Welcome to Qt Academy

Delve into the intricacies of crafting user interfaces that resonate well with the intended audience. The course emphasizes understanding users by identifying their primary problems and challenges, alongside reviewing competitive products to grasp how they achieve their objectives. Explore the importance of intuitive and familiar UI patterns through analyzing existing UI solutions, learning not to replicate but to thoughtfully adapt and incorporate successful elements, drawing inspiration from established design systems. Learn how to maintain consistency within UI design by establishing a clear design hierarchy, uniform branding elements, coherent typography, and distinct UI components, all of which contribute to creating a defined and appealing style.

This course was updated in November 2025 to continually improve course content and address feedback from the Qt Community. 

Change Log:

• Updated audio quality in videos based on feedback.

In this course, you will explore the capabilities of Qt AI Assistant, learning how to accelerate your Qt development workflow. Qt AI Assistant is a Qt Creator Extension that, when connected to a Large Language Model (LLM), provides intelligent code completion, expert coding advice, automated code fixes, and generates comprehensive test cases and documentation.

Note: The Qt AI Assistant is available for specific Qt Licenses. It can be used with Qt for Application Development Enterprise, any Qt for Device Creation, any Small Business, or an Education License for Qt Development.

 

This course was updated in November 2025 to continually improve course content.

Change Log:

• Added a section on managing the LLM context window within Qt AI Assistant.

In this course, we explore Qt Group's software development ecosystem and quality assurance tools. Understanding these products will help you choose the right tools for your development projects, whether you're building desktop applications, mobile apps, embedded systems, or connected devices.

This course is for anyone working with or evaluating Qt Group's products, including:

• Software developers exploring Qt's development tools.

• UI and UX designers exploring Qt Design Tools.

• Quality engineers implementing testing strategies.

• Technical decision-makers evaluating Qt solutions.

This course was updated in November 2025 to continually improve course content and address feedback. 

Change Log:

• Improved overview of Qt Group Products, licensing, and use cases.
• Simplified language for clarity and improved decision overview tables.
• Updated Course theming. 

In this course, you will launch the Qt Creator IDE for the first time, go through its basic views, and create a new project that you can use to try out some of the basic functionalities.

This course is for anyone interested in writing software with Qt Creator. To get the most out of this course, you should have some development experience and understand the basic software development concepts. You don't need any previous knowledge of Qt.

This course was updated in February 2025 to continually improve course content and address feedback from the Qt Community. 

Change Log:

• Fixed links at end of the course
• Added zoom to videos so UI elements are easier to read
• Added additional links at end of course to topics identified in feedback

In this course, we'll install Qt using the Qt Online Installer. 

This course is for anyone interested in using Qt who is at the beginning of their journey. It covers both commercial and open-source Qt installations.

This course was updated in July 2025 to continually improve course content and address feedback from the Qt Community. 

Change Log:

• Improved installation guide with development environment-specific guidance. 
• Improved layout and flow of information for download and installation.
• Rearanged links in places so reading is easier.
• Updated some imagery

Our course, Getting Started with Qt Design Studio, is the second module in our FYI Frontend Learning Track, Getting Started With UI Design.

In it, you will learn about:

• What Design Studio is and why it is a powerful tool supporting the collaboration of designers and developers 
• How to launch the Qt Design Studio for the first time, go through its basic views, and create a new project that you can use to try out some of the basic functionalities