Design views

Qt Design Studio contains views for designing UIs. To open them, select View > Views. The following images present the views that you are likely to use most often while designing UIs.

"Design views"

"The States and Timeline views"

You can move the views anywhere on the screen and save them as workspaces, as instructed in Managing Workspaces.

Summary of the Design views

The following table provides a summary of the design views. For information on MCU support, see Qt Design Studio features on MCU projects.

2D	Design 2D UIs.
3D	Edit a 3D scene.
Assets	Select assets such as images and fonts to use in your application.
Code	View and modify the code generated by the visual editors.
Components	Select preset components and your own components to use in your application.
Connections	Add functionality to the UI by creating connections between components, signals, and component properties.
Content Library	Select material, texture, and environment bundles with assets to use in your application.
Curves	View and modify the animation curve.
Design Tokens	Create design themes.
Effect Composer	Create effect compositions.
File System	View all the files in the current directory.
Material Browser	Create and manage materials and textures.
Navigator	View the composition of the current component file as a tree structure.
Open Documents	View currently open files.
Projects	View a list of the files contained within the open project.
Properties	Modify the properties of the selected component.
Qt Insight	Manage your Qt Insight.
States	Apply states to a component.
Timeline	Animate the properties of components.
Transitions	Make movement between states smooth.
Translations	Handle translations and multi-language support.

User interface 2D

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