided into 2 parts:
- The BOWL® Factory that hosts BOWL® Studio to enable users to define and test their experiences
- The BOWL® Runtime that hosts and execute the software generated by the BOWL® Factory
How to use BOWL® Software Suite?
BOWL® proposes to organize your projects into 3 phases:
- Jumpstart: define your Customer journey thanks to the BOWL® Studio using a catalog of predefined functions you can rely on to specify and test your prototype
- Develop: Generate the various interfaces, APIs and FMUs that will enable the tech teams to develop what your project is requiring
- Experience: Generate the software and validate it with users
BOWL® enables you to cycle on these 3 phases keeping the consistency between UX/UI requirements and technical developments.
What can I do with BOWL® Software Suite?
BOWL® enables you to generate the software that will synchronize the various functions of your systems and that will support the user experience as it has been specified.
With BOWL®, you never start from scratch your new projects: you re-use function blocks provided by epicnpoc and partners or from your previous projects. Make your prototyping sustainable.
How is BOWL® Software Suite different from the other tools?
While most of the existing tools are specialized in a given domain (GUI, wireframing, code development, models…), BOWL® creates the symbiose between them and integrates the artifacts of a large panel of existing and reference tools (edited by Figma, Unity, Kanzi, Altia, Qt, Matlab, Dassault Systèmes…).
To save your time, it can generate your GUIs based on Web React or Unity graphical environments and create multi-modal input methods.
BOWL® has been designed to create your unique experience for all the users interacting with your systems.
Is BOWL® Software Suite dedicated to Automotive domain?
The concepts manipulated by BOWL® are agnostic from the application domain you want to address. Today some of functional components provided with BOWL® are Automotive oriented (vehicle simulation, Driver Monitoring System from Neonode…) while most of them are suitable for any kind of application domain (audio/video management, Script reco from MyScript, User manager…).
Can I transition my prototypes to production?
Once you have created your prototypes with BOWL® Software Suite, you can create the related SYSML specifications to be integrated in a MBSE tool such as Catia Magic from Dassault Systèmes.
How can I become an Experience Maker?
Simply contact us at contact@epicnpoc.com or use the form on our Web site and provide us your professional information as well as an explanation on why you would be interested in using BOWL® Software Suite.