Scania Smart Dash

I was part of Afry team in Scania project to design a new infotainment system in a digital dashboard called “Smash Dash” in new Scania vehicles. The work covered the digital user experience and user interface of the system including one touch screen (center interaction display) and one digital dashboard (driver display).

The project is still ongoing and part of the work is still confidential. These are materials that were already released to the public. I will focus mostly on my part of the project.

My Contributions

User experience of the Navigation app
Global interaction patterns of the Smash Dash

My work covered benchmark research, sketches, interaction flows, prototypes, and documentation.

My Role

UX designer

My Contributions

I was part of the navigation team designing the navigation app from scratch in Smart Dash, and an area responsible for the global interaction patterns of the whole Smart Dash.

Software

Figma

Smash Dash opens up new perspectives for truck drivers article — Source: https://www.scania.com/group/en/home/newsroom/press-releases/press-release-detail-page.html/4622335-smart-dash-opens-up-new-perspectives-for-truck-drivers

Read the press release

In the Navigation team, we did benchmark research in vehicles from different brands to see how their navigation app was. Then, we sketched and made user flows of the app from scratch i.e. how users would search for a destination, set up a route, start and manage the route.

One of the biggest challenges was the usability of the app. We didn’t really know if it would be easy for the users to use it, and we couldn’t really test it in the early phase. There were many small pieces connected to each other so we had to design the whole user flow in the app which contained many screens and steps. Then we can take it to the test.

For the area responsible role of the global interaction patterns, I mainly established and defined new guidelines and patterns that were unclear such as content loading behaviours and languages, and refined the existing patterns that were already created by other designers.

Here is an example of the content loading behaviour in Navigation app.

The biggest challenge in this role was to maintain and keep things neat, and carry on the work by myself. The whole system contained many components and apps. Each app had its own purposes and use cases. It was often that there were corner cases that require some tweaks in the guidelines. So the guidelines can accommodate those cases.

Scania Smart Dash

My Contributions

My Role

My Contributions

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